The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-10-12
School News.
By E. f. Coad.


By f.. E. Coad.
High School enrolment 1877. Total
enrollmeont is now over 600.
Philip Ingraham, from Miss How
ards room Sixth grade-,is at the
Cottage Hospital suffering from an
attack of Typhoid Fever. He is i'm
proving and hopes to be back in school
soon.
Miss Nellie Crocker. the new Sixth
Grade teacher, commenced her work
Monday. All the rooms are now used.
The eighth grade boys were trans
ferred TO the high school building to
the room that was used last year for a
library. Folding doors have been
placed across the two wings of the
High School assembly room so that one
of the wings could be used as library
and the other as a class room.
Thursday is a holiday - Columbus
Day. suppose a good many people
will wonder why the schools are closed
on that day. But the law commands
us to close. There were numerous
complaints because we organized our
school work this year on holiday,
and from strictly legal standpoint
the complaints were justified. The
teachers cannot be blamed for the new
holiday any more than they are blamed
for a good many things that happen.
Last year at the State Teachers Asso-
citation resolutions were passed asking
the state Legislature to change the
law so that it would not be necessary
to close school on primary and general
election days. But the Legislaturesdi die
nothing of the sort. 1t gave us
another holiday instead. Soft that is
the way the people feel about it We
will have to obey the law whether W,
want to do so or not. But | am sur,
that it is the belief of practically al
the teachers that this new holiday i
not reeded.
The teachers of Hood River COUNT
were practically unanimous in thei
request that we have teachers lnsti
tute at Hood River instead Of going t.
The Dalles next year. Ii is the intell
tion of County School Superintendent
Thompson to arrange for the Institute
aserequested. Much Of the work at tn,
average Institute is arranged for Eth'
teachers who have had little or M
training. The teachers of Hood Rive
county are trained teachers with bu
/, few exceptions, and thus are not bene
Z fitted very much by the institute
, They feel that instructors can be Sc
, cured who will help them on the point
where they need help.
There are too many students who d
| af "a ba
possess. Some are posted nearly ever
] week. wonder if the parents knoN
about it. The students are told t
report to their parents, and report
are sent home every SIX weeks. Her
are some interesting deductions draw
by the teachers recently: With fe,
exceptions who fail regularly are thos
: |. who fail to meet any sort of respon
siblity; 2. who continually find eS
cuses for absentng themselves fror
: the room; 3. who never take advan
tage of, the opportunity of gettin
special help from the teacher 1T
always the best students who do thi
voluntarily; a. who resent it if the
are asked to remain after the mai
! classes are dismissed; 5. who are dis
orderly: 6. who do not have regula
. hours for home study, and for rest
! And the list might be extended.
! 1t is true that the school does nc
, appeal directly to the interests G
, many of these students. Practice
! Manual Training would help many c
them. Breaking up wrong habit
, would help others. Parental interes
: and cooperation with all the educativ
influences would help others. W
> teachers are no doubt to blame in som
! cases in misiudging the student or i
failing to reach his interest BIT
, there is surely something in the dedut
. tions above to interest the parents {
a the students concerned.