Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-01
SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY
NEARLY ALL The TEACHERS BACK FROM
THEIR VACATIONS
And Ready for Another Campaign Of Teaching the
Young Ideas How to Shoot-The Changes
in Force Few, but Many Alter
atoms in Buildings.

"Yes, we open up next Monday,
said Superintendent Anderson, OF the
Public schools" for another educational
campaign, and everything indicates an
suspicious beginning"
Superintendent Anderson has been
enjoying the summer with his family at
his favorite haunts, Beech Bottom,
where he has fine farm, enabling him
to intersperse his educational laoors
with agricultural tactics. He has been
dropping into town, however, at inter
walls all through the summer, TO con-
slider school plans for the coming year.
Nearly all the teachers who have been
scattered during the summer almost to
the four winds resorting and visiting
friends, are once more in Wheeling, all
with a healthy tan, bat strong and Wig
orous, ready for the fierce fray with
books.
Tie hour of nine next Monday morn
ing will not be looked forward to with
unalloyed joy by those boys and girls
who have so long been the careless, I'M
restrained, romping idyls Of the beach
and forest. IL is little wonder that 1t
comes hard to buckle down to books.
But this feeling is soon lost to view in a
week or so. Just how many scholars
there will be in the schools it is difficult
to state Just now. Judging from the
last report of the school sensus enumer-
ators there IS falling off, but this re-
port, as has been stated, has been cast
aside, and the work OF retaking the cen
sus began yesterday, The next report,
now that the people have all returned,
will probably show an increase over last
year.
There are few changes among the
teachers this year, nearly the whole
force remaining the same as last year.
There are about five changes in all,
most of them being at the Third Ward
school,
All the schools in the city have been
cleaned, renovated and repaired, and
placed in excellent condition for the
opening session. The addition to the
! Union School is about completed, and 1t
was thought awhile ago that it would
be ready by the time school opened on
Monday, but there is now some doubt
about it. 1t will probably be finished
within week or so after school opens.
1t was not intended that the Webster
School annex would be completed this
year, but the work there is making good
progress.
There has been but one change in
text books. Appleton's readers that
have been in use in the schools here for
the past thirteen years will be replaced
by McGuffey's readers. In the matter
of calsthencs the superintendent has
been requested 10 write to number OF
cities to ascertain how IL was regarded
as part of the curriculum. lie has al
ready received number OF replies,
nearly all of which are favorable to the
system, and speak in high terms of
praise of it. The question of intro
ducing this in the schools here is
now in the hands Of a special
committee, and they will probably meet
and determine the matter in few days
The matter Of having general ceiebra-
tion Of Columbian Day in the schools in
October is in the hands of special COM
mittee, and no definite conclusion has
been reached. II is likely that the eel
ebration will be held At all events
there is certain time set apart, about
one hour a week in all the schools, for
the study OF such things as pertain to
the coming Columbian exposition.
While tho schools formally open on
Monday they again close on Tuesday,
as this is the school childrenS day at the
State Fair, reopening permanently on
Wednesday.
Superintendent Anderson has just
issued his schedule of meetings for the
wear. The first meeting Of the Princi-
pals will be on the first Friday in Sep
TENDER at o'clock p. N. After that
the meeting of the Principals will be on
the first Thursday of every month eX-
cept January and April, when no meet
ings will be held. The Wheeling
Teachers Association will hold it's first
meeting on Friday, September IL, at
Clay School at p m. The other two
meetings will be held on the first Fri
day of January and the second Friday
of April. There will be four meetings
of the Grammar School Teachers, OctO-
Der goth, December 22d, February 10th
and April goth.
The meetings of the c and D teachers
will be held at $3.50 p. m as follows:
Washington school on the first Mon
day of each month; Madison school on
the first Tuesday OF each month; Clay
school on the first Wednesday of each
month; Union school on the first
Thursday of each month; Centre school
on the second Monday of each month;
Webster school on the second Tuesday
of each month; Ritchie school On the
second Wednesday of each month.
The meetings of the a and b teach
ers shall be held at 3 p. m. Except on
days of general meeting) as follows:
Washington and Union on the first
Friday in each month; Madison and
Lincoln on the second Friday in each
month: Clay and Richie on the third
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