Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1913-01-23
TWO EXCELLENT MEETINGS
State Superintendent il Principal
Speaker at Gathering Of
Officers and Teachers

place in this city and Beresford OF
Friday and Saturday of last week
The meeting Of school officers in this
city was attended by eighty Of the
various school district officers Of the
city and The townships Of the south
half of the whole county Interest was
at high pitch during the whole meet,
ing and the officers learned many things
new and helpful to them in their labors
for the county's greatest institutions.
The meeting In the morning was de-
voted merely to an informal discussion
of the business that falls to the lot Of
the school officer in performing his
duties and many useful thoughts and
suggestions were exchanged and no
endof good was accomplished
Never before has the interest been
shown in a school meeting as that
which was evident ait the afternoon
session. The officers had come with
the intention of getting all to be had
from the meeting and the speakers
were given the closest attention. Miss
Irene Ehresman was the first speaker
and her subject, What the Teacher
Has Right to Expect Of Parents, =
was handled in a manner that was
pleasing and at the same time forcible
and 10 the point. She reviewed the
subject well and told of many ways in
which the parents could aid the teach
er in properly performing her duties.
She deplored the fact that parents do
not visit the schools and gave as an
Illustration the fact that in her years
as high school teacher only one par
ent had been tovisit the classes during
recitation and that only three had ever
visited the school voluntarily. Another
important point in her talk dealt with
the night study problem. She did not
think that q reasonable amount OF
evening study would injure the pupil
as much as dances, shows, entertain
nents and parties and she brought cut
the fact that tine child who was at
home studying was not apt t0 keep
late hours but would be 1T rest early,
thereby the better fitting them both
physically, intellectually and morally
for the battles of life. She pied with
the parents and offic II mainly for
two things sympathetic cooperation
with and understanding of the teacher.
The talk ELECTED many favorable COM
ments and State Superintendent Law
renee was enthusiastic III his praise
of her ideas.
Frank Miller gave fine talk on Boy
Interests in School. q He asked the
teachers and officers for more atten-
tion to boy and boy interests and sug-
lgested that If the school libraries had
more of the books that appeal to boys
that they would take more interest III
them. He pied for clean athletics,
higher moral tone in the schools and
better comradship among the boys.
He spoke of the favoritism consciously
Or unconsciously shown at times BY the
teacher and pointed to the fact that 1t
oftimes killed the appreciation of the
boy for the teacher. His talk was
mastery one and IL deserving Of the
greatest praise
Irregularity in School Attendance
was the subject of mighty interesting
talk by H. e French. He spoke at
length 90 hardness and how it effected
the school its effect On the school as j
whole and on the individual pupils. He
attributed many Of the failures to
tardiness and irregular attendance and
brought out the fact that IL had TEND
ency 70 bring on Encouragement Of the
pupils. He gave it as his opinion that
aehild's sole business during his school
years should be that of going to school
and that the home training should be
such as 70 make the pupil respect
fully the rules and regulations Of the
school
Mr. Lawrence was the last speaker
Of the day and his address On .Edu-
cational Needs WIS one which took
his hearers By storm and his plea for
betker schools, teachers, equipment
and better cooperation of patrons and
school boards was one which would
inspire most anyone to more strenuous
efforts toward the betkerInent Of the
schools. III Il Il most pleasing speaker