The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-21

as in. The boys who are elected" get
their names on sort of honor roll that is
tackled on the wall, receive a small award
OF merit aud the head master publicly
grasps each OF them by the hand. Ana
milkscps don't get elected.
One boy left the stnool with the we'll
earned reputation OF being the most per-
sistent and successful truant the school
ever had to deplore. One day aboa. a
year and half afterward-it was one lord
mayors day. when the school is not
closed-the ex-truant came into the school
rooom and shook hands with the head mas
ter He had entered the service of the
city streets department. and after sprink-
ling the street for this lord mayors pro-
cession he got a day oil, the first holiday
he had had. That first holiday he spent
from beginning to end in his old school
yard.
Just now the school is up in arms over
the descent of the revengefuI mother upon
the teacher who punished her little girl.
The teacher was frail slip of a woman
and the NOTICE the sort of fat giantess
that you can see crouched in her doorway
all day long guzzling whisky, or else out
in the alley fighting, or shining in the re-
fined circle round the bar of the pub"
The little girl had wandered from the
straight and narrow way once before and
been punished for it, and at that time, as
sometimes happens, the loving father
waited upon the teacher and politely noti-
fed her that he would beat her down TO
the ground if she ventured TO correct
the girl again.
After the second offence and the second
reckoning the mother laid for the teach
er when she left the school, blackened
both of her eyes, pulled out some of her
hair, and frightened her into state of
collapse. The part Of the whole operation
that makes the school people maddest,
however, is that when the case came be-
fore an especially dunderheaded specl-
men of The London police magistrate he
not only let the attacking party of with
a small fine, but delivered a little lecture
in her favor. in which he expressed the
valuable opinion that there shouldn't be
any Furnishing in schools anyway. but that
sweet moral suasicn should reign in It's
stead.
The head master remarked that the af-
fair would probably yield perfect harvest
of complaints from other indignant moth
ers. At home maternal remonstrance takes
the form of "heaving" the nearest bottle.
but they are all extremely touchy about
the treatment of their young barbarians in
school, more so in regard to girls than
boys. In these families the girl is usually
the pet, and IL is on the cards that the
daughter OF the house, ferruled at school,
is taken to a music hall at night as sort
of balm for Ter injured feelings.
For the rod" in this school is not a
figure of speech. 1t Is a stout young rod.
applied for minor offences to the hand. for
heavier Owes to another portion Of the hu
man frame. There is also an odd punish
ment book, in which every case that calls
for and receives chastisement is entered
name, date, and offence-and the teacher
is careful to add a note that the correction
was not inflicted in passion" They rather
rub it in by making the shiveIing urehin
fetch the book and rod.
Trouble with parents is becoming the
exception rather than the rule. When the
school first opened the teachers were pelt-
ed regularly on their way there and back
and sometimes attacked, so that they used
to go in a body. Occasionally there were
rebellions in the schoolroom=.
and it was not rare for a teacher to hear |
himself addressed as a bloody monkey
and to have to dodge an accurately thrown I
slate At that time even policemen went |
through the neighborhood in pairs only
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