The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-27
PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLMENT
Ahead Of All Records for Previous
YearS,

Ahead Of All Records for Previous
Years.
Rapid City public schools opened
on Monday with an enrolment quite
in keeping with that of former first
days, and today, Friday, the attend
ance is known to be ahead of all pre-
vious records for the first week, and
the full attendance had not as yet
been reached.
In brief talk ednesday morning
with Superintendent j. G.. Blyman,
The Union finds that there is more
marked spirit of enthusiasm among
the pupils than has been evidenced
in the years past. There seems to
have been an awakening from the in
fant class to the graduate which
makes for the betterment of school
life. In comparison with former
years the attendance is much larger,
perhaps one-third larger, than usual;
every available seat in the various
grades is being taken. No particu-
lar line of new work has been intro
duced for the year.
The schools start the year under
most favorable conditions and un-
der. the supervision of Prof. Blyman
and the following corps of efficient
instructors: Mary p. Huff, Mildred
NcComb, Harriet Davis. Matte. e
Michael, Ella Toomey, Claudia Thorn
son, Margaret Thomas, Bertha Chap
man, NJ Maud Miller, Agnes Fer
guson, Lucy Buchanan, Laura Platt,
Millicent Hall and Amy Leary, who
4iorm the superintendHnt's cabinet
.amily, much may be expected which
tends to be an uplift for the schools
in Rapid City. This corps of teach
ers is representative of the best in
South Dakota's coterie. of educators.
There is not, according to Supt. Bly,
man, a stick of knotty timber in his
official family. Coming. as they do
from, institutions Of learning where
nothing but the best is good enough
for them along instructive lines,
fresh from Institutes where theory
and practice are blended into per-
feet harmony, where the different
phases of school life are discussed
and rounded out, and where the per-
picking problems of the teacher are
solved. we can expect much and sure
ly we have faith in our expectations,
for by their works we shall know
them.
The new school law which has
just gone into effect has made some
sweeping effects in the matter to
which it pertains, especially in the or
ganization of the system of the pub
lie schools of the state.
The subject Of compulsory educa-
ton received considerable attention,
making the parents OF. guardians re-
sponsible for the attendance of the
pupils in school, between the ages
of eight and thirteen years for the
entire term during which the school
is held. 1t is in the power Of the
board of enducation to reduce the
time to sixteen weeks, twelve of which
must be consecutive. The fine che
parents or guardians are liable to is
not less than $40 nor more than $50
fer each violation of the compulsory
law.
The law also fixes the amount of
high school tuition which must be
psid by the district in which the
eighth grade pupil graduates, and not
to exceed 81 per month for those tax
ing such high school instruction.
In a recent issue Of the Omaha
World Herald under the caption of
THE Teacher and the Child, we
find his bright story, and believing
dt to be wholesome, give it space:
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