Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-01-06
i'll be changed to first class schools

will be changed to first class schools
this year.
Two new State Graded schools have
been organized, one at Sheldon and
one at Maple Hill, each of which will re-
ceive two hundred dollars from the state
next year. The two department school
at Atlanta receives two hundred dol
lars state aid. Under the law district
may draw from the state the apportion-
ment of about two dollars per capita
for each child until there are sixty
five enrolled in school, and in addition
the special state aid; but our districts
have done more than the law required
and have organized graded schools be-
fore there were sixty-five enrolled.
Such districts receive the regular state
money and two hundred dollars special
state aid. Graded schools with three
or more departments of which we have
seven receive three hundred dollars
special aid per year. This should en-
courage rural graded schools, looking
toward the building of rural high
schools. Town boards have the Gre
alton of new districts wholly in their
power and should consider the future
needs of their towns as well as the
temporary needs.
The transportation of children at
public expense has not increased dur
ing the year but the legislature has
passed some favorable laws giving
state aid for transportation, which we
believe some of our districts should
take advantage of. transportation of
pupils where the plan is practicable,
should be looked upon with favor with
a view to securing better schools rather
than to cheaper them.
The health and education of our chill
dren is the most important matter for
our consideration.
There We're forty-one graduates from
country schools thisy year and forty-four
from the graded schools, much larger
number than ever before. Besides
these there were nine high school grad
yates from the Ladysmith schools,
which at the time of graduation, were
said to be under my superintendency
The county training school had nine
teen graduates this year and sixteen
last year. There are thirty-three
County Training School graduates
teaching in the county, four of whom
are from other counties. There are
twenty-one other teachers with normal
training. This means that at present
more than fifty per cent of our teachers
have had definite professional training
while last year only one-fourth had at
tended training school.
The County Training School or Nor
NAL is having a very beneficial effect
upon education in the county. The
members of the faculty have aided in
teachers meetings and have given lee
lures in various parts of the county,
and the graduates have greatly i'm
proved the quality of instruction in
the rural schools.
To show one reason why such course
as is given in the county normals is
necessary today, | quote from the
Whitewater Normal bulletin of last
month: Formerly, the country dis
trict schools were crowded with pupils
and were taught, in great part, by
teachers of maturity and character. -
CHOW the schools are mostly small
and they are no longer taught by
teachers of much maturity or exper-
fence. Under the present condition of
American life, country schools can no
longer hope to secure teachers of the
age and experience formerly common.
They must be taught, at present sal
aries, by teachers of youth and compar-
ative inexperience. But this fact de-
mands that these youthful teachers
shall have received some measure of
suitable special training for the work.
The Normal school courses are so long
that the people who have spent time
and money to complete them can not
afford to go back into the country
schools and they don't have to-" 'To
obviate this tendency, resort has been
had to the county training schools for
the training of teachers for the rural
schools"
The above was signed by Pres. AL
bert Salisbury, one of the best known
educators in the state.
The training school in Rusk county
has been crowded to it's full capacity
from the first 1t is located i'll some
what small basement rooms but it is
turning out a valuable product. The
efficiency of the pupils who go out from
the schools of the county, has been
greatly increased by the county train
ing school. The school districts of the
county, during the past year, paid out
seventy-five thousand dollars for all
school purposes. That amount would
be paid without the training school as
its product is not more highly paid than
other teachers. The estimated value
of school property is $3.50, 900. This
may be considered your investment and
SIS, 900 your running expenses. Your
training school costs your county 81, 800
which is two-thirds of one per cent of
the amount of your investment and
running expenses. / am sure that it