River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-10-26
Educational.
M. =. BAKER. A. R., Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
KEEP the stove-hearth clean.


Study the system of numbering
ranges andtownships.
CIR a box of colored crayons, they
are useful in nap-drawing.
ArEAcHER with uncombed hair is a
bad example before pupils.
We return thanks to our numerous
correspondents. Continue.
FRANK NYE teaches in the stone
| school-hoase in Kinnickinnic.
TIE Utah district, Trimbelle, has
| adopted a list of books and will soon
have uniformity. They will purchase
enough to furnish the school.
MEssRs. FIcK AMI HOLMAN who have
been attending school in this place,
have now left. The former on ac-
count of i'll health, the latter to teach
school.
Those small Keys to the Spencerian
System of penmanship can be OBJ
tanned through the Levings Sisters,
River Falls. Every teacher should
have one.
For a reference book for the COnsti-
tuition of the U. s., get Townsend's
Civil Government. For the COnstitu-
ton of Wisconsin, get A. o. Wright's
Analysis of the Constitution of Wis.
The first, costs about $3.50, the Sec
Ond 81, we believe.
WE have mailed all certificates and
standings. The fact that some papers
weren0tnumbered at all, and some were
inscribed so dimly that they were IL
legible, renders mistakes necessary.
We will cheerfully make any correc-
lions, or supply any omissions on re-
ceipt of card giving particulars.
The exercises of the Students Liter
airy Society in this place on Friday
last were very interesting. The So
ciety seems to be well conducted and
the spirit among its members is ex-
cellent. we learn from the programme
that the question to be discussed, Oct.
9th, is--Resoired, that no State has
right TO withdraw from the Union.
Leaders Oh debate, Messrs. Gray and
Southworth. OBSERVER.
Mss DELLA HARRIS teaches in het
Utah or Parksville district, Trimbelle.
G;nco ,yo nv raouoot of +bo boor1 roo
commended her as person suitable
for the school, the following from one
OF the district, in a private letter, is
quite pleasant news. but we are not
surprised
1--WE are well pleased with her. She |
takes hold of the work as though she |
it,
a VERY good plan to follow in teach
ing composition writing, is the follow
ing
Assign a topic, n broad one, amuse-
ments, for example, give the pupils |
from Is to % minutes to write upon
states their ideas of some branch of |
the subject then call on them to rise
and read what they have written.
Practice this exercise twice or three
times per week, and at the close of the
term you will be surprised at the
facility with which they will compose.
Try it.
THERE is something very pleasing to
the cultivated eye, in the groups of
pictures and stands of plants in rooms
?, Band hin the Prescott school. They
take away all the stiff, scEOol-room
look and make them home-like. II.
IT is commonly supposed that con-
tract, signed by two members of the
school board, is binding on the teach
er and district. But such is not the
case, unless the action has been pre-
coded by a meeting of the board. At
least two members of the board must
be present, and all must have been
notified at least u hours before the
The consent of all the members of /
the board to the employment of a |
teacher does not render the bargain |
legal, if given separately. A law pass
ed by asking the consent of the legis- |
lature ut their homes, would not be |
valid. No more, Il like action of the |
school board. From the school code
we extract -
s'The decision of a majority of a
meeting properly called is the deci-
sion of the board; but the decision
of majority, or even all three, under
other circumstances, is not the decis-
ion of the board. The law suppOSes
that majority may be convinced by
minority, and change its determine
ton. The powers conferred by law upon
the district board, must be exercised
by the board, meeting and celebrating
at the same time and place, and not
by one or two forming determine
ton and obtaining the assent of the
absent.
That most boards do not live
up to this part of the law we are
aware. Those teachers who contract
by seeing the members of the board 1T
Their ONES, ana getting their consent
do so at their peril, and if there is
objection to them, they are liable to
be displaced.
Bus we believe that if the teacher
has finished school with no objec-
ton from any one he could collect his
pay. At least. the law in other cases
of hired help. seems to point that way.
But il the school has progressed a
month or two. and objection is made,
the teacher would probably lose both
his place and pay for time already
spent. One case of the latter kind