The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1912-08-22


are also falling Ia line. There ar,
many things In which the lsborins
nau can Join for the Increase 81
prosperity and community better
, meat The Bennington County ver
mont Improvement Association IN n
much oi project FOR the bettermen
of conditions as far as the laborlug
man is concerned Ls Il Is for the
business man and the farmer From
one = ctory oomee the assurance tina
- lar are coming forward to the
uumptr of 100 TO join the Associa.
ltloa
schools
One Of the most important sub
Jects that are being agitated by the
bennington County Vermont I'm
proyement Association and the
school boards and people interest
ed in the schools is supervision aud
rearrangement OF courses OF study
along practical lines, The most
gratifying feature of this agitation
| Is the deep interest in the work as
shown by the willingness OF the
school boards TO take time aud make
sacrifice for the improvement of
schools conditions and by the citizen
Ia general. AT North Bennington.
Monday night occurred meeting
that was inspiring TO any lover OF
our schools. The school board OF
that place called a meeting for the
purpose of considering supervision
With SALISBURY and Arlington. The
citizens OF North Bennington we're 10
vitality interested in this that they
jamed their hall TO the doors. The
discussions lasted for two hours.
The interest was intense and the
discussion animated. AT that meet
Ing they appointed committee to
look up some technical points In tie
law and to make such further In
vestigatlons as TO satisfy themselves
regarding some peculiar local condi-
tions that ought to be fully under
stood and adjusted before the citi-
zens feel that they ought to enter
the union. This adjustment can un
doubtedly be made.
At mass meeting Sunday night
In Manchester Center the subject OF
schools were also a prominent fea-
ture of the evenings discussions. 1t |
was there advocated that a mothers
club be formed which shall endeav-
or to get the parents to visit the
schools to study the problems of
the teachers and to give the teachers
and supervisors all the support and
backing possible.
The Bennington County Vermont
improvement Association feels that
If the voters and the fathers, as
well as the mothers, take lively In
terest in the problems OF our schools
visit them and support them as they
deserve, that bennington County
will be the banner County In the
State OF Vermont as far ~ its
schools are concerned.
In survey made In series of
counties in Illinois 1t was found that
a certain rural school of the schools
sent a larger per cent
OF its pupils to the high schools
and II was also found that these
pupils carried away the honors In ,
he high schools. Upon Investigation
t was found that this district had
4 womens sewing circle that met !,
)nce month at four o'clock In the :
school house and there the teacher !,
ind the mothers discussed the
Ichool problems and also talked
,ver the children OF these mothers.
Naturally many of the mothers came
.arly in the afternoon and thus T,
observed the school as 1t was
aught.
The individual interest and sup
'oi' OF parents and all interested 4
chools cannot be over emphasized. q
uch interest Is bound to have two 81
fleets. In the first place 1t will
etter the schools. In the second r,
lace II will be an education, sort z
I post graduate course for those N