The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-01-03
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What Should Be First
Omitted INTO eur Schools
ssdaress ef s. H { EdraIradd 1, Is


:ss body Of ssup perlnt tendent meets
'frsvn ear To- yea to discuss
those estiions whose soi iution may
prove bened edcial but alsotos
declare itself upon those educational.
doctrines which may become q partsof:
The creeds for mich We may standss
,I3Eiss is not q tive body but # It's
infusnce faiis fect legislation IN
50 faras such ion may pgssains
60 gducaHon assoeiad does not
come np TO resp onsfs fssiility OF exer-s
eisesa right ito which rs justly en-
titled auestion of portances
ard one on this body ssu-i
saaents never declared itsea.
is the carries age at hieh pupils
should be adnaitted into our public
schools The state law says sthat tbs
age shall be SIX and as 3 long this:
law remains Of eeHfse there rs no
but ssix-sa,lT:s ,;3
ways is It the dgmentS of the ss1ss
Iperintenden here assemgted thatSsix
years age isthe best age at which
pupils should be unto our
schools the cdaa itions nog exist
upils enter six and complete
the falI course lrescrabed In oars
schools at seventeen. ibeHe1 that
sof fife pupils should enter eight
they could eompIete the course sin
nine insteads of egen years
that the work That # now takes
'{wosgga first gradesco
horoagl1IIg comp pIeted one
year ahoth aauld be made
hetWeen the second
lsgades {. enteria
eight Woul hes same
amount 11o1V done s.
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tain branches Of sfudy ia tn
grades demands s,
tgsof mind end sNe egEastsssss|
the period al school 50 lsla1
these branches az reached the g Isssssss
VIII have attained the necessary ma
|fturitys This syttrsent of course
Of study the sfpJrt sniag OF the mum
Der Of hours daily school and the
Of the term ofsyears have
aIl resulted in a marking Of time,
waiting for the right age to arrive.
Some Of cur patrons realizing that.
the majority of parents NiI send their
children to school at an age as early
as the school law will permit, are
forced to send their own children at
the age Of six although they prefer to,
|have them enter for the first time at
|eight ghese who have this prefer
ence are forced to act contrary to
their wishes and judgment because.
they know that the schools must adj
just themselves to the law as it is and
not as il might be and for them to.
keep their children from school ustszll
they Should have attained the age de-
sired would be.ssto place them IN a
class of pupils younger han them
selves. Ready as they are to- proceed
it,, becomes necessary for them to
mark time also; for make whateger
fdivisions IN a grade that nsgseeu
toeus best, it is the majority of3Spupils
lin grade that at last determines its
progress.
We have in the first division Of our
first grade. this yeara Sufficient num-
Der of pupils older than six by at
least one or two years to show US that
if all of the pupils were OF that age Z
would be necessary for them to spend
only onesyear in that the first grade.
WHY'S this true? Because we know.
atgpupiis at the age Of six and sew
en- have reached one Of the most crit
icA periods of their lives. Many ply
Fsicians Will tell US today that teethirs
is not a. cause Of disease; but at this
period the disorders are due to a dis
turoed nervous condition and an in.
prudent diet. Mothers viii tell US