The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-02-04
SCHOOL MELANGE.


those who have the good of gu: schools
at heart. especially those who think that
as many boys as girls should so
through our schools. The entire num-
Der enrolled during the month was SIS
454 boys and 1874 girls. AS first and sec
ond year pupils there were 1874 boys and
ITO girls. In the seventh and eighth
year. or grammar department. there
We're twenty-seven boys and forty-seven
girls. Now the fact the writer wishes
10 call esPeeia! attention to is that our
boys do not even so through the ward
schools. let alone the high school. In
the eighth year class there are thirteen
boys and twenty-seven girls. OF these
boys. !. e., the boys that are in the class
that should go to the high school next,
not more than eight or them will go.
even IL they pass the required test.
Well, what is the remedy for all this?
You may ask. 1t is very difficult mat
ter to tell just what means are to be
employed to keep our boys in school.
Parents ought 10 be made TO see the
necessity of 1t, but in many cases they
do not see it. or If they do they do not
care. VIVA, then? The boys must be
interested so they will not leave school.
1 would suggest that the teacher make
more of an effort to inspire the boys by
showing the necessity of their becoming
good men, and impress the truth that
good education Is one of the greatest
factors TO help them to so become.
Even. II this took some time away from
the practice in the daily routine work of
drilling, arithmetic. spelling. ETC.. into
their brains 1t would be time well spent.
In addition to the above. would sug-
Sest the formation OF cadet corps
among the boys of the high school. /. e.,
IL there are enough Of them TO form a
respectable one, as to numbers, and
perhaps the formation OF the same in
each ward school would do no harm.
Boys naturally take to military drill
aud It makes them better physically
aud more manly In appearance every
way. Our Catholic friends of the city
OF Wheeling. In order TO hold their
boys in school. have introduced military
drill among the boys and ALL see the
good results OF 1t. Another thing the
writer would recommend, |. e.. to intro
ducc manual training into our high
school at the very earliest moment pos
slble. He has several times had the
privilege and he might add the pleasure
OF visiting the Toledo high school, con-
nected with which there Is one OF the
very best manual training schools In
the land. The principal OF this school
told him that the Introduction OF man
ual training In the high school increased
the attendance OF boys more than 80
Per cent. He said that boys who could
not be kept In school before. were WILL
ing AID anxious TO come and spend Sat-
urday afternoon IN the ships. IL they
We're permitted TO do. In the New York
school there is manual training even in
the ward schools, and the result Is tho
boys remain in school. There is enough
In this 10 cause those who have the
creates; good Of our schools ut heart,
10 ponder the matter well. and see Il.
some plan canno. be devised that will
cause our boys 10 remain at school until
they have, at least, n fair business cdu-
cation. There is no city OF its size that
needs al educated manhood more than
does Wheeling. but we cannot have II
until something Is done 10 keep our boys
In school.