The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-11-20

COY AO WIZ w eAoA tho wa . VI
governing the child in the home
lie light, and this influence follows
the ohild TO the school room.
thereby making all the surround.
ings and work therein agreeable
and certainly more profitable.
There is another prolific source
of evil to our schools, and that is
many parents permit their ohil-
dren to gossip toe much about
what is going on in the school
room And l might right here say
that the teacher should always be
on the guard when speaking about
what traaspired in the school room.
There are two GLASSES of people,
you understand, one that talks too
much and the other. possibly. not
enough. Very much like Mrs.
Jones and Mrs Brown: Il detest
that Mrs Jones. che always tells
what her clothes cost +" well, l
detest that Mrs. Brown, she never
will tell what she paid for any
thing" So it is with school mat
ters. We have the talkatiye and
the secluded people to contend
with, but of the two we find the
cautious parent or the cautious
teacher with more friends than the
other kind.
There are many other ways for
the parent to help the teacher, but
not one of them can be enforced
or carried out without having the
right kind of a parent to do it, and
the parents today will not be the
parents with children in school
twenty years hence. The children
now in school will be the parents
then, and to them what may cay
today, if they were here would do
more good than the parents them.
selves.
1t takes reform ell along the line,
and when we have gotten the
younger people to appreciate and
understand what the parent's duii %
are to his child, they are then pre-
pared to enter upon life's duties
and to assume that most sacred re-
lationship, and train up child
in the way he should go, and he
will not depart from it,"
1 scarcely need say that good
literature in the home is an essen.
tial aid to the teacher. and partiou-
larly the Bible and encourage your
children to read it. Some good
newspapers like the Youths Com
panion and other kindred papers
should be on the reading table.
Parents should encourage children
to attend Sunday school and
church. and in fact require it, even
if the parent is too much "sot" in
his ways to go himself. Yet he
should have sense enough to let
the children go.
We, as parents in this great work
must STAND by the sohoolmaster,
and take some pride in saying
that the sentiment throughout the
country is strongly in favor of up
holding the hands of the teacher in
the great work that is before him
1t is a matter of some personal
pride to those of us who are oiti
zens and taxpayers of the Inde-
pendent School District of Point
Pleasant that we have such excel
lent facilities, to extend our teach.
ere. We have oommodious and
well. kept school house and attrao
tive and beautiful grounds and
surroundings. The salaries of the
teachers, while not more than they
should be, are more than We have
heretofore been accustomed to pay
To do this we tax ourselves sixty
cents on the hundred dollar valua.
ton of property, while all the rest
of the taxes both county and state
amount to thirty-one cents on the
hundred dollar valuation, and this
is paid unoomplaingly and cheer
fully.
might here remark that 1 do
not know of any better way for
parents to help the teacher than to
pay good salaries
1 heard minister once say that
it was fact, although he tried not
to show it, that he could preach
better when he got good pay and
prompt pay than at other places
where they did not pay. Now. l
may not go too far if 1 would sug-
gest that the teacher in that respect
is something like the minister.