River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-03-22
Educationa1.
III. =. BAKER, A. B.. Editor.
COUNTY SUPERIxTREDENT.)

II
BE sure to get legal contract fol
your summer schools. 1t should be
in writing.
WE shall expect a term report in adj
dition to the last months report
Don't forget it.
EVERY teacher should read some first.
class weekly paper, besides local edu'
cational journals.
THERE will be a meeting of the Pierce
County Teachers Association at Ellis.
worth, Saturday. March. 81.
SUPT. CHAPMAN, of st. Croix, holds an
examination at New Centerville, March
Both and 21st: at Hudson, in the Second
Ward School-House, April Sd and 4th.
AND now district complains to us
that a young lady's school suffers be-
cause she is too wild and spends too
many of her evenings at parties. She
is likely to have a successor. Sensi-
BILE.
THE article upon REGULATIONS in a
late number of the ". Il. Journal of
Education, by Hiram Orcutt, will be
worth six months subscription to any
teacher. Z. w. Bicknell, Boston,
Mass.
o. WARREN, of district No. 6, Maiden
Rock, sends us a report of an exami-
nation, the high standing of which
shows thorough class work, especially
in arithmetic. His school is in good
working order. They have escaped
the spelling-school mania.
@. Do you consider spelling-schools
profitable? j.
A. Not very-as an educational
agency. But as an amusement they
have everything to recommend them.
Skill, not chance, wins. Mental and
social elements are well blended--as
in all unquestionable amusements.
To avoid private examinations we
have appointed one at Ellsworth, so
late that it must meet the wants of
those who for any reasons, good or
poor, cannot attend those in March.
A large majority of those who avoid
public examinations, do so from sim
lister motives, and hence our course.
C. II. CHAPMAN, of Vernon county,
who reigned supreme in district No.
4, Ellsworth, was obliged to close his
school on account of his mother, who
is dangerously sick with typhoid
fever, cutting the term short about
two weeks. Mr. Chapman is an excel
lent teacher and we regret his depart
ure. He thinks Pierce county is do
ing a great work in education. X.
WE found Mrs. Maxgood, who teach
es in her district, in Gilman, had OBJ
iect lessons, written examinations and
map-drawing of superior excellency,
although her school is primary. Let
us hear no other excuse for their
absence in any school hereafter. than
81 do not like to work, even when the
interests of my school demand it, un-
less trouble will follow my ldleness."
TEACHERS ORGANIzATIoNs.-It seems
as if it wonld be advantageous to the
educational interests of Wisconsin if
teachers organization was formed in
each county, to which only those well
qualified to instruct the young, could
gain admittance, and to which dis
tricts desiring good teachers, and will
ing to pay a fair price for instruction
rendered, could apply for teachers,
feeling confident that only such in
structors would be recommended to
them as they desired. Thus mutual
respect and confidence would be es-
tablished between teachers and dis
tricts. Below re give an argument
for higher grade of teachers in our
state, by giving a few statistics viz,
the number of certificates held in
wisconsin at present: First grade,
2I7; second grade, 624; third grade.
8,05l. Total number issued, 1892. r.