Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28
THE EAST.
Trouble the Poor School Teachers
Have With Rebelious Parents and
Notes Received From Them.

The following, from the New York
Sun, is respectfully dedicated by the
LEDGER to Supt. d. A. Mcmillan, o.
the Mexico public schools:
The fact that the "Slab City" par
ents object to clay modelling in the
schools is illustrated in the following
note sent to a teacher in one of the
Tenth ward schools:
Miss -: John KEN home yester-
day wild his clothes covered wild mud.
lie said you put him to work mixing
clay when he ought to be learning to
read an write. Me man carries tn
hod, an God knows | hev enuf trouble
wild his clothes in tn wash widout
scraping Johns coat. If he comes
home like this again lll send him
back ter yeZ to wash his clothes.
Mrs. Or.
Here is one from a Brownsville
mother who objects to physical cul-
ture:
Miss Brown: You must stop teach
my Lizzie fiscal torture, she needs yet
readin' and figors NIT sums more as
that. If | want her to do jumpin'
KIN Hldhe neF jump.
Mrs. CANAVowsKY.
The number of parents who object
to the temperance plank in the edu-
cational platform is greater than the
number of DIRECTORS to any other class
of study in Williamsburg. Here is a
copy of a note sent to a teacher in the
Stage street school:
Miss -: My boy tells me that
when / trink beer der orercoat vrom
my stummack gets to thick. Please be
so kind and don't interfere in my
family affairs. Mr.. CHRIS =.
Here is a sample on the same sub
ject sent to a teacher in the Maujer
street school:
Dear Teacher: You should mine You
own bizness an not tell Jake he
should not trink bier. So long as he
lif he thinks the bier an he thinks it
yen wen bill rains is ded. If you in
terrier some more | go on the boerd of
! education. w. S.
In this school the teachers are often
compelled to listen to long arguments
on the excise question, and the par
ents who call around to argue become
greatly excited when told that the
children are taught not to taste alco-
holic liquors. One little boy told his
teacher that his mother had given him
orders to get up and leave the class
room during the hour for discussing
the alcohol question. The teacher told
the boy to ask his mother to call
around at the schoolhouse. She did
not come, but wrote this note:
Teacher: John says you want to
see me. | have a bier saloon and nine
children. Bizness is good in morning
an aft'noon. How a l { come?
The Pickleville parents as a rule
never omit the "obliging" end of the
note, as will be seen in the folling sent
to a teacher of the Wall street school:
Dear Teacher: Please excuse Fritz
fer staying home he had der meeslls
to oblige his father. j. Il.
Here is one sent to the Brownsville
school:
Dear Miss Baker: Please excuse
for being away these two days her
grandmother died to oblige her moth
or. MRS. RENsKI.
The child mentioned in the follow
ing note was neither German nor
Irish. But he is back in school after
a battle with the doctors:
Miss -: Frank could not come
these three weeks because he had the
amonia and information of the Vowels.
MRS. SMITH.
The notes sent are sometimes writ
ten on scented paper, and as a rule
these are mispelled. Hero is a scented
paper sample:
Teacher you must excuse my girl for
not coming to school, she was sick
and lade in a common dose state for
three days. MRS. w.
In this same school a teacher re-
ceived the following:
Miss -: Please let Willie home
at 2 O'Clock take him out for n little
pleasure to see his grandfather's
grave. MRS. r.
Still another mother wrote the
following:
Miss -: Please be SO kind an
knock hell out of Sol when he givea
too much lip TO oblige his mother.