The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-14
HoMnlE COUNTY, $ D, rHURsDAY. FEBRUARY IL 1907
County School Notes
EDITED by tic County superintendent

County School Notes
Edited by the County Superintendent
am not SO much concerned as
to what you believe or say you he
llieve, oy think you believe, but /
am nightly concerned about what
you do, how you practice the divine
art Of teaching if you do this work
unWorthily, stupidity. blindly. ard
slavishly, you are bondsmen and
bondswomen unworthy Of your call
ing s. d. Educator.
We visited two schools last week
where clean sash-curtains, good
shades clean white washed walls
adorned with tasty passeportouted
pictures and specimens Of busy,
work and language work (that
would do credit to a town SCHOOL
polished stoves and busted furni-
Jure presented such an appearance
as can not fail to teach lastings.les-
sons Of house keeping. We visited
another school where a teacher re-
ceiving forty dollars a month is do
ing eighty dollars worth Of work,
she is virtually hoisting those pu-
pills to a higher plane of education
than they have known heretofore.
1t is to be regretted that such teach
ers as these are soon called away
from the rural schools by better Of
fers.
Certificates of Award have been
issued the past week to Gertrude
Hanlon, Edward Michel, Albert
Shimek, Tony Eiehlbauch, Lucy
'Ihum, Elsie Zelenka, Ruth Linka,
John Linka, Lydia Linka, Emil
Kloucek, Joseph Pekas, Katherine
Halla, George Wagner, Ludmilla
Wagner, Nels Kvanli, Martin Aren-
sson, Carl Einrem, Floyd Witten-
myer, Chas. De Nuei.
OF the rural schools, Valley View
No. 8, with Marie Hyizdalek as
teacher, leads in the number of
certificates acquired since January
rst-haying four to its credit.
Examination questions:
1. Why is it good business to Of
fer more for teachers than is offer
ed for unskilled labor2
2. Why should good teacher
not receive as high wages as good
bricklayer, plasterer, painter, etc !?
3. Why should nearly the same
methods and conditions obtain in
the rural schools today as obtained
there when the family rode to
church in an old rickety wagon
with pine boards for seats and
drawn by a poor old team harness
ed largely with rope, when the
farmer scarcely dared to glance at
the local paper for fear 'of finding
his farm advertised under mortgage
sale?
a Why should agriculture not be
taught in the rural schools; how
are those five or six achildren you
are bringing up to make living
without intensive scientific farm
ing when you divide your quarter
OF half section among them.
5. Why is a poor teacher dear al
any price.
The following topics will be dis
cussed at the officers meeting:
1. Teachers qualifications and
salaries.
2. Needed improvements in and
around the school.
8. Shall agriculture be taught in
the rural schools.
4. Hiring teachers.
5. Officers duties.
6. Other questions of interest.
These meetings will be held al
Springfield on Feb. 20, Tyndall or
the 23rd, Tabor on theI27, Scotland
on the 1st. of March and Avon or
the 9th of March.
All who are interested are urgent,
ly requested to attend.
Some teachers do not send in
monthly reports. We can moi
know, without going out to see, thai
they are living.
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