The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-29
County sehooi Letter

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i A peep into Dunwoodie school
will give one n view OF a very we'll
kept lastly decorated school room
and a busy earnest lot of pupils.
The County Superintendent has
visited thirty.seven schools during
January and February. Autoing
On the true %sense) has not been so
bad. At least, it creates an EN-
viable appetite.
The Cheney Silk Manufacturing
Co. of South Manchester, Conn.
will forward prepaid to any teach
er upon request charts illustrating
the production of silk. These
charts are very attractive and IN,
structive, They make a pleasing
and valuable addition to a school
rooms equipment,
Reports from several school
entertainments are to the effect
that there were such crowds that
many had to stay out of doors or
go back home. How much better
it would be if there were one large
school house instead of several
small ones. With this building so
CONSTRUCTED that severa! rooms
could be thrown into one large as
sembly room when occasion de-
manded the people could meet fire.
quently aud with comfort and sat
'Sfaosion have exercises that would
he of great benefit to all and re-
lieve country life of very much of
its so called dullness.
Among the schools in which we
have lately observed particularly
'omEIendable work are Andrus il
charge of Miss Helen Kelley, Ban
qert-Miss Margaret Clifford, Rub
Miss Grace Wakes, Plattner-Miss
Francis Minnich, Jones-Miss Ella
freiek, Steckley-Miss Marie
|Gilliotte, Dunwoodie-Miss Selma
Rongstad, and Voigt-Miss Blanche
Thomas.
On the evening of February 23rd
a very fine patriotic program was
rendered by the grades of the Tyn-
dali schools. Every number was
very creditably rendered and much
appreciated by the large audience.
As a considerable number of peo-
pie we're unable to find even stand.
ing room in High School assembly
people must admit that the board
of Tyndall did a very wise thing
when it caused the erection of so
a building.
Patrons and school officers
should object strenuously when the
teacher arrives at the school fire..
quently at 900 to $50. The
teacher has contracted to give five
and one-half hours ecah day (be-
thinning promptly at 9:o0) of we'll
directed skillful work. The teach
er who comes tardy is most gener,
ally unprepared, also.
1t is a real pleasure to enter a
school room that ia warm and
clean and we'll aired in which the
blackboards and other indications
point out that the teacher has re
NAMED late after school and ar.
rived early in the morning and has
given much we'll directed time to
the preparation of advance work.
The pupils really enjoy this sort of
Thing and the teachers (who do it)
enjoy it, too. ''Bless ed are the
teachers who not only ring the bell
and hear Rotations, but who also
teach"
The other day we visited a school
IN which there have been but seven
pupils enrolled during the year.
The average daily attendance for
the year will not exceed five. Each
pupil happens to be in a class by
himself. Here is a teacher with
but five or six pupils daily con
Quoting 2oto Is rotations with
but . pupil in a class. Can YOU
imagine the results Consider
the fact that this is costing the
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