The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-04-21
The New Rock County Training School
for Teachers.

i mere 10 SuCIl SSuSI al ioCh VI liz
formation among the people as to the
purpose and the character of the new
training sbhool that it seems necessary
to take some space in presenting few
facts.
There were no county training schools
in Wisconsin prior to 1899. The legis-
lature that winter authorized the es-
tablishment of two such schools, and
these soon proved to be the means of
supplying a long felt want, viz, fur
nishing trained teachers for rural
schools. Before the advent of the
county training school the country
teachers had been largely recruited
from the ranks of the common or the
high school graduates. These people
were and are today almost wholly I'M
prepared to discharfe successfully the
functions of good teacher.
The eight normal schools of the state
do not usually send teachers to the ru-
raj communities. The product of these
schools goes to the cities and the towns.
Thus the training school is needed.
1t has special mission: to prepare
rural school teachers. There are now
twenty-six such schools in Wisconsin,
and this legislature will undoubtedly
provide for four more.
This new school is to provide trained
teachers for our own county-Rock.
The state superintendent passed upon
the qualifications of the instructors in
the school, the course of study, the
work done, and has general oversight
of some other details Our county gets
the benefit and the state is back of us.
The state pays two-thirds of the cost
of maintenance, providing this share
does not exceed $500 per year The
county pays one third of the running
expenses.
There are two courses of study, one
and two years in length, respectfully.
The two-year course is for those who
have the minimum of preparation, the
one-year course for those who can
do the work in one year, because of
maturity and previous training.
The training school is here to stay.
The people soon see the real value of
such a school. 1t is not an experiment.
1t is an established fact in the excel
lent influence which it is exerting.
The school year is of ten months dur
alton and is divided into four quarters
of ten weeks EACH The Rock county
school will open for work on Monday,
Aug. %, 1911. 1t is not expected that
any of these schools will be large. An
attendance of forty students would be
about all we could accommodate, with
teaching force consisting of the prin-
cipal and one assistant the first year.
We are hoping for not less than thirty
nor more than forty. We aim at quail
ity of work accomplished.
No student under sixteen years of
age will be admitted and the following
are eligible to admission without exam
nation:
/. Those holding teachers certifi-
cate.
2. High school graduates.
5. Students who have had two years
of high school work.
Common and graded school graduates
will be given an entrance examination.
If these people are sufficiently mature
and have been we'll trained they will
have little difficulty in passing this ex-
animation.
Tuition is free to residents of Rock
county. All necessary text and refer
ence books are to be furnished by the
school at rental of seventy-five cents
per quarter, or three dollars per year.
The Rock County Training School
board consists of C. E. Moore, presi-
dent, Evansville, R. F. D.; Supt. 0. d.
Antisdel, GAINESVILLE, secretary; Earle
A. Cleveland, Beloit, treasurer.
For information concerning this train
ing school, write to either Supt. o. d.
Antisdel, GAINESVILLE, or to the under
signed, FRANK j. LoWTH,
Principal OF the Rock County Train
ing School, Evansville, Wis.