Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-09-25
RULES or SCHOOL
MUST Be OBEYED.
Supt. Mathis Writes Card To
Parents.
THEIR COOPERATION is URGED.
Pupils Must Not Assemble at Schools
Before Opening Hour - Parents
Should Aid Supt Mathis in Enforc-
ing the Rules.

Since the public schools were re-
opened two weeks ago considerable
annoyance has resulted in the assem-
bling of pupils upon the campus be-
fore the opening hour, a clear viola
lation of one of the prescribed rules of
the schools. Upon this subject Snpt.
Mathis addresses the following card TO
the parents of school children:
Please let me call your attention to
three rules governing the pupils in
the public schools.
Rule 4s-''Pupils shall not be per
mitted to assemble about the school
premises in the morning before the
sounding of the first signal, nor to re-
main after the dismissal of school"
A moments reflection will convince
you that this is good rule. The
teachers are required to be at their
places fifteen minutes before school
opens; hence, if the children come to
school before time there will be no one
to take charge of them nor toilet them
into the building if the weather is bad.
l cannot understand why some par
ents are so anxious to get rid of their
children. / have seen children, on a
cold rainy morning, standing about
the school doors an hour before the
time for school to begin, and from the
parents OF these same children come
frequent complaints that the children
are forced to remain out of doors in
bad weather when they, in some cases.
do not live a block from the school.
Again, when the weather is good two
or three hundred children, with no
one to take charge of them, are liable
to get into mischief-not your child,
of course, but some other child is apt
to start it.
am sure that nearly all families
have some kind of time piece that
can be kept correct within five min
utes by the city clock, and the time
for leaving home can be fixed in &C
cordance with the distance from the
school.
Since the change in schedule the
"shoofy" train comes to the station
near FurIow School just about the
time children should be leaving for
school, but every morning finds a
crowd of children lettering about the
station,
Complaint was made to me by an
official last week, saying on that morn
ing he had saved boy from being run
down by a switch engine. The little
fellow was laying cross pins on the
track TO be mashed into "scissors" by
the approaching passenger train and
he did not notice the switch engine
backing up from the opposite direc-
ton. Fortunately an official was near
enough to run to HIM and Jerk him
from almost under the wheels,
Rule 52.-"All pupils shall go di-
rectly to and from school"
Rule 81. -''Pupils will render them
selves liable to suspension or expul
sion by persistent violation of any OF
the rules of the school,
All the necessary things to know and
to be done are not learned from books.
GIVE the children some little tasks in
home affairs that it shall be theirs to
do before leaving for school, and re-
quire these things of them,
Any system that secures knowledge
to a child without work is likely to be
hurtful and end in degeneration. 1t
is necessary to know how to read, for
in books are bubbling springs of phil
anthropy, patriotism, love for truth,
herolsm and religion, but the mind
and heart Of child of six years are not
too young to have uncovered in them
the springs of love for home and help
fulness to mother.
But am depressing, Please help us
in carrying into effect Rule As and
Rule SO in order that it may not be
necessary to apply Rule 81. Sincere
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