The true northerner., 1880-09-03
WHOLE NO. 1928.

Teachers should prepare for school by care
f1l and systematic planning OF their school,
room work in instruction and discipline, in ey-
erything pertaining to school-room duties. The
Furniture, pictures, notices and brackets shonld
all be arranged, and if the same were in the
room last year care should be taken that their
positions are changed, that all may appear new
to the children. II the room is destitute OF or
namentatlon, proceed at once to decorate the
the walls with notices. pictures ana brackets.
Yes, / know they Will cost something. but
they will pay big interest on the investment.
will mention only one more preparation for
the teacher, and a very important on it is, too ::
Make a collection of reading matter, consisting
OF papers, magazines, old readers, histories.
ap-books-anything containing pure thouCht
and sentment-and place them where. at stated
times after lessons are committed. the pupils
can have access to them. This can be done
without any great cost or effort and will prove
channel through which may come great deal
OF good.
L write thus unto you, Oh, We teachers be-
cause you are TO undertake great work.
work requiring the most careful and praverfuI
preparation which Is many, many times neg
lected
Parents should get ready for school" hv get
ting the children home from their cousjns' and
their uncles' and their aunts' where thew have
been to spend their vacation BY getting their
own work IN such shape that they can start the
children off 10 school at the first ding, dong of
the bell or the rap-a-tap-tap OF the stick upop
the window See to it that the children have
their books all picked up" properly covered
with cloth or stout paper and packed MP ready
for start" Don't forget to furnish them with
good lead pencil, good slate pencil and n
sponge just think of thirty or fifty children
splitting on their states and mopping il off with
their hands or coat tails or aprons. Ugh Think
OF 1t, L say, and YOU sill not forget the sponge.
II the children are in the grammar grades don't
by any means forget dictonary--can get a
good one for 30 or 90 cents-tbey need that as
much or more than spelling book.
Lastly, finish your preparation by resolu-
tIon SO drm that not even the fear Of death can
drive you from II, that yoE will work with the
teacher for the good of your children under all
circumstances, and that you Will visit the school
once every month OF the school year.
L write thus unto you. Oh, ye parents be-
cause you pay your money ard must take your
chances in the profit of the investment, and by
following out these suggestions you can greatly
increase that profit, but by neglect OF them
you often become losers by the investment.
Children are to get ready for school" by do
ing all they can in getting their books, siates,
&C., in readiness and by a careful review OF the
points in which they failed to DO the best work
last year and by firm resolutions to be regular
in attendance, clean and neat in attire, kind and
courteous in department toward teachsr and
schoolmate, patient, careful, thorough, self-r
liant and prompt.
write thus to you, OBJ, ye children because
all these other preparations are made for your
good, and 1t IS for your good that you make the
best possible use of them,
W.P. STOCKING.
Dowagiac, Aug. 25, 1880.