Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-08

Another class Of boys and girls have
! passed the ordeal in our city schools,
and they 90 forth after the close of this
month to play their part in the worlds
great drama. 1t is no question TO the
thinking mind whether they are better
prepared for performing their parts
than they would be without the train
ing they have received during their
school life. but we have parents even
among us who think it is time wasted
to keep their boys, at least, at school
after they are old enough to do a little
work.
These parents do not realize that 1t
is the training received that lays the
foundation for the success of the future
man or woman that naturally springs
from the boys and girls now in our
schools. The point we wish 10 make is
that, everything else being equal, the
more good school training a boy or a
girl has the greater will the life of such
be a success. If a boy can make a suc1
cess without this, how much greater
with it?
A glance over the list Of graduates for
this year shows that out of the sixty
in all but II are boys. This shows just
four times as many girls as boys who
have finished the course. or the 50
graduates of Richie school since the
graduating system went into effect 81
are boys and g. are girls, and this Is I'd
doubt q better comparative showing
than can be given by any other school.
These things speak for themselves. Our
boys are not staying in school as long
bs they ought TO stay; and this compar-
alive difference in the number Of grad
yates as divided between the two sexes
seems to be getting greater as the yeara
pass
How can our boys be kept in school
ought to be the great educational prob
lem of the day. If our educators would
consider this a little more. and little
less time were spent in considering the
pschycOlical development of the con-
crete and the abstract, by being sure to
touch the proper cord of the proper fac
ulty of the child mind, then common
sense foundation might be laid that
would induce our boys to, at least, fin
ish the public school course. If boy
does this well, and he has a desire TO
go farther in his school education, he
will do so even if his parents are not
able to furnish the means; he will do
it himself.
Right here comes in the Manual
Training School. In those cities where
a good manual training school is in op-
GRAFTON the attendance of the boys in
the high school was increased 80 per
cent. VIII Wheeling ever awaken to
the fact that this is what she needs to
keep her boys in school long enough to
give them an education that will cause
them to be the very business men that
we must have to make our city to be
Just what its natural situation and re-
sources demand it should become, i. e.,
the metropolis of the Upper Ohio Val
ley?
The question is often asked, do our
boys who graduate at our public schools
succeed better in life than those who do
not? In answering this question l will
not deny that some who have not grad
uated do better than some who have,
but that does not affect the position
taken that any boy will succeed better
Physicians, I; clerks and boOkkeepers,
not. If a boy succeeds without the
school education he would do much
better with it, if given the same oppor-
tunities.
Of the % graduates of the Eighth
ward school living-12 boy graduates
previous to the present class-we give
the following record, as far as known:
Physicians, 4; clerks and boOkketepers,
6; farmer, /; bank clerk, 1; lawyer, J.;
newspaper men, 8; architects, 2; civil
engineer, 1; deputy sheriff, /; student
at Rome /; potter, 1. And these are
all succeeding well. Can the same be
said of the same number Of boys who
have not graduated?
We suggest that our Board Of Educa-
ton. superintendent, principals and
teachers do more work in the direction
of keeping our boys in school than they
have done i'm the past This will do a
great deal more for the general good
than "stufing" for high per cents.
The average attendance for the month
of Nav was very low in all the schools
for two reasons-the hot weather and
the smallpox scare. From present
outlook the average attendance during
this month will be still lower.
There was a very interesting perform
ance at the meeting Of the Longfellow
Literary Society yesterday afternoon.
It was given by the first year pupils,
and they did better than usual.
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