The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-08-31
THE TRAINING SCHOOL.

The Manitowoc County Teachers
Training school opened last Monday
with an enrolment of 50. The follow
ing is list of the students enrolled:
Joe Boackhaus, Ella Basken, Archie
Baugniet, Edward Benishek, Frank
Benishek, Walter Braun, Lola Bren-
nan, Mamie Cavanaugh, Charles Click,
Lille Click, Mary Cohen, Mildred De-
bricks, Eleanora Dunbar, Milly Engel-
brecht, Marie Felber, Elsie Faulkes,
Wayne Fisher, Mary Grady, Luella
Geimer. Luella Hake, Bertha Hecker,
Amanda Heyroth, Frieda Helm, Frank
Hlinak, Ladimir Hrudka, Clara Jonas,
Alvina Kamman, Isabelle Kennedy,
Kathryn Knox, Walter Koehler, Julia
Kranik, Lillian Kvitek, Florence
Logan, Lilly Marquardt, Blanche Nc
Gully, Ray Mccarthy, Alphonsus Nc
Nulty, Edna Mittnacht, James Murphy,
Esther Naser, Ida Nelson, Mabel Pei
tier. William Rauch, Helen Reedy,
Anna Reinertson, Nita Sampe, Clara
Shebesta, Leo Shimek, Roy Sievert,
Walter Strohfeldt, Mary Sullivan, John
Tepoorten, Mabel Walterbach, William
Wilde, Gladys Willinger. This is more
than can comfortably be accommodated,
and more than two teachers ought be
asked to handle. 1t is true that every
year a certain number get into our
training school that would be better
off at some other school. They have
the entrance qualifications as far as
scholarship is concerned, but there are
certainly many other things that ought
to be taken into consideration. The
teachers and training school board in
large measure keep in mind some of
these other qualifications in determin-
ing who shall enter. 1t can readily be
seen that people who are inclined to,
can heap one criticism upon another
upon such selection. Nine times out
Of ten these people know nothing about
the school nor the nature of the work.
The board and the teachers are con-
fronted on the one side with class of
people who would rather have their
boy or girl enter at the age of fifteen
instead of sixteen; they would rather
have them graduate in one year than
in two; they think that to become a
teacher is simply matter of being at
the training school year or two.
| Then on the other hand they are con-
fronted with class of people the
great mass of people,, who say that we
graduate people too young to go out to
teach, that they are immature and not
prepared. They say that some certain
ones ought never have become teach
ers. Now this is true but hard to de-
termine at the outset, although in a
few instances the teachers at the
school did everything but directly tell
the student that he or she never would
make teacher. 1t is pretty hard to
convince some. The board and the
teachers are in way trying to make
proper selection for the benefit OF the
mass of people who have children that
will be taught by the graduates. In
50 doing they have antagonized few
parents who sent a boy or girl to our
school. Such students were told at the
outset what their weaknesses were,
and if given chance for few months
to do the work were given to under
stand that they were there on their
own risk. 1t would be weak Normal
School or Training School, or High
School, that would often listen to the
dictates Of others in determining who
shall graduate. Surely no Training
school faculty will refuse to graduate
as teachers those that are strong and
will in their judgment make good
teachers. The weak, and the doubt
full, and the lazy, and the indifferent,
and the dull and the careless, and the
negligent, and the imnature; all OF
these are traits which make poor ma
terial for teacher, and should be con-
sidered.
Students possessing these qualities
are certainly the ones who fail.
| What is needed is the right kind Of
cooperation by those who are in favor
of good schools and good teaching.
But on the contrary we find some
people who are only too willing to
listen to story Of boy or girl who
has been sent home from the training
school land it is easy to guess what
their story will bel. Such people dc
not know, nor oft do they care to know
the reasons. They do not come to the
proper place to find out. Every person
who takes such stand is harming the
school, the nature of the material that
will graduate, the children of our pub
/ lie schools the people In general, the