The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-07-27
School Conduct.
Squawkee Hill, July 20, 1900.

+ WAS quite interested In Mr..
Wright's artlcle on school meetings in
last week = GRAPHIC and have come to
the cOnclusi Onsthat be is right. You
can tell Jest about how school is going
from the children. quiz my children
perticular every night about the GO
| ings on 1T scbOoi that day. Mary
Ann used to tell me last winter that
most all the girls ut school would
| write notes to the boys. She SAID
twas awfully silly stuff. She SAID
she wouldn't be caught writing such,
and she didn't see how the teacher
could allow it. She said he didn't
have eyes in the back of his head by
"a long ways for the girls had tested
him.
W hen they wanted to throw batch
of notes one of the girls would go up
and Ask him question in history land
| tnaG's mis- hobby and he can t see any
thing even with his ordinary eyes while
he is talking on history. SO then the
girls would lire The noJes.
My Susan tells me LhaG the scholars
in her geography class just hate that
study and the way they 10 TO get rId
OF 1t Is this: Eacn scholar gets one
question SO he can answer 1T and then
| tney sit in the class in "a certain order
and when the teacher asks a question,
NO. L gets up aud answers, then No.
2, and so Or down the line LII The
teacher should happen to begin at the
wrong end of the class, (which does
not happen after the teacher catches
on why the scholar at the foot sits
still and No. jumps up and answers.
So, Susan says, that class most al
ways has good lessOnS-and they get
marked pretty high on the reports the
teacher sends to the parents.
Georgia, my youngest boy, was lis
tenlng to Susan and after she finished
her story he told how the scholars 10
with the reports. They look to see if
they are marked pretty good and if
they are the reports are carried to the
parents, if not they are lost on the
way home.
But" Georgia said, "We never
tear them up because we know that
you and Ma never look at them, any,
way. Now some people won't let their
children ''tell tales out of SCHOOL, as
they call it. But We encourage Them
to tell everything and so we know
what goes on at school just as it is.
They'll tell it all if you'll let 'em.
Our children say that Benson's big
gest boy is the meanest Teller in school
and leads in all the meanness. He is
an awful slick chap and he speaks
awful polite to the teacher, and most
everybody thinks he is nice boy.
He don't do much himself but he
Islands in' as he calls it with the
other boys and girls, and being pretty
smart he manages to get them to do
most anything he wants done. My
boys tell me that last winter he told
t e other boys that he wished some
r ills would fall down the well-pipe so
The scholars could go up to Merritt s
for water because Ben Merritt S white
rabbits was in a box in the milk house
and they could get to see them
So the next day sure enough the
pump at the school house wouldn
work and they sent for the director to
come over and fix it. And Bert, he
stood around like he wanted to help
and said he didn't she what had got
the matter with the we'll.
In The afternoon l saw him and
Warren Johnson on the road to Mer-
rit's with the water-pail and they said
the director couldn't get the pump to
work till he got help.
Mrs. Merritt said she didn't want
the boys coming there for water for
she couldn't have anything let alone.
Tue boys went in to see the rabbits
and she says they must have took the
pieces Of rubber out of her wringer
for they was gone next wash-day and
the valve in the pump got out OF order
SO that the water wouldn't run but one
way.
So the board and some more went
TO the schOol-house to fix the pump
They had to dig a couple of days to
get to the cylinder and they. 6rawed
up four b g rocks that come out of the
foundation of the school house and
several large Jumps of coal that the
boys had thrown in and other things
too numerous to mention. When they
got the cylinder cap off they found Il |
chunk of wood and three or four nails |
under the valve. Some of the men
that was helping allowed that boys
chat did that way needed tbrashiny. |
But the general opinion seemed to be |
that boys would be boys and the di-
rector went to town and got a new CYL |
inder and nothing more was said |
about it.
From what the children say l guess |
Bert's responsible for most OF the
damage done about the school, but
my Oldest boy, Clinton, says l mustn't |
give it away for if Bert found ont that
he'd been telling things none of our
children could have book, or a ball (