The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-04-14
EDUCATIONAL.
(BY G. w. MEISNEST.)


are thirty-one one-room schools which
are heated with furnaces. y good
many Of these schools have sheds or
stables for the horses of those who
drive to school. Concrete approaches
to the school house from the road are
quite common: likewise, concrete plat
| forms around the wells. The State
Inspector recently visited eighteen
schools of this county, and of the eigh-
| teen found but two in which the seats
were not so arranged that the children
could be comfortable. Some of the
schools had rugs and mating in the
| school room, and everything looked as
clean as good home. This, of course,
| is not possible in a school room heated
| by an old fashioned stove in the center
ana without cloak room. In this
county nearly every school has good
pictures on the walls, and the walls
papered or painted. Every school has
library, though sometimes the books
are not well adapted to the children
and the work of the school. There are
twenty-four schools in this county
which come up to the recently adopted
standard and hold the diploma to
that effect.
There are twenty-seyen counties IN
Illinois which have assistant county
superintendents. This county Is a
good large county, and is not one OF
the twenty-seyen. It's present condi-
tion is attributed 10y the State inspect
or to the fact that the Office OF the
county uperintendent IN that county
has been stable one ever since the
passage of the Act of May q, 1889.
ALFRED BAYLISS IN Ncbool NcwS.
PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION
.,.,,,, NJ ,l,, ra,, o.,,l, =, ulir,i. IN
h,;1l;,,, -, ..olool sentiment is hainu
,o,.o,,,,,li.l,od tl,ro,,,,b ,t-tnochnr.
,..,,i,,,io,,, po,o,,ts do ,nt. rood odY-
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t,o,l,,,..., i,,.,i,,,+o... thoy do NOT ,,, to
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,hiIo incroo.ino its srocn for ed,,ca-
tic,,,l n,,torioI doc. NOT r;vo , ,rraot
ao,l ,,ot .,ir,rIate. i,torn.t o,, otrords
very ,rpch rool l,nowIedoe Of thc biob-
or, and bo,ter ,,rnsnnt d,,. school ideals
| p,rants arc no, to he bIomrd for NOT
l,,oo.iro, r,o,,o ,h,,,t .chool aims and
method, ., these have dcvcloped in.re-
cont voory Thoy h.vp hoJ M wav 70
Gpa amt ohont those thinos
Now tbe uorent-teacbcr association
i inst thn thino to hrino about the in
tnro.t and rooneration or narents Par
ont. want to know about better plons
,rhov w,nt "a know ab,ui thc place
and yalun of orricult,Irc in thc schools.
ahout the values of better buildings
and rround.. ohnut the values of flower
| bods in the ward and picturcs on the
y.,II.. thn,, oro onvious to find ont the
,rntb ,ho,,t consolidated schools and
township hioh schools. about bows
corn ,Iuhs and pjrIs' culturc Clubs. A.
ho,t manual training and household
! arts 1bDllt everything which may Toe
usnl to mako the school work richer
and better parent-tcocher associa-
tinn- afford iust tha chance needed 10
ION thnn, ,hout. those and IA consider
in how far your own school can do
some or the hest thinos
C,II , ,nnotino of youn, uatrons and
of the teachers children. and natrons
! or tv,o. or three nniohhorinw districts
for some Friday evening as soon as Won
cam Have a little program of rcrita-
| fon. and nusir nv the children osltjno
tbe nciuhhorino schools each to rive a
rr,nbnr ar two. You. as thc teacher,
rive tho norents Iittlo tank about
how tbe narnnts can holm tbe school
moro and how Won want the school TO
helm them more. Have a sneaker pre-
semi 10 rive a substantial talk on the
need, of schools of to-day of the
chanros in recent ynors and of tbr
possibilities Of yourown school and the
ncighboring schools to have such a
school as i, really needed. Get your
county superintendent for this meeting
if you can. lfyou can't get him, write
to the nearest state normal school for
one Of it, teachers 10 come. At the
close, organize a parcnt-tcachcr asso-