Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-29
oCOkEE COUNTYS SUMMER SCHOOL.
To be Held at WalhalIa, Beginning June I O.,
and Ending July 5.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

COLUMBIA, S. C.
To G. l.. Craig, County Superintendent
| of Education, Oconee county-Dear Sir
Your County Summer School will bo
gcsted by you, Juno 10th to July 9TH,
Tho Principal will be Superintendent
JAS. l.. Mann; tho assistant Prof. B. E..
Gcer, if these gentlemon accept
You will please at onco send personal
| notice to each of your teachers and each
of your trustees. Call to tho attention
| of your trustees the fact that the coun-
children attending them next session if
the teachers have meantime taken a
thorough course of study in the summer
| school for teachers under instructors
whose work has been in the best schools.
Urge upon your trustees that if there is
any money on hand to the credit of their
school districts, they cannot spend it
to the teacher for attendance upon the
summer school. This is very generally
done by the graded schools. Many coun-
try schools have adopted the policy.
| The idea is to send tho teachers off to got
new ideas for the children. That is pro
gress. OF course you will impress upon
your trustees the Importance of select
| in June or July at tho furthcst. This is
becoming the rule with all schools worthy
tho name. Any other course is unjust
to teacher and pupil alike.
Got the county newspapers to aid you
in giving publicity to tho facts about
the summer school, and tho policies that
trustees should pursue.
Several Of tho counties have notified
me of favorable action having been taken
by their boards along tho lines here indi-
| Gated.
The course of study will bear directly
upon tho work to bo dOno in the schools
by tho teachers. There will be instruc.
tion in school management, and cspo-
cially in geography and grammar, using
the newly adopted books, and aiding the
teachers to make the best possible use of
these books. The publishers have con
sented, in order to aid our teachers. and
to help each teacher to become provided
with copy for her own private uso i'm
hcr daily teaching hereafter, to soil these
books to actual teachers attending tho
summer schools at less than half price.
Buchlcr's grammar will DO reduced from
!5 cents to 20 cents; Fryc's geography
tho understanding that tho County Su-
pcrintcndents will order and sell tho
books, and tho principal of tho school
furnish to the publisher tho names of
tho teachers who are enrolled in the
school and entitled to buy at this prico.
You will tako care to havo a supply of
tho books on hand in time. Very truly
yours, John j. McMahan,
State Superintendent Education.
| think anv ono who knows the benefits
| to be derived from the Teachers Sum
mcr School can fully endorse what Mr..
McMahan has written i'm tho above letter.
| 1t is a great opportunity. All the teach
crs ought to avail themselves of tho ad-
vantagos thus afforded. Teachers who
attend Institutes never speak against
them. They take rank as our most pro-
| grossiyo and successful. Tho Board is
very anxious for all tho teachers to at
| tend the Institute, and in order for thom
| to have tho opportunity the trustees of
| tho various school districts are requested
| to have no school from 10th of Juno to
9Th of July. G. l.. Craig,
County Superintendent Education.