The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-02-01
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The Schools.

The Schools. Y
The schools cu.nmenced Monday
with an enrolment in both OF ITO.
The upper department. is ia charge OF
Rev. II. w. Troy, instead Of Mr..
Mack, who came and SAW and weat-
IN" is not just like Csesar.) Mr.. Troy
is doing most excellent work.. and
under his supervision the schools
will be i success. The
enrolment in his department.
is oo. In the primary department,
which is under Mrs. Whitney
charge. there are enrolled 53.
In b0tK schools there are more than
one teacher can do justice to-,
and there are less than
three fourths of the scholars in at
tendance, as the enrolment at the
last term in the two schools was l67.
There being ~ in the higher and %
in the primary, with M average 1T.
tendance of about 50 in each. now it
will be readily seen that the teachers
cannot do justice to SO great num-
Der. 1t is needless to say, perhaps,
is it is we'll known that IS is all that
should be in the primary department.,
where each scholar needs tho atten-
ton of the teacher much more than
in the higher grades.
The board could not open another
school because there is no room in
which it could be placed. The peo-
ple must consider this matter and
decide what to do, because it is clear
that the schools have outgrown the
she'll in which they are at present
held. Measures should be at once
taken to secure new site for i new
school house of sufficient capacity to
accommodate the scholars now in the
city, and to make provision for the
increase which is sure to come.
In conclusion, we urge the parents
and guardians OF the pupils to visit
the schools and see what is needed,
and also to encourage both teachers
and scholars in their efforts, so that
the highest good may be secured.
We clip the following from the
Ada Alert" which we trust all will
read and take home to themselves it's
suggestions:
eve think the world would be fall
IS interesting for both teachers and
pupils. if parents would visit the
school. The Indifference Of parents
to the educational interests of their
children would be astonishing if it..
were not so universal. It is true
some noble exceptions are found, but
the majority even of intelligent, res
pectable parents seem to be so pro-
absorbed in making money,
" other necessary cares, that the
true ends of life are lost sight of in
raising their children. See that mo-
her. She can goout to the nest two
or three times II day to see whether
any of the goslings have made their
appearance, and after they are hatch
ed she can find time to feed them fire.
quently, watch them carefully, and
nurse them tenderly. Why! Be-
cause there is money in them. But
what does the same mother know alb.
out her children's operations IN
school! She does not know whether
they are learning virtue and knowl-
edge, or hate them, whether by
school influence their personal ha bits
are improving or deteriorating, whe-
Their their teacher is inspiring them
with u love for industry and probity,
or training them by bad management
to hatred of labor and honest exer-
ton. How can she know! She new.
or visits the, school, nor converses
with the .teacller, nor with her child
rem abont the school, NM ess it is to
listen to their complaints of the teach
er and their accounts Of their own
mischief and wickedness at the teach
,er's expense. The father is greatly
interested in his new breed Of pigs
and never wearies in talking of their
superiority in milking tile most pork
from the least corn He. can spend
any amount of time, in leaning over
the sty, and seems to enjoy the crun.
ching Of. the corn as much AS the pigs
do II any pig loses its appetite, lie
knows it; if any pig is missing at
feeding time he knows it and hunts
him up. lie does not trust his pre-
cious pig to any hired man. But his
children may go to school or not. 60;
they may lie Improving their time or
wasting it. It seldom enters his
head to know whether the teacher lis
i f:ithful workman on q sllirk; he is
too much absorbed in Ills pigs and
colts, corn field and wheat crops, high,
prices and low taxes. We shall coll-