Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-03-12
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tCOhMUNICATED.J 1
II Wilmington public school teach.
ers are not . much abused class Of
human beings they are, to say ths least,
very much misrepresented and very
oftan untustly fauIted.
Were half the effort made by parents
and others to eoOpera with teachers
rs 10 msnifested in burryipg TO the
press with even . shadow OF . teachers
mistake, there would be q more studi
Gus and more polite class Of pupils in
our schools 60 day.
Parents are too ready to think their
children would do nething that is not
strictly in accordance with the rules OF
our bost regulated schools.
La child late getting home, the
teacher Is blamed. W course she took
delight In keeping him In. She was
not the least hungry at twelve O'Clock 4
had nothing else To do !. therefore It was
such . pleasure 70 detsin . child for
awhile ;.queer she did not keep good
one In. That 10 about what IL amounted
to In the mind of . parent. Their child
misbehave Impossibles He is 70 good at
homo. .-,r
Perhaps be was detained for lessons.
On, no ! he 10 lust ~ smart as the next
door neighbours hoy, yet he Is home
while the Intellectual capacity Of each
child 10 the came, did that parent ever
think to inquire a. to the amount Of
studying the detained pupil had done,
either at home or at school d d he
ever spend twenty or thirsy minutes in
the school room listening 10 the recita-
tjons Of the child :? No but he goes to
the school and makes AZ much distur-
bapco as be can aboat keeping his
child In, then he goes home abusing the
teacher and the boy comes back, feei-
ing we'll assund that the teach or should
sit ut his feet and be tanght
aThen the ond comes, the grand finale,
the examination. There is more IN pc
Ipromoted why He blames tho
lteacher, aud concludes II he gets out of
IschoOl he will be all right Then he puts
J him In another /; but somehow be still
Iornamenfs the foot Of the class, OF play y
ar bles around the corner. because he
Was late. Could anything be more ab
lsurd than the assert ions OF Good Sen se
(whata misnomerI In the Morning z
| News
He objects to Punishment for tardy
pupils. No doubt be has seen tho III
playing marbles, and giving as the rea-
son for their absence frt m schO0l got
l tab We uAVe httu Dlu 10 inc bSID6.
II ID young heart so bent ON play ing
these same mar bles, that he says 10 hi,
3 companions, there's the last bell" leI
us be late," and he plays on for The ex
8 phsss purpose Cf being too late fol
school, and thus obtain q mornings
play.
In another case he starts to school
u lwell be knows at just what time tn,
}. bell will ring, still he fingers, he meet
u u few more scholars and ihey all pla!
o elawhile till at last, when the school u
kreached, they all 60 tramping in late
Is punishment just or upjusl
Had the child been unavoidab}y de
z ltained aud brought sach an excuse from
y home, no punisbLne would have bae
inflicted. But GOOD Sense" does nc
n discriminate.
dI Then, too, we would ask, " there to b
La general stay at home by the pupil,
{, lessons lost that cannot be made Ut
" for one days instruction will not u
d for the next. Each day brings som,
tt thing new /; what is lost TO day cannt
n be- regained tomorrow. OF course An
le trouble about regaining seat does Ut
make up lost lessons but it Goes ten
I. to lessen the number of absent marx
y on the ro H.
sr Tnen again We would like to hsv
ii some grand open sesame to the door {
10 q scholars am bition.
Has he been shown the advantage {
N study? Yes.
O. Has he been persuaded and coaxed
10 Yes. Has he been shown how to stud
and the difficult parts explained Ysi
r. He has been coaxed, persuaded, a.
r. vised, helped, told of all sorts OF wor
,nl dertul things Le might do, we're he |
ltry-yet he failed yester, ay, he fai
to-day, and the teacher iu very despai
and in order to esrape such state {
or affairs to morrow keeps him in to-nigl
III 10 study to.morrow's lessons, when 10
n. Rome howls" aud all sorts of III
H. charitable names are applied to tt
ic teacher. 1 ask does she deserve 1t ? ID
ns you suppose 1t was for her own pleasul
On she stayed while the child studied
or was 1t to her advantage that hesh oul
Is. know tho lesson
10. We would just like Good Sense o
pu the author of some of these wonderir
to editorials that appear so often condemn
re ing the teacher to suggest 3 remedy, {
nd give some method by which an indoleI
Tx child can be made 10 study. And 1t
r the indolent ones who are detain ed an
he not those who try. The scholars wi
on work, and WHO are attentive 10 the
tic Lesson are not they who give the teac
.te ers tronble, and there il no teacher wi
/ a for spite would detain pupil or b
Ia. cause of any personal dislike. Paren
talloS their children 10 tell them a
lsorls of stories about the way in whit
they are trea.-l al school, and w,,..,o
Investigating the affair start out on
. long harsngue shout the "spitef
teacher"
,S.l The Every Evening does not ook fl
,se perfection, yet IL thinks q Chi Id shou
no do nearly about as he pleases. We a
"A know how shocked ths editor of thi
lin sheet would be to enter school rool
ia and find fifty-fou children loiling O
g. their desks, scrapinS their feet ou VI
floor, tiirn,ng ai0II3 ..ahing, and doin
list of such acts that ch'1ufen WI
do limo restraint be imposed upon theI
=. Tno . ever rxpeots his pupiis 10 81,
70, @ the same position al the tune, puI
''ww degree Of ord er must be maintainea
,EI We think, could the \ Use ones W
no make our laws, the writ.rA VI ,'amr;
w. anti i-teacher articles, and tho ,sar;,
parents who condemn without A,a
both sides Of the stories, and "
dsrlings learn at the public shriL
~ have ON the order and advancement O
~ affair more careful consideration.
d, detains scholar. If T. dons @ for the Sa, Ss,
eft Of that scholar the pupils must al
tain a certain per cent. to obtain a prt
motion II they do not reach ihi
'te per cent. the teacher is censured theri
81, fore In her audeavor IN odvapca tb