The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-02-22
IN HIGH SCHOOL
IS A THING OF the PAST
Board Of Directors Addressed Pupils on
Monday Morning on Their Duties
as Students.

The trouble that has existed for a
short time in the high school. wherein
number of students and past and
present instructor were concerned, has
been adjusted on basis that is salts
factory to the board the superintend
ent, the teachers and the pupils. The
white winged dove OF peace hovers over
the scene. and the school work is pro-
crossing in manner that guarantees
freedom from friction and a maximum
amount of work and study throughout
the remainder of the term. and. in fact.
for many succeeding terms. The set
Element was reached after careful CON
sideration of every phase of the mat
ter by the board, whose decision was
that all the pupils suspended by Mr. Be-
YER should be re-instated upon CARRYING
out certain conditions; the terms were
accepted by the pupils and complied with
in all but few individual cases. Those
VINO have not yet returned have indicat-
ed their intention to do so. and the mat
ter may be regarded as settled The on
ly regret expressed is that it should
have been give so much notoriety but
the guaranty OF good behavior of the
pupils in the future will soon cause
this unpleasant feature to be forgotten
When school took up Monday morning
nearly all of the suspended pupils were
back in their places. A few were alb
sent, although they had announced their
intention of being in their places The
members of the board were all pres.
emit and each made a brief address to
the pupils.
President Barge spoke in his usual
kind and paternal manner, Gliding the
pupils as children who had erred in
judgment and without serious intention
or wrong desires had done that which
they should know to be not right. He
reminded them that they had no right,
moral or otherwise, to Illustrate the
wishes of their teachers or to act contra
ry to the provisions of the state law.
The "class spirit" which seems to have
misled some of the pupils in the late un.
pleasantness was thing all right and
commendable in its place, but it should
never lead the pupils of school into
open and wilful disobedience; they ow-
ed to their teachers respectful obedience
and to the taxpayers who bore the ex-
pense of the schools due considerations
His remarks reached the hearts of the
pupils. and when he asked all of the
ninth. tenth. eleventh and twelfth grades
who We're willing to show and Endorsed
belief in obedience to teachers and to
the law of the state to stand up. they
rose promptly and without a single ex-
ception. After congratulating them on
their wise decision, he assured the pu.
pills that their interests were his. and
that any who felt that he or she had
grievance would easily find proper and
effective way of bringing the matter be-
fore the school board, where it would
receive all due considerations
District Clerk r. X. Nichols followed
with a few remarks. President Barge,
he said. had given the position of the
board in the matter, but he explained it
little further, prefacing his talk with
the statement that you are not mem,
bers OF university: You are not mem
bers of a college: you are not members
of an academy, but you are simply
members OF the ninth, tenth, eleventh
and twelfth grades of the North Yakima
public schools. The public schools Of
this and every other county in the state
are sustained mainly by money from the
state. and they are all under the state
law, to which all pupils are amenablc.
whether they want to be or not These
laws prescribe the duties OF the boards
of education. and among other things
require them to see that discipline in the
schools is maintained by the teachers.
1t is the duty of school board TO see
that every teacher does maintain disci-
plne, and in the event Of their being UNI
able to do so. to see that teachers are
substituted who will carry out the ex-
press provisions of the law. The law
provided and called for enforcement of
the provision that if pupils were DISC
bedient they must sever their connec-
ton with the schools, and if any of
them did not like this provision of the
law of the state, they might walk out
and stay out"
Mr.. Nichols then called for an expires.
sion of the attitude of the pupils who
were assembled, and gave q moments
time for any who did not desire to rem
der strict and respectful obedience in the
future to the teachers, and TO observe all
the laws that govern the schools, to
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