Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-05
school,. NOTES

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The children take the greatest pride
in prompt attendance. At the be.
ginning of last year the number Of
cases was as great as IS a month.
Now there have been only cases
in six weeks.
| The school building is now in
a better state of repair than it has
been for many years. better at least
than it has been since the period of
hard times. This is due to the pub
lie spirit of the board and the pride
of the pupils.
Why do not the patrons come to
visit the school and see what it is
doing1 A special invitation is CIV
en- to everybody in Meade to visit
US on Friday of this week. Invita-
tions have been sent out to the
patrons but all are invited to come.
The best time however to visit
school is not on special day but at
a time when the school has its every
day clothes on and no one is ex-
pected. The school is glad to well
come a visitor at any time.
If any former student of the Meade
schools who now lives away from the
county should happen to read these
notes why not sit down at once and
write to US. Tell US what you are
doing and tell US too about the old
days when you were here. Remini-
sciences of old days are always en-
tertaining and the students of today
would hear the reading of such let
ter with the greatest interest.
This Is the time of the year when
a boy is not to be blamed if he had
rather go fishing or play ball than to
be in school The parent who lets the
spring fever take the pupil out now
is dong him a serious injury. He
cannot be promoted and next autumn
he will not want to enter same grade
he left this year. He will fit in no
grade and will want more than ever
to drop out. Many boy dates
the downfall of his school career to
longing in the spring for outdoor
exercise and to lack of frmness on
the part of his pzreutvg
This brings us to the subject of
sports in schools. Patrons should
not complain if the principal gives
the students every opportunity to
play ball in these warm spring days.
In the end the enthusiasm and cour-
age developed on the ball field may
do the boy as much good as the
lessons in Geography. One thing
is certain: no more powerful infu-
cnce can be brought to bear on a
boy to keep him in school than de-
sire to bexin the ball team and to
take part In the games. This may
not be the highest motive to bring
boy to school but the inducement to
put before a boy is the one that
works.
1t has been arranged between the
two principals to have an athletic
meet at Ashland on April IL. They
expect to have contests in Basket
Ball, Base Ball, Tennis, Running
Jumping, Vaulting and other athletic
sports. Friends of the school and
lovers of good sports should plan to
60 with the school teams to Ashland.
At later date the school there ex-
poets to come here for the same kind
of a contest.
Many parents think their children
must go to a large city or to great
school in order to have advantages.
1t is cheerfully conceded that they
can have better teachers in the
large schools than they have in the
Meade High School but this is only
one side of the story. In the large
schools the pupil is put into large
classes where the opportunity for
personal help from the teaches is
limited and where the chance to do
poor work wishout detection is great.
Students in the large city schools do
no better work on the average than
Is done in our little high school.
The records of the colleges show that
Igraduates from the large cities make
no better records in their classes
than those from the little village
schools. If the people here will
give their energy and their money tc
help their own public schools a:
cheerfuliy as they pay money tc
send their children away they viii
have school right here at home
that will do for their children al
that any school can do.