The Red Cloud chief., 1893-09-08
OUR COLUMN
ny D. NJ. HUNTER, co. sUpT.

on his week. The duty OF parents Is to
send all Of their children OF school age
to school every day. Too many parents
are in the habit Of framing excuses for
not sending their children to school.
Taxes are paid for school purposes, but
in many di, tricts tho children do not
get value received for the money expen-
ded by their parents and others for the
purpose Of supporting the public school.
That the children do not get value re.
ceived for the amount Of money expen.
ded il not the fault OF the public school
system, but the fault lies with those
parents themselves who neglect to use
the means at hand for the education Of
their children.
The few dollars that John may earn
during a three months term OF school
will never pay for what he looses in men.
tai training by being out Of school dur
ing those three months, Too many
young people desire to teach
ing school just at the time when two or
three years Of attendance at school is
worth more to them than the amount of
money that they could earn with their
present qualifications in ten years teach.
ing. Too many boys and girls on &C
count OF the eagerness Of their parents
and OF themselves to make money
leave school before they have acquired
all the education that can be obtained
In our public schools; after boys and
girls have received an education there
will be schools to teach, goods to sell.
houses to build, fields to plough, horses
to shoe, engines to run, and a demand
for those who have ability, on account Of
the mental training received at school,
to take the lead in learning to do these
things well.
The world is progressing, the men
who dig bitches, sprinkle streets, carry
hods, deliver goods, plough corn, cut
cordwood, pound iron, oil cars, etc, are
} expected to be better educated now
} than those who did these same things
twenty years ago. When the boys and
girls Of to day become men and women
they will feel the want OF education
much more than the men and women Of
to day feel the result OF their lost opper-
tunities or their parents neglect.
1t is criminal neglect Of the proper
care Of their children on the part of par
ents to be carless about giving their
children at least a good public school ed.
D ucation.
, Red Cloud has one Of the best public
l schools in the state Of Nebraska. One
. who completes the course in this schoo
has an education that is of inestmiable
q value to him. The fault Of many OF oul
: town and city schools is, that, in order
that the machinery" Of the school ma!
L run smoothly, and mistaken parents b.
pleased, promotions are made from ont
grade to another before the pupils arr
I thorough in the work which they are sup
posed to have done. These promotions
are almost forced upon teachers ant
superintendent often by the foolish
4 clamor Of parents to have their children
study the "higher' branches before tn
Q pupils are thorough in the common
. branches, the most important. Judg
ing from the examination OF four OF tn,
last years graduates for certificates I,
o teach, the Red Cloud schools are as fire.
> from the above named fault as an,
school that we know Of, and far super
,r ior to many. The work Of this schOo
n promises to be done exceedingly we
J! this year. The teachers will do thor
ough work in their several grades, AM
will b under tho direction of a city SUI
10 %erintendent who has during the pas
le two years, done much to raise the stan
10 dard of the city schools.
All that is necessary on the part @
the parents Of Red Cloud is to send thei
boys and girls to school every day, an
y. to cooperate with the superintendent
and the teachers in the education G
their children. AS the school boar
have been careful in the selection c
teachers, the superintendent and teach
ers should have the confidence Of tn
patrons.
There are many boys and girls in Re
Cloud who have not completed tn
course. but who do not attend schoo
The school will go on just the same
these young people do not attend. Tn
teachers salaries, and other expense
will be paid; the school will cost jus
the same whether they attend tn
school or not. All it costs a pupil no
in our public schools to get an educatio
is his time and mental application
other necessary things are furnishe
free. A young man can easily afford I
drop a job OF work in order to go I
school. He can get the same kind of
Job to do after he has completed tn
course at school II he desires it.
The good sense of a certain bin
man is to be commended. He had a be
leading him. A b~ystander asked IL til
boy were his son The blind man al
swered, mo Sir" l can not afford
ne have my boy lead me; ! have employe
". this one to do il. My boy is in schoo