The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-02-06
SCHOOL POINTERS
Picked Out of the County Superln-
tendent'S Record Book.


charge of Misses Chapman, Patterson
and Hitchcock. A visit there not long
ago disclosed some very noticeable
points of excellence. There are some
bright boys and girls in the schools
who are determined to find the bright
side of things and the teachers show
willingness to help, too.
Three Lakes township has dis
trict with three schools in it. The
teachers, Misses Smith, Tiffany and
Hatch have not large schools but in
teresting ones, which would be more
so, if the pupils would attend more
regularly.
One gets the heart-ache visiting
schools and noticing how poorly clad
some children are who come two miles
or more to school on a cold morning.
Yet it is cheering to know that these
very children are hungry for brain
food.
Out in Westline, district No. 3S, Mrs.
A. G. Lamport teacher, is to be found
a room full of earnest pupils. The
school contained a larger number of
young men and women than is usual
ly found in our schools. The sign is
hopeful and means much for our fu-
ture men and women.
Quite a number of school officers
have whitened the walls of school
rooms, put in new stoves, added addi-
tional blackboard surface and in sew
eral ways let in an extra ray of sun
shine, Happiness into the children's
souls.)
There are so many little things our
school officers must do in order to
keep apace with neighboring districts.
The one needful and necessary provi-
sion is good, strong, we'll built water
closet for each sex. We found some
barbarous shacks last week that are
burning shames for an enlightened
people to tolerate. How is it, beloved,
are the closets on your own school
! grounds fit for use?
One sees such striking pictures visit
ing schools. Some rooms are tidy,
homelike and cosy. Just over the
way only three miles you encounter a
dirty, dingy room, the teacher half
asleep hearing what the children on
their own efforts dig out of the books.
Lessons are heard but not taught.
Say, my beloved, which one of these
school rooms is yours? There are
some would be teachers who think the
care of a school room, health to the
children, light and warmth of the
school rooms and personal cleanliness
of pupils are no parts of good school
It's refreshing to meet some wide
awake school marin whose room is
kept sweet and clean; who carefully
watches the sunlight to see that it does
not shine directly into the delicate,
tender eyes of her pupils; who if a
window is curtainless, will make for
the time being a curtain out of old
newspapers instead of sitting down
and whining about what the school
board won't do.
Occasionally one gets TO the school
house in the morning about as soon
as the teacher. 1t occurs to us, that a
stove burning hard coal which would
keep the school room in a fairly warm
condition during the night would be a
good investment. It's asking quite a
task from any female to walk a mile
through the snow on cold morning
and then to go into an icy cold room
to build fire and there stay until the
room is warmed. Hard coal is not
only the cheapest fuel, but it's the
cleanest and best.
Out in Granite Rock, district No. 70
A. G. Lamport teacher, is to be founo
an excellent worker. Such sensible
ideas about arithmetic and reading
must awaken in children desire t.
know more and an interest in thei
work and love for their teacher. Hi.
work in the first reader would put tt
shame many of our teachers, who in
sist such work as was seen can't b.
done. Some insist such work will pro
duce 'brain cramp." It's the varies
of bosh to keep children with expan
sive minds on work they knew before
, they entered the school room.
Down in Johnsonville there ara two
schools, districts 48 and So, that hav,