Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-02

seems TO be- s'thoroly business like.
Everyone seems to be working ear
neStly and effectively.
| OF course you have an exceptiona
equipment, but it is being used ad
vantageously and 1 hope the schoo
viii gain an increasingly heart,
support from the entire community
I am glad to have met so many
members of the board and others O
your city. Their interest and theil
| appreciation of the school only
confirmed me in my very favorable
| impression of the institution.
If We can be OF amy further service
please call upon US.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) H. K Bassett.
In our anxiety to provide the night
kind of work for our boys and girls,
We have forgotten the very boys a-d
girls themselves. A look into any
school room will convince the obser-
want that the stopped shoulders and
sIouchy gait need the a,tent- on OF a
competent ply cal dir ector. Our high
school is no exception. One PHI S ca
director should be provided for the
boys and one for the g rls. They ma.
teach some academic subject or ha.
OF the tune ano lock a1ter the PHI
sicaI neeas OF the boys and girls the
other half OF the time. This should
be done next year.
The problem of providing adequate
athletic grounds for the pupils in the
High Schoo and Eighth Craze sho4lI
also receive oonsid Grafton at once.
The City has kindly given us the use
of the "'Old Fair Grounds" for foot
ball and baseball activities for many
years, but there is no proper trauk
manent track be built and properly
kept in repair as conditions now are.
The boys in Mechanical Drawing a.
tempted to lay out a quarter mile
track on the school grounus between
the Lincoln School and Sixth Street,
but they found that the grounds Lack
about 100 fit. in length and are too
marrow to include a football field
within the track and leave reasonable
margin. Track and field athletes
should receive more encouragement
than it is possible to give them
now, because these forms of athlec-
tics are adaptable to a larG er II,m-
Der of boys than etther baseball n
football
Much attention has been given the
past year by the Board of Educa-
tion to the sanitary conditions of
the school buildings and the safety
of the children in the schools. Fire
escapes have been provided for the
Lowell and Emerson schools, ventila-
ting systems for the Lowell and EN-
erson Easements and kindergarten
rooms. The drinking fountains in
the Lincoln High School Build
ing We're removed from the to let
rooms into the halls and the danger
GUS condition of the truss work I'M
der the roof of the Lincoln School
was remedied by the addition of new
steel trusses. This has been quite
an expense, but was necessary to
provide for the maximum safety to
all concerned The Board of Educa-
ton has at adj times expended its
funds economically cons stent with
the best possible services to the com
munity.
The Board of Education has now IN
der consideration the building of
school house on the Corner of 18th
and Grand Avenues to accommodate
the children in the Kindergarten,
First and Second grades west of the
St. Paul tracks The recent de- DO
rable accident shows the immediate
necessity for building the school.
Eighteen teachers out of forty7sev-
en- are new to the schools of this c ty
Eight or one half the teachers in
the high school are with us for the
first year. Frequent changes OF tea
cheers may be a novelty to the pu-
pills, but such changes do not make
for consistent progress. 1t IS our pc
Icy to make as few changes as pos
sible except where Necessary.
The attendance in the publ C
schools as snown by TIE re-or 8 Las
BEEN better than at any time hereto
fore. Patrons Of the schools a. pr
ciate the work done by the Medical
Inspector in protecting the chIldr- n
against contagious disease, and by
the Board Of Educat- on In providing
more sanitary rooms. Some OF the
gain in attendance must be accre-
dited to the efforts of the suhool
Committee of the Womans FEEDER
alton and the Parental Associat- on.
The School Committee OF the FEEDER
alton held one Mothers Meeting in
each of the grade school build
inss and will hold another in the Lin
coin School Building at which ME-
Warren E. Hicks, State ASS s.
tant for Industrial Education, VIII
sneak on Continuation schools, FIJI
day evening, March 20, 1914. These
meetings grow each year to larger
proportions. More interest Is mani
tested by the parents in the welfare
of their children in school now than
at any previous time.
The Parental Association held seVe