The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-03-26

teen, and l have repeatedly visited it
when as many as three little children
were present. But when I called
there Dec. 70, 1890, school was held
in a building situated few feet
from the new site, twenty pupilswere
in attendance, while tWenty-four
names were upon the roll. The new
site is not in the center of the dis
trict, neither was the old one. The
old school house now stands on the
farm adjoining the old site, and I
have been told that no one is allowed
to approach it, so the board was
compelled to go without school or
rent building. The latter course
was taken.
District No. is noted. It has
had more animated school meetings,
free fights, lawsuits, appeals to the
State Superintendent, ETC., than any
other in Kenosha County, to say
nothing Of the burning of couple
school houses.
With these few statements | leave
the public to judge whether l merit
ed the abuse received for saying that
in my judgment, taking everything
into consideration, the new site was
preferable to the old.
am pleased to report that quite a
little repairing has been done during
the past year. Several wood-sheds
have been built. This is a step in
the right direction, but the Board
should see that the house is filled
with green wood in the spring SO that
it will have a chance to season IN
der cover. Some fencing. grading
and tree-planting have also been
done. There is room for more work
of this kind in nearly every district,
especially tree planting. It is to be
hoped that next spring will witness
an army Of workers ready and will
ing to beautify the grounds upon
which stands that about which more
has been written and said during the
past six months than any other top
ic:-"The little red school house"
The whole number of children
drawing public money is 1920. The
number between the ages of seven
and fourteen is 1908. 1925, or six
ty more than last year, attended the
public school twelve weeks or more
143 attended some private school,
which still leaves 1877, or about one
out of every eight that stayed at
home.
The whole number of school
houses in the county is sixty-one and
the number of teachers employed is
sixty two. Salem Center has had the
greatest average attendance for the
past year, viz: forty-nine; the maxi
mum for any one month was fifty
two. District No. 6, Paris, does not
average seven for the year, and fell
to three during one month.
No school during the past year has
been free from hardness, but dis,
tricts Nos. 2 and 3, Brighton, l.,
Bristol, "A. Somers, and the upper
room at Wilmot reported none for
the summer. District No s, Paris,
while under the charge of Gertrude
Cook, shows not a single case Of tar
diness for two years, thus making it
the banner district for the past four
years.
In many schools the average at
tendance has been very good, in
some almost 100 per cent, while in
others it has fallen to sixty or seventy
per cent. This means the poorest
scholars are present less than half
the time, yet the wise voters of the
state have said "That is good
enough.
am still Of the opinion that if the
Course Of Study for District Schools
was more closely followed and more
attention paid TO graduation and
proper records, that it would be a
great improvement. The County
Superintendent can advise, but Sec
ton 441 Of the Revised Statutes
gives District Boards the power to
act as we'll as advise. If the boards
would do their duty in this direction
then a single teacher could not undo
what has taken many terms to &C
complish.
Teachers and School Boards
should read Sections 446 anI 400 in
regard to records. "Haryey's Com
mon School Register" published by
the Midland Publishing Co., Madi-
son, Wis, is here prescribed as a
suitable, convenien. and sufficient
form of register to be furnished by
the District Clerks and kept by the
teachers in the public schools of the
State of Wisconsin, as provided by
the statutes. j B. Thayer, State
Superintendent. No. 879 of the Red
Line Series, IS also good.
! wish to thank the boards for do
ing what has Teen done in the line of