The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-01-16

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Teachers WHO absent themselves
habitual'y from teachers meetings
may find it difficult to- get another
certificate under the present super
vision.
Certificates Of Award have been
issued to Daisy Holshire. John and
Frank Gaetze, Miss Myrtle Holshire.
teacher.
Ralph Milliken, of this city, at
present a student at Stamford Uni
versity in California, is reading
Livy, Salhest and Nenophon. day
and night. in his preparation for his
examination for a Cecil Rhoades
scholarship. This office will use
every possible influence in the young
mans behalf.
The suggestion from this Office
that the smaller schools be discon-
tinued and the pupils sent to the
larger ones nearby is finding a logical
response. Tobin No. II are sending
their pupils to Lisbon No. q. The
one months difference in the
classification of the two schools,
threw Miss Pearson into ssdeep
water" when she united them, but
the difficulty will soon be eliminated.
Teachers, if you will select the
mispelt words in your pupils written
work and use them for their spelling
lessons, you will be reducing your
~orthographical instruction to a more
practical common-sense basis by
teaching them to spell the very
words that belong to their vocabu-
lafies instead of words that they will
never use.
The Ethan Enterprise has engaged
Prof. Gallagher who has charge Of
the Ethan school, to write some
schools notes relative to the Ethan
school for publication each week
The first ones appeared in the last
issue, and Prof. Gallagher took adj
vantage ofsthe opportunity to deliver
a H~knock-out blow to the parents
who are so Indifferent to their child
ems welfare that they only send
them to schools one to two days each
week, The editor of the paper ad-
monishes those whom the shoe fits
to put it on and not get 'ssore.n
Last week the superintendent be-
gan his second term Of office. His
hrst o~ttiicalact was to pronounce judg-
ment on two school feuds that have
been in existence for a long time
both of them resulting tom similar
causes-ignorance Of the law. The
same policy will be pursued toward
such matters as these for the next
years as has been in the past,
to-Wit: (al the evidence heard on
both sides; ~ all of the law touch
ing on the matter carefully investi-
(c) those who are in the
wrong told SO and the reasons why
they are wrong carefully explained
ID the guilty parties admonished in
forceful English to refrain from
those things that would tend to re-
new the difficulty. This policy has /
luieted down several neighborhoods
and placed the unfriendly ones On {
the most cordial good terms. {
The school apportionment was
made last week: Amount on hand,
72O. So; undrawn warrants in fayor |
Of Nos. 6 and 80, 1888. 56; amount
apportioned, Sl,632. 12-prorata, $40.
The apportionment is much smaller
than it ought to be. Who can help
It under the present law? There are
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars Of
school money lying idle. Ten thous-
and dollars have been advertised in
The papers Of this county for weeks
without any response. 1t shows |
positively that the same condition. ]
If affairs will continue to exist and (
even grow worse so long as we con-
tinue to sell our school lands. Goy-
ernor Herried has suggested a change
IN the law In his biennial message.
49, 40 Vail Il1dG UlC UTeSGQUI
condition Of affairs will force the ]
legislature to act on the matter.
There is another abominab.e feature
Of the law, discussed in this column
that is its apportionment on
the basis Of the number OF children
in each district as shown by the
school census. In the apportionment
just made Tobin No. Is got 1876, 40 be-
cause they had such a large census in
1902, and Union No. 9 got only 81. 90,
yet it costs i%dentically the same
amount to run each of the schools.
Is it not plain to every thoughtful
person that.the state funds should
be divided equally among the differ
ent schools Of the county?
The superintendent faced the
storm to Mt. Vernon last Saturday to
hold teachers meeting, little expect