The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-06
NOTES ON RDToATIoN.

TaE Massachusetts State Normal School
at Salem now has 240 students.
The cost per capita Of public school IN
stfuetion In Portland, Ore, Is said 70 De
81 SO.
Tur Boston School Board is about to
elect six Supervisors instead oil iour, as
was proposed.
CALIFORNIA now has in her treasury
l,27l, 1855 05 school money, subject to ap-
portionment.
THI Wisconsin Legislature has ordered
the purchase OF 600 Of Webster'B Una
bridged Dictionaries for the public schools.
TIE San Francisco School Board has In
yited divers citizens, who petitioned for
the adoption Of the Quincy system in their
city, to meet the board for the purpose OF
mutual conference in regard to the mat
ter.
IT is stated that the interior towns and
counties OF California pay only, as q rule,
for actual time employ ed in teaching.
while the San Francisco teachers are paid
their salaries regularly during their two
months vacation.
The Rochester primary teachers are dis
satisfied with the new rule requiring them
10 stay an hour every day after their regu.
lar work Is done to drill in reading and
rhetoric pupils OF the higher grades. The
Board has, however, determined to try the
plan still longer.
IT ia proposed to add chair OF the
Theory and Practice Of Teaching to the
Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical
College, and thus make 1t normal school.
The CGurir.JOUrHal mentions that the
teachers in many districts and counties Of
the State are ignorant and incapable.
The College Of Agriculture Of the Cali.
fornia University will send out five or six
graduates next term. Professor Hilgard
asks for experimental stations cooperating
with the University, these stations to be
placed in different climatic regions Of the
State to determine the needs OF Califor-
MAS varied climate.
TIE Superintendent Of the Sacramento
schools has complained to the Board oi
Education that there seems to be dispo-
sition among some OF the teachers 10
ignore the Interests OF those children
whose promotion becomes matter oil
doubt, to the end that they may have the
credit OF promoting the largest possible
number OF percentage; and that they are
unwilling, in fact much opposed, to re-
ceiying into their classes children whom
thew think it would be difficult to pro
mote, and are disposed to drop without
due consideration Of the child's interests
He asks, as cure, for semi.annual exami'
nations for promotions. He coniplaint
also that some Of the teachers apply such
unpleasant epithets as Ounce" and "iool
to their pupils, and that there have beer
cases where pupils have been forced e
leave school because they were unable t
endure the bitter and scathing sarcasm O.
the teacher. The board passed resolu'
ton tacitly forbidding teachers TO use cpl
thets to pupils.
In regard TO Colonel Parker and hi
work, the Boston Transcript very justly
says: 1.-THE Quincy System Of public
school instruction, as 1t has come, not IN
naturally yet somewhat inaccurately, L
be called, having passed through certain
period OF abuse as an innovating gimcrack
| Is now being flouted by the same critic
who sneered at 1t as a novelty, as an ole
story that everybody knows and practicet
years aSO. ~ ID Iuutl tLat Jul ouPAaSoh
Americanism has been aroused to com
prehension OF the truth that our common
schools are not ideal perfection, anc
enough in their very existence to make th,
effete monarchies howl with dismay. Ate
this idea, well sown and watered by the yer,
wrath OF the old.iashionsd teachers ant
superintendent, disturbed in their com
Portable routine against the innovato
who proposes to make the teachers do
good share Of the work now put off upol
the children, has got abroad, then will
come the general demand for the ne'
schoolmaster, new school.marm, and tn,
new style Of teaching, and then, as then
as the New York Tribune says, away &,
all the cut-and-dried machine superintend
ents, all the young rote-teachers who pou
out OF divers normal schools, all the fool
ish girls who, half trained and incapable
presume to teach country schools 70
pocket-money.'"