Gilpin observer., 1908-02-13
NEvADAvILLE SCHOOL NOTES.

The following program will be rem
dered at Cannon s hall Thursday evening,
Feb. 20, beginning at O'Clock, by Ne
vadaville schools, assisted by vocal and
instrumental talent outside of the school:
Song Columbia ............S School
Recitation-After the Battle. .
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Ethel Dickerson
Recitation. ....... Chalmer Rutherford
Vocal Solo,. o........... Lillian Murley
. Recitation George Washing done.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Bennie Waters
Vocal Duet-The Quarrel. .. Willie
Warren, Willie. Roberts, Elizabeth
James and Flora Hutchens.
Flag Drill. rill...........B BY Sixteen Girls
Song. ............ Primary Department
Five Minutes Intermission
Song ............ Primary Department
Recitation -Coville's Mishap. ...
...................D Dorothy Bolsinger
Vocal Duet. t.... Florence Maddern and
Viola Richards.
Recitation. n............ Edith Dickerson
Piano Duet. ........ Bessie Clark and
Beatrice Richards.
Recitation -Toussaint L L'Overture. ...
Observation-Disclosures. Delmor Brown
Vocal Solo. Viola Richards
Recitation-Th Unknown Rider ....
Observation-Disclosures. Pearl Nichols
Piano Solo. lo................Pr Prof. Taylor
Dialogue-A Meeting at Pumpkinville
Vacal Solo. Philip L. Barter
Song The Morning Ramble. . School
What is the result of periodic alb
senteeism, beyond the loss of the class
as a whole, the loss entailed on the alb
sentee, and the bad example it throws
around others. c Nothing can so COM
pletely breakld down or scatter teach
er's store of enthusiasm for beginning
the days work. Nas to behold the first
thing in the morning as he or she glances
over the pupil body, that several are ab-
sent who ought Ito be there, and would
be there if parents were rightly dispos-
ed to take more serious view of the
situation. 1T puts the teacher quite in
the same frame of mind as it does the
members of family who gather around
the table at meal time, when it sudden
ly dawns on them that one member of
the family is not able to partake with
them. 1t biights teachers hopes,
thwarts his purposes, and skaters his
plans for doing successful work, to come
into the school room day after day and
find himself confronted with broken
class ranks. Why? Teachers know to
tions, much of the class work will have
to be gone over again for the benefit of
the absentees. The absentees know
this nearly as well as the teacher. An
absentee who was being taken to tasl,
for being needessly absent so much,
when told that it took much of the
teachers time, as well as much of the
time, which by rights belonged to the
class, to bring him up to fair rating
with the average work done by the class,
had the impudence to ask the teacher II
that was not what he was paid for.
Many parents take view quite similar
to this. No matter how bad the attend
ance some parents say, the teachers
ought not to feel badly toward parents
for such dire neglect, because they draw
their salary just the same, and the abb
sentees are the chief losers by the alb
senteeism. II would be just as sane fol-
u miner to overlook the fact, that while
he is working in mine where bad OF
foul air is present, because he gets the
common wage for doing it, he has nc
right to complain. Any abuse, that will
yield to a plan for getting rid of it.
ought to be eradicated from the system