Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-26
AMONG THE SCHOOLS.
Miss Parsons, the Efficient Directress
Of Drawing.
Some Points About the New Study.
The Spirit Of INSTRUMENTATION
Manifesting Itself - Boys Who
Should be in School.


of the system Of drawing lately intro
duced into our public schools, spent
two or three days inthe city the past
week, and devoted her time TO the work
of instructing the teachers and in ex-
amining the work done by the pupils of
the different schools. On Wednesday
afternoon she met the C and D teachers
at the Clay school building, spending
about two hours in giving the instruc-
ton suited to the teachers OF the differ
emit grades. Miss Parsons is a most
earnest worker, and she IS very anxious
that the drawing may be a success in
our schools, as it surely is. She is not
employed TO remain after the present
year closes, and so much time was lost
during the first months OF the school
year on account of the smallpox scare,
she feels that she has not had a fair
chance to show what amount can be ac-
complished in a year. Certain 1t IS
great things have been done, taking
everything into consideration, and the
Board of Education would do well TO
consider the matter OF a special draw
ing teacher. BY the way, how would
it do to have a special drawing and
writing teacher, both in one and the
same person? A great many think
this would be a move in the right direc-
ton, while others think that both these
branches ought to be done by the regu-
lar teachers The teaching of draw
ing not being requirement, until late
~, our teachers cannot be as we'll quail
fed in giving instructions in drawing
as ~ would have been, had drawing
been taught when they were pupils.
But nearly all of them are doing good
work in this line. They are learners,
and are learning rapidly. This ought
to be well thought OF in all lines of
work. Whenever a teacher ceases TO
be a learner, she ought to quit teaching.
There is a feeling of INSTRUMENTATION
running riot among our boys and girls
OF to-day. 1t is a matter that parents
ought to attend to, and that right early.
Every effort on the part of the teacher
to have what she considers good or
der. is distasteful to many who are old
enough to know better. Were many
parents made to know just how their
children behave at school, they would
be very much surprised. 1t should be
as much the aim OF the teachers to have
their pupils become good men and wo-
men. as il is that they should become
proficient in the branches In order
TO become such, they must become SUBJ
ject to authority. This the teacher
tries to enforce, but if they are not sus-
tanned in their efforts by the parent. it
is impossible TO reach the best results.
How can we expect the kind of order
that should be in every school when
the teacher is, perhaps, spoken slight
ingly OF by the parent in the home and
in the presence of the child. Our people
willingly pay their taxes to support
the public schools, but in order that the
schools produce the results anticipated,
parent and teacher must work together.
The parent must, at least, see that the
child respects the teachers authority,
under all circumstances. Good, COM
mon sense home training is needed all
over our land to-day, just about as
badly as any one thing. If we are to be
the people we boast of being in the flu
ture, it must come from the homes Of
our land. Make our homes what they
should be, and you make our schools
what they should be, and you make our
boys and girls what they should be.
Make our boys and girls what they
should be, and you make our men and
women what they should be. Make our
men and women what they should be
and you make our country, the happy,
proud America, it should be, and that
it will be if we are true to our trust.
Again, we enter a plea for the boys.
There are several hundred OF them in
the city who are not in school, and they
might be. They are running the
streets learning all kinds of badness,
when they might be at school learning,
at least, how to read and write. Why
parents will not awaken to the fact that
these boys are on the road to ruin, is
one of the strange things that meet us
in this world. Boys ought to be forced
to stay in school, at least, until they
have formed habits of study, and love
for good reading. There is hope of
boy who loves to read good books, and
who has learned to investigate for
himself. There is no danger of such
one making a bad man, but there is lit
tie hope of boy who either reads moth
ing at all or reads bad books when he
does read.
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