Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-15

! earnest, hard workers who nave done
all they could, and the result always
shows to their favor
A very interesting meeting Of all the
/ teachers of Richie school was held on
| Wednesday in the Office of the main
building, at which various subjects
were discussed. All are determined to
Try to do better work next year than
| ever before. The subject of individual
promotions was among the many talked
of and the opinion expressed was that
such promotions ought not only be
made, but that the teachers ought to
/ take special pains to have them made
| whenever necessary. Hard study and
| diligence ought to be rewarded
II is no doubt a difficult task for a
/ teacher to know just how to promote
| pupils as suggested above bu, it should
! be done without fear or favor. Parents
may not like it, as every parent thinks
his child just as bright, if not little
| brighter, than anybody else's child,
but even if this be true, and we are not
sure that there is very much differ
ence in the average ability of a num-
Der of children taken promiscuously
from any community, there is
a great difference in the
amount of study done and the ap-
plication and attention paid, and so the
naturally bright child may be left be-
hind by his more studious neighbOr.
Then again, parents have much to do
lin this matter. though many of them
act as though they had no part or lot
i'm it, After a certain age, the pupils
i'm our public schools cannot succeed
as they ought unless a good deal of
studying is done at home, and parents
fail very often to see that it is done,
and so pupils fall back of their fellows
and the teachers are blamed when it is
in truth the parents fault.
The hot weather has cut down the
attendance in the schools very greatly
this week 1t is a question as TO
weather school should keep" at all
during the hot weather, but as our
schools must begin the first week in
September and close the last week of
June why not during these two months
have but one session daily? Say from
s a. m. to - m. This is done in other
cities with the very best of results,
and why not here? The attendance
could thus be kept up during the entire
year. This is something worthy the
attention of our Board of Education.
The commencement exercises Of the
nublic schools will be held in the
Wheeling Opera House, Wednesday
envening. June 25th. and tifty-eight
bows and girls will launch their barks
into LIES great stream, and begin the
voyage which is to end with the rich
est fruition of all their hopes or to be
wrecked as many are on the many
shoals lining its banks. That all may
enter the harbor Of success, is the wish
of the writer.
These are commencement times just
now The air is full of the sound OF
the orations given throughout the land.
we feel like saving TO all who gradu-
ate. Boys and girls. enjoy yourself
YES to your fullest extent, for you are
greater tonight than you will ever
he again" The years go by. and the
thousands coming from our schools
are taking their places to work out
their destines. and we confidently be-
Heve that from our schools spring the
/ greatness of our nation May these
schools grow better year after year