The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24
ANN 7 ELL, what are you going to
w do when you finish your

w course at the university9n
asked young instructor Of senior
coed.
1eoh, I suppose I'll teach,'' replied
& the girl "Most of the graduates
teach, and 1 guess it IS about as easy
as anything, besides requiring no spe-
cializing if you teach in the public
e schools. -
elf that's the reason you are going
to teach, would advise you to follow
some conscientious schoolteacher for
one day before seeking the position,'
! answered the teacher. "The work is
all right and most teachers enjoy it,
but not for the reasons you have
given.' ~
The college girl wondered why her
81 friend had answered as she did. The
more she thought the more she won
dered, and finally decided that the only
way to solve the little mystery would
be to follow directions.
The coed had another friend who
taught school, and hint was thrown
out and accepted. The seeker for an
easy thing in the Minneapolis schools
arranged to spend day with one Of
|, those woman who sacrifice the best
L years Of their lives that the community
may be wiser as it grows older.
The first thing, Miss Investigator
found was that the teachers workday
begins at 6 O'Clock in the morning, or,
IF not at that time, at whatever mo-
Sent she arises. Nearly every success
full teacher will say that her first
thought on rising is Of the school and
how to make it better. She plans and
worries and wonders until breakfast
Slime, and then eats hurriedly, threat
aening her health, grabs a bundle as
big as family washing and rushes
FOR the car.
The car plays no small part In a
hoolteacher's daily life. If the cars
/ are we'll lighted the trips to and from
school are spent in study or looking
/ lover the test papers of the children.
It is the exception and not the rule
3f teacher arrives at the school build
ing later than 8 O'Clock. When she
! gets there she does not waste time to
visit another room and talk over ex-
/ Periences with another teacher. She
starts to work and keeps at it con-
itinually until school is called. The
blackboard must be covered with les.
sons that the youngsters may all see
ana everything TO be used during the
/ day must be inspected. This done, she
| may snatch little time before calling
classes to work on the register.
= = +
The register is a hideous monster
]. that has caused more restless nights
and wretched days than anything else
on the monotonous program Of the
teacher. It's queer complications would
~ puzzle the experienced bookkeeper, and
the teacher has yet to be found who
/ ever had all the time she needed tc
\ devote to it. The register must be
kept up to date. In it are contained
summaries of the life and work Of each
pupil. The daily attendance record OF
each pupil, his nativity record (Which
IS IN reality life history of himself
and his parents), and his measurements
are fully chronicled in the volume The
child s measurements are taken for the
physical culture record much the same
as they are taken in the gymnasium
classes at the university.
The complete school record of each
pupil since he entered school is also
put in the register. The great trouble
book must show at glance how Ions
the pupil has attended school and wher.
he attended every semester. Added tt
this 1t must show how many days hi
attended Of every semester since be
ginning school and how many days h
was absent. The last column indicates