Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-22
To the Patrons and Pupils of the Public
Schools.

of study as outlined for our public
schools for the present school year.
We ask you as pupils 10 carefully ex-
anime the course in connection with
your textbooks that you may have u
definite outline in your minds Of the
work you arc expected to cover dur
ing the year In each branch. Fully
acquaint yourselves with the entire
work that you may make all necessary
preparation. Consider carefully the
Importance of this years work and
determine in your mind to put forth
greater effort and do more work and
do it more thoroughly than You have
ever done before.
AS parents we ask you to examine
this outline that you may better de-
termine throughout the year whether
your children are accomplishing what
is expected of them or not, and by
thus understanding their work You
can work for their interests more
successfully. We would urge upon
you again the Importance Of your
careful attention to the work of your
children. While the teachers may be
conscientious in their work, doing all
in their power, yet you have no right
to expect any teacher to be more great
ly interested in your child than You
are. You have, or should have, u
greater influence over your child than
anyone else can have and upon your
influence at home and at school de-
ponds very largely his mental and
moral development. If you have
children in the public school you have
q greater capital invested there than
in any other business in which you
may possibly he engaged. That which
may do more to bring you comfort
and pleasure and enable you to enjoy
life to the fullest extent, or that which
may blast all the financial and social
efforts of your life and bring you to
sorrow and disgrace. Upon the work
of that institution, together with your
influence, depends the result.
You who are anxious about the
great social and political questions that
are agitating the public mind today,
who are asking and working for re-
form on various lines and advance
ment on others, we ask your close at
tention to the work of the public
school, believing that education is the
basis of all true reform and that the
public school as the seat of education
is the foundation Of civilization and
advancement. Educate those who are
coming into power TO the necessity
and capability of reform and advance
ment and these things will be natural
results. Whenever the morality and
mental power of the masses reach
the necessary plane OF development
these great problems will he solved.
Therefore we ask you again to con-
slider the vast amount OF money and
material invested and the wonderful
responsibility resting upon the public
school and give 10 it that attention
which its Importance demands. Give
TO it that business.like attention that
you would give 10 any other enterprise
in which you had the same amount of
capital invested.
Considering the extended term, the
addition of another teacher and the
many other advantages over last years
work, we feel confident Of doing q
higher grade of work and accomplish
ing better results throughout the entire
school. would invite the attention
of the many Young men and young
ladies of Baxter Springs and vicinity
who are not pupils of the school and
WHO may not be better employed (and
some of whom perhaps may not be
employed ut alp to the advantages
offered by our public schools. We
know that there comes time In near
" every young mans and young lady's
life when an almost uncomfortable
desire 10 enter some profession, trade
or occupation whereby they may earn
money, seizes them, and while this is
q commendable trait Of character yet
il is true that 1t generally comes be-
fore the party is prepared and should
be wisely governed by some well laid
plans and careful preparation for the
general duties of life. For just as
certain as that time came there will
come another time in The life of every
young man and young lady when an
opportunity will be afforded them to
accept q very respectable and very
desirable position in business IL they
are only prepared 10 take it. We
should remember that one year prop
erly applied now may be the means Of
doubling our income in future years
and placing us in circumstances both
comfortable and pleasant. If You
wish to enter the public school with
an honest desire to do yourself good,
we will do all in our power TO make II
both pleasant and profitable for you.
Our course is not extended quite as
much as we would like to see II, but
we believe 1t is equal to the general
demand and also quite equal to our
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