Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-10
THE CARSON DISTRICT SCHOOL.

| TOT ndily HlOHluS past IL ocoh o"I wv
painfully evident that the Carson Distric
School has fallen short of the desired stand
ard of excellence and efficiency. This SHOULD
not be so, forasmuch as this is the seconc
county in the State in point of school goins
population. Carson is admittedly the fur
thest advanced in regard of culture of any
city in Nevada, and We pay tax enough and
big salaries enough to enttle US to the very
best that can be had
A few nights since the new Board of Trus-
tees for this District met and organized. 1t
is reported to us by one who was present in
an official capacity, that the Board, consist
ing of Jacob Linn, Marshall Robinson and
Mr.. Kelly, passed a resolution retaining the
present complement of teachers flor the term,
We suppose) and another, giving a two
months leave of absence to Mr.. Howe, the
gentleman who, for so many years, has been
| the Principal of our District School, and who
| now is one of the members of the Assembly
from this County.
We dislike very much to criticise the acts
of one who has, during all the years of his
residence among us, borne himself with such
singular rectitude of conduct and uniform
exemplariness of demeanOr as Mr.. Howe, but
we are dealing with this subject in its broader
aspects, and may not be restrained by feel
ings of personal regard. 1t is evident that
the time has come when our District School
should be placed upon much higher plane
than heretofore. The advances made by our
people in all respects-in respect of morals,
erally-demand corresponding advance in
our educational facilities. OF course it is
neither our province nor purpose to say ust
what should be done in this regard; but that
We should advance our principal school up
out of its present stand-still condition is only
too apparent. We told by competent
Judges that the school is not as satisfactory
now, not under as good discipline, not as eff
fective in promoting the cause for which it
is maintained as it was three or four years
ago. As we said the other day, the system |
is all wrong to begin with, while the impol- |
icy of retaining, under that very vicious sys
tenn, Principal who has not been able to
improve upon his earlier administration is |
only too apparent.
Some of the teachers, (all LADIES', of the |
subordinate departments are, no doubt, most !
excellent officers, in the places to which they |
are assigned. But if much current report
be true there are others who are by no means
so competent We hear altogether
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the rooms have been thinned out in a most
deplorable way. From too many quarters we
hear of children withdrawn from the public
and sent to private schools, not from a pref
erence for the latter or too nice notion of
the higher tone of the private institution but
because of the alleged inefficiency of certain
persons employed as teachers This, If it be
true, is a lamentable condition of things, and
one which demands instant correction
We shall never have a good school here, of
my kind, so long as the subordinate teachers
eel independent of the Principal or under
he immediate protection of one or more of {
he Trustees; we shall never have a school
worthy the name while men seek the Office $
u I
(regardess of quahfication) into the I
and our school will not only be t
t a standstill but be on retrograde unless c
re overhaul it, with an unsparing hand, and I
Muse into its system, regime and personelle
ONE entirely new materials. Carson and its
icinage and laudable ambitions demand
omething better than grammar school and,
-ithin its housing half dozen grades which
re all, practically, only so many primary de
artments The public service should be the
rst consideration, and not the amiabiliUy or
lisfortunes of any man woman who com q
lends herself to this Trustee or awakens the
displaced sympathy of the other, What we =
ant, and what is imperatively demanded, is OF
lie best our money can procure and the a a
mes demand.
IADAME RENTZ'S FEMALE MIN
STRELS