Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-03-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
SCHOOL NOTES.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

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The Northern Illinois Teachers as
sociation meets in Aurora the last
FRIDAY and Saturday of April. A
number of local teachers are planning
tC attend.
| The winter term of school will close
one week from Friday, March %.
This will be followed by weeks va
cation, in which teachers will at
tend the county institute and rest at
home, or visit their country cousins.
The pupils of the Eighth grade Wis
tied the High sch DOL yesterday and
today to see some of the High school
work and look over the building.
Principal Darby and his associate
teachers made the prospective fresh
man class feel at home in the High
| school environments.
Supt. K. G.. Young has been APP
pointed a mem Der of the state COM
mittee on railway transportation for
the National Educational association,
which meets in Charleston next July.
He will be able to give those inter
ested information regarding rates,
ticket conditions, ETC., as soon as
arrangements are completed by the
general executive committee.
Parents should bear in mind that
| new pupils will be received in the first
primary schools at the opening of the
spring term. April 8. 1t is very de-
sirable that young children who are
to enter should do so the first day of
the term. Parents should take their
children to the principal of the school
in the district in which they reside.
They will be received and assigned to
the proper room.
The attendance of many pupils in
the schools is very irregular. Parents
are requested by the superintendent
to carefully examine report cards sent
home at the close of the month and
satisfy themselves that every absence
| indicated was legitimate. They should
also bear in mind that n very little
| absence is sufficient to throw a child
out of touch with the work and spirit
of his class. The progress of scores
of children is imperiled by their ir-
regularity of attendance.
| The county institute, by the way,
promises to be of exceptional interest
and value TO teachers. DIR. O'Shea's
work in Child Study" is always
good, aud it will have special inter-
est to our teachers in view of the fact
that they are now studying DR.. lay
lor's Study of the Child. This is
very practical work and one that is
exceedingly interesting to teachers
and parents. 1t is suggested it would
be good idea for mothers, and faith
ers. too, to attend some of these
monthly teachers meetings.
Supt. Young attended the recent
National uperintendents' convention
in Chicago. He visited some of the
South side schools-the Forestville
and Kozminski. These schools are
presided over by two of Chicago's
strongest principals, Miss Florence
Holbrook and o. j. Millikin. The
| Forestville school has built up great
reputation on it's reading and language
work. The reading was certainly
most excellent. but Mr.. Young could
not help wondering whether the re-
suits were to be attributed to real
power in the mastery of thought and
words, or to the remarkable feats of
memorizing which the children had
accomplished. 1t was a very common
thing for children to read the entire
lesson without reference to the book.
In the Kozminski school Mr.. Young
found in full operation a manual
training department in the basement
and a cooking school in the attic.
Mr.. Millikin stated that the cooking
department for the entire city was
maintained at a cost of $4,000 per
year. In reply to queries, he said
that about 500 girls took cooking les
sons in his school and that the board
of education allowed an expenditure
of l / cents per pupil per lesson of
hour and 80 minutes Both depart
ments were presided over by ladies.