The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-02
Great Preparations Made for
Meeting of State Teachers
Assn. in Milwaukee
KEN0sHA TEACHERS TO ATTEND


annual meeting of the Wisconsin State
Teachers Association has been sent TO
teachers throughout the state. This
program should attract a large number
of school boards and country school
teachers to the meeting. City and high
school teachers have never needed
much urging to attend, while school
boards and country school teachers
have never attended the meetings in
large numbers.
There are topics to be presented in
the school board section this year
which cannot fail to interest school
officers. Among these are "School Ac-
counting in Wisconsin," "The High
School in Relation to the Community,
the Graded School and Colleges, +"
s'Waste in School Administration, y
and Broader Use of School Build
ings.' These topics will be presented
and discussed by such men as Hon. G..
D. Jones of Wausau, Professors j. B.
Borden and E. c. Elliott Of Madison,
and others of the ablest and most ex-
perienced men to be found anywhere.
If the country school teacher hest
tates to attend, let him read the pro-
grams to be presented in the rural
school conference, the state graded
school conference, and the conference
of the kindergarten, primary, interme-
date and grammar school subsections.
He ought to ask his school board then
for permission to 60 to the meeting.
1t, however, the aspiring teacher still
hesitates after reading these programs,
let him read through the whole pro-
gram of the association and note the
splendid array Of men and women who
will be at the meeting, gathered from
various parts of the United States;
and that this talent with the best that
we have in Wisconsin, enriches all
parts Of the program. Now, when we
consider that the price of admission
to all CT those sessions where we can
see, and hear, and be benefited by
those notable men and women, is mere.
ly the cost Of a membership ticket, it
does seem as though no true Wisconsin
teacher can afford to be absent.
Members of school boards are not
to consider the three days during which
the association will be in session as
holidays to be spent in Milwaukee by
their teacher, or teachers, in idle recre.
alton. They should know that il is in
accordance with the educational policy
of the state to send them, and that
they dre authorized by law to do SO
without loss of pay to the teacher.
Let them also consider that the asso-
citation has spent nearly two thousand
dollars, taken directly from the earn.
ings of the teachers of this state, to
secure the services of men and women
of exceptional ability to make this the
most instructive, inspiring and valu.
able meeting ever held in the United
States by any state teachers associa.
ton.
An examination of the program
should be all that is needed to convince
any school board that the district can.
not afford to permit the teacher to alb.
sent herself from this session Of the
association.
An appeal for the betterment Of our
rural schools has gone out, and it is
resounding everywhere throughout the
state. The state superintendent has
appointed committee of fifteen to
study the education conditions of the
state with special reference to these
schools. Let the first response to this
appeal, and the first hopeful sign of a
betterment of these schools be a large
attendance of school boards and of the
teachers of these schools at thu meet
ing in Milwaukee, Wis.,, on No ,smber
9th, 10th and 18th.