The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-09-13
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
For School Directors, by Supt. Samuel
Hamilton, of Allegheny Comfy.


profit by school directors gener
allJ. While there are schoo
boards that are interested IN the
care of the school property, and
especially IN the sanitary condi
tions surrounding the schools
there are others who feel that
when they have elected teachers
they have filed the measure OF
their duty, and they let the thou.
sand and one other things take
care of them selves. But here are
Hamilton s questions
Are the school grounds proper
ly fenced, or are the vagrant hogs
of the nelghborhood permitted to
held public meetings on the
school lot or in the schoolhouse
cellar?
Are the outbuildings in strict
conformity with the law and have
they been properly cleaned and
disinfected -?
Are their doors hung without
either hinge or latch, or do you
regard these as non essential to
clubhouse architecture
Are these outbuildings kept in
respectable condition, or are
they dismal, dirty, dingy, disa-
greeable and disgraceful, devil
devised dens, with sin scratched
walls and sin producing sugges.
tions
Is their condition repulsive to
the fine tastes and pure moral
tone of the child p?
Are they what they should be,
or are they "seminarles OF SIN, :"
whose vicious, venomous, voice.
less, vice producing virus is suf-
fcient to annul the whole moral
influence of the best of teachers !?
Was the well or spring cleaned
during vacation, or are they filled
with decaying and death dealing
vegetable or animal matter
Has the pump handle and a
spout, and are you sure that the
supply of water for your school
Is both pure and abundant?
Is there knob on the door, and
glass in the windows, or was your
school building the gloomy abode
of bats and tramps during the va
cation.
Have you placed fastenings on
the shutters of your buildings, or
is the teacher compelled to invoke
the aid of a friendly rail from
neig hboring fence to keep them
quiet on windy day
Do the tapping Of the shutters
In the wlntry wind ever seem to
you the spiritual rapplngs of some
departed director who failed to
do his duty to the school while in
the flesh, and thus in aimless, end
less restlessness returns with the
signing and moaning of the storm
tiend as warning to the living
Are there shades upon the win
dows, or does the binding sun
beat in upon the unprotected
heads of the children, impairlng
the delicacy and power of the hu-
man eye for all time?
Was the stove polished prior to
the opening of school, or is itstlll
covered with the incrustation of
rust and tobacco juice that have |
been accumulated during all the |
political campaigns held 1t it since
the days of General jackson
Is there a door on it with two
whole hinges, and does the wide
crack ir It's bowl, from which ex-
udes deadly gases to stifle the
children and retard their mental
add anything to it's beau.
by and utility,
Has the building been thor
oughly scrubbed and cleaned dur
ng the memory of the Oldest IN
or in the solemn phrase
II the law, whereof the memory |
of man runneth not to the con
trary," or do you think a school
house should be cleaned every
twenty-five years, whether 1T
needs 1t or not?
II the once white Gn the remote
m aet\ hut nnxg hromnad s.hcrl