The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-06-23
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SCHOOLS

The attendance banners were won
for the closing month by the follow.
ing rooms: Lincoln School, Miss
Thomas, 1886; Mr.. Hinshaw, 1903;
Miss Williams, 9637; Mrs. Leslie,
$500; Grant School, Miss Augustine,
1871; Miss Hort, $685.; Whittier
School, Miss Glaze, 9453; Miss Reid,
1925. The high school has the high
est per cent of attendance, viz, 9772
Perfect punctuality is recorded in
rooms presided over by the following
teachers: Lincoln School, Kenwor,
thy, Thomas, Conoyer, Lichtenheld
Owen, Hinshaw. Jefferson School,
Burkett, Washburn, Pendray, McFad.
den, Forsyth, Leslie, Cricket. Grant
school, Marten, Ware, Thomas, Angus
tine, Hort, Erwin. Whittier school,
Drinkle, Baxter, Ruan, Reid, Schneid.
err Vannest. Jefferson school cap
lures the banner for punctuaTfty with
the high percentage of 1899. At a
later time we propose giving com.
parative statement on punctuality and
attendance for the entire school year.
Some of the schools will be able to
present a remarkably fine record in
these lines.
To-day as never before the people
are inquiring into the management of
public institutions which they have
set up for their welfare; national,
state and municipal affairs are being
scrutinized with care and those in
charge made to give a strict account
of their stewardship. Institutions for
the public veal are therefore coming
more and more to respond to public
demands and as far as possible attain
the ideal established as the goal to be
realized. The public school system
in conformity with this proposition. is
constantly undergoing modification in
its effort to be felt as vital force in
the community life. The following
questions submitted to business com.
munity recently will indicate some of
the means employed to accomplish
this purpose: l.. Will you suggest
anything that we can do which will
promote better health among child
rem? 2. If you have found your child.
rem weak in arithmetic, please state
whether it is in accuracy, in speed or
in the general knowledge of the sub
ject. 8. Do you favor the Introduce
ion of Domestic Science, including in
struction in cooking, sewing and
. haII nyly fx>t- sNf
girls who are to become housekeep-
ers, A. Do you favor the teaching of
municipal affairs in the schools to
such extent that children may know
the duties of the various officers of
the city? s. Are you In favor OF put.
ting more money into the schools in
order to secure greater efficiency, and
to carry out the ideas you have sane.
toned above? We wish to commend
the above questions to the business
and professional men of our own com
munity and sincerely request that
they make any suggestions to the
local school management docking to-
ward greater efficiency in our own
public school system.
AS one means OF making the public
school more responsible to local en-
vironment and fitting boys and girls
to live and helpful and useful lives as
citizens the school, garden movement
is one of the most important. We
have not the intention OF giving a his
tory of this movement but shall quote
from two or three authorities bearing
on this particular question.
The same thinking, willing, doing,
the same patience that enters into the
care OF the plant or the fiedgling
bird will enter later into the care of
the home and children c. F.
Hodge, Clark University
The work OF gardening is all whole
some and conducive to make better,
stronger boys and girls and more in
dustrious law-abidihg citizens. - Lou
is Klein Miller, Curator of School
Gardens. Cleveland, Ohio.
The American Civic Associations
"thes'frm conviction that there is no
more potent influence for better civic
conditions inl America than the edu.
Gated youth, in whom there is develop
ed this critical assortment of beauty
and excellence in nature and art, an
abiding love for these things, and a
feeling OF personal responsibility for
better civic conditions, = 9t7 y
Furthermore, its members are firm.
" convinced that there is no more
efficient agency for the attainment of
those high ideals in education than
school garden work, properly correl.
lated with other school work." What
the rural child enjoys, and which
means solmuch to him In the forma.
ton. of ideals and character, as we'll
as physical stamina to endure, must