Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-14
SCHOOL BOARD
CONVENTION
Annual Meeting of School Officers of
the County. Instructive
Addresses

Budget two weeks ago was carried out
in the main last Saturday when more
than seventy-five school officers and
number of teachers and others met at
the courthouse in this city under call of
the county superintendent w. N.
Mackin, to discuss the management of
schools and how to progress in edu-
cational lines. This was the largest
School Board Convention ever held in
Rusk county.
Supt. Mackin opened the meeting by
coming promptly to the discussion of
some of the most important things
that school officers should know. The
law allows very few days in which
an officer-elect may decline to serve,
after which he is liable to a heavy
penalty if he refuses to perform his
duties as prescribed by law, even
though he considers his salary made
quate. School boards should provide
promptly books, supplies, report cards,
and Harvey register for each school.
They should keep the buildings in good
condition and provide suitable wood.
They may encourage teachers to attend
Institutes and associations. The school
clerk should make three copies of the
census, one of which is to be kept at
the school house to aid the teacher in
making her report. The factory in
spector is also truant officer and may
be called upon to enforce the law COM
pelling parents to send their children to
school.
W. E. Larson, state rural school in
spector, gave an excellent address that
should increase an interest in ednca-
tion throughout the county. He said
that the school room is for the children
as much as room of the home and
should be as good or better than
room of the house at home He
showed the relation of educatisn to the
development of the state, to the pre-
servation of the fertility of the soil
and to better conditions of the people.
He advocated the formation of farmers
clubs with the schoolhouse as the
center, and the organization of rural
high schools.
Miss Mabel Harvey opened the after
noon program with some songs by the
pupils of the schools where she is
teaching the rudiments of music. The
children showed excellent training and
were heartily applauded.
Moral training in school was treated
by Few. j. E. Watson, who said that
it was important that morality should
be taught. Supt. Mackin reported
that he had read in this weeks Worlds
Chronicle of the Illinois law requiring
moral teaching for one half hour each
week. The Worlds Chronicle promises
to supply material to help the teacher
to give instruction in morals, and the
district can get this weekly paper with
the Wisconsin Journal of Education for
ST. year.
Prin. E. C. Gotham of the Lady
smith high school reminded the school
board of the changes that are going on
in matters of education and said that
where the parent turns his child over
to the state for training their should
be a guaranty of four things: l. That
the child's physical powers shall be
cared for. 2. That he shall have poll
tical training to make him fit to live
with his fellows as citizens. 3. Econo-
mic instruction, that he may be better
able to make living, i. e. to support
himself. 4. moral training. The High
School will do it's part to fulfill its
duty for those who have finished the
common school.
The County Training School is work
ing to help every school not to sup
plant any school, said Prin R. H. Burns
of that institution. He also said that
that the Training School is growing
and showed the need of larger build
ing than the one now in use.
The school officers looked pleasant
when Supt. Mackin, in the closing
address. said he and the teachers
could accomplish certain things tend
ing to progress with the help of the
school boards" and they seemed to
appreciate the prompt distribution OF
the certificates of attendance.
The school board convention has
come to be a necessity in a govern
ment like ours, where the people rule
in order to secure satisfactory progress
in an educational system.
The following were in attendance:
Atlanta-Chas. Fetting Jr., H. F.
Sleek, Mrs. F. S. Mexican, H. B.
Peterson, 0. E. Stromberg, Albin
Stromberg, F. S. Mexican, F, H.
Morse, c. Joyner, Neil Mcleod, Geo.
E. Miller, w. S. Vreeland, E. H.
Scott, Mrs. D. Joyner, Sever Serley,
J. B. Tromblay.
Big Bend-Isaac McCraken, G. W.
Heaverin, T. G. Bennett, Mae I.
Stevens, Tom Jones, c. G. Nelson.
VIM. Kern.
Dewey Nels Wage.
Flambeau- E. Weston, Edwin
Hunt, P. M. Bell, Matt Edgar.
Grant Geo. Moore, V. Y. Miller,
M. G. Davis, S. Garfield.
Crow. w. Diederich, c. A. Paul,
Louis Hraban.