Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-11-04
Acted Wisely.

The Audubon county board OF super
visors In common with those ofover eighty
COMMITTEES IN the state are entitled to the
heartiest commentator of the pcoPic for
the action they have taken TO remedy tie
haphazard work, and the lack Of system
and graduation which has always been the
bane OF our country schools Heretofore
no course OF study or uniform system had
been adapted by the school board, each
district followed different plan from any
other, teachers were continually changing,
and each one began her work wholly in
the lark us to the plans and aims OF her
predecessor. By the time each new teacher
got her predecessor plans upset and her
own fairly started and coniormed to, the
term dew TO a close, when she left the
school without scroll OF record for the
guidance oil her successor. All this irreg.
ular, unsy stematic and fruitess work will
now be changed. The action of the board
OF supervisors at their last session remedies
this difficulty. They unanimously author
lied Superintendent Willcutt to procure
for each school in the county, copy of
Welchs Classification Register which con.
tains graded course OF study for common
schools, and instead Of each teacher vast.
ing the first "week or two to get the run OF
things" II shows succeeding teachers the
work Of each pupil, the studies he is pur.
suing, his complete standing with reference
to the course Of study and just what work
has been done by each class, so that the
proceeding teachers work can be taken
up the first day OF the term and carried
forward until the course is completed and
diploma Of graduation granted, which will
admit the pupil into certain classes in the
high school without further examina' ion.
To insure tho keeping OF this record,
the county superintendent will require
each teacher to send to his Office a report
ing sheet corresponding exactly TO the
record left in the Register. The county
superintendent will then have in the office
the standing Of every pupils in his county,
the studies he Is pursuing, the number OF
classes in each school and just how each
school is classified better idea Of the
schools than could be obtained by hasty
visit. Thus the county superintendent
will have close supervision over his schools,
eau cooperate with each teacher to have
the proper studies taken and the difficulty
peculiar to each school removed, and
make the work of both teachers and pupils
throughout the entire county, systematic
and uniform. The introduction of this
Register marks the dawn of new era in
the educational progress Of the rural
schools of Audubon county.
Superintendent Willcutt who has had
the adoption OF this system under consid.
alton for some time bespeakS Tor it the
same success with which the Register is
meeting in La &c majority of the counties
in the state. The supervisors and superin.
tendent Of Audubon county are TO be con-
graduated for their wisdom in Joining
hands with the most progressive education
al counties of Iowa.
After an explanation Of Welch's Classifi-
cation Register, at the Mahaska county
Teachers Normal Institute, by Prof II.
ii. SECRECY, the Oskaloosa Globe has this
to say: "One OF the last acts Of Mr.. Seer.
ley in the interests Of education in Ma.
haska County was to urge the teachers TO
approve the recommendations Of County
Superintendent Hedge and to work for
system in the district schools. The graded
plan is the most economic and successful
one in the city schools; why can it not be
equally SO for q system Of country schools,
as the schools OF country, is question
that is being asked, and answered in the
affirmative in all the States stand high in
educational interests"