The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1895-05-25
The Summer MOI NAL.

u;n nls school, as already announced
,7.,, M,it open ~ at Opelousas on Monday. June
lHh' 70 continue weeks. and viii ha q
tesu,ar school, conducted by experienc.
eu educators, in which special instrnc.
tlons will be given to public school
aeachers and class of about fortv chill.
TH.1n. ~ ~ recent letter Prof. B. G..
ttaiuweli, the State conductor of insti-
'"'es ana summer normals, says:
Each summer school will have a corns
thf ~ ioaf instructors. aud the board feels
unat it mas been fortunate in secnrinp
~ ~. nauy strong institute workers for
4 tue summers work. There will he a
I practice school in connection with tha
{ normal, 10 which skilled nrimarv
| teaclier will give a months instruction
TO about forty children, using the most
approved methods of instruction. In
Ibis model school the teachers who at
.enn tue summer normal will have the
opportunity to witness the actual work
~ moaern primary school where on
tne pest methods and material are
Will be the means of making an imme-
diate and permanent Improvement in
tne local standard of what should he
Tue hsual course of work in the common
schools. This has been the universal
verdict IN Shreveport, where the sum-
mer normal and model school we're
maintained for month last summer.
1t may not be out of place tn give
also, in this connection. an extract frnm @
the act of the legislature Of 1894. rela-
alive to teachers institutes. which reads
as follows: O''N'
Sec. z. Be it further enacted, etc.
lhat any school teacher failing to at
tend the institute held in his parish.
without an excuse satisfactory to the
Board OF School Directors thereof, shall
immedlateiy, upon demand OF the par
ish superintendent, forfeit bis certiti-
cate and lose his position: and that
each public school teacher in attendance
upon the institute shall receive the
same compensation for the time of at
tendance as for actual teaching.
whether the schools be in session or not:
provided he shall have been present
during the whole session of the insti-
tute.
Sec 8. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That the school Superintendent Of
every parish in which no State institute
ls to be held during the year, shall en-
courage and urge the public school
teachers of bis parish to attend the
nearest State Teachers Institute, grant
ing them leave of absence from their
school duties and giving them the same
compensation for attending the insti-
tute as provided Tor in section 7-seven
of this act for teachers of schools To-
Gated ID the parish wherein the institute
is held.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the State Institute Conductor aud |
his assistant conductors shall issue GER
titicates Of attendance to every teacher
in attendance during the whole session |
of State Teachers Institute, and the
parish Boards of School Directors shall
give preference, ceteris paribus, to the
holders of said certificates in the selec-
tion of teachers for the public schools.
The above explains itself, and any
further comment is, therefore, unne-
cessary. lis earnestly to be hoped that
there will he full attendance of the
teachers, not only OF St. Landry, but al
SO of adjoining parishes.