Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-01-31
Teachers Column

SdCQCIS SO1uI1lA
"Kansas can rightly be thankful
that their lot is cast in common
wealth so enviable, and where nature
is so prodigal with all that tend to
the prosperity and well-being of a
laws prevail, alike for women and
men, and have impartial enforce
ment, regardless of nationality, color,
creed, sex, or situation. Where the
individual finds his true measure and
is rated by his worth rather than by
pretensions or ancestry; and where
every avenue to advancement is open
even to the humblest, through which
rank and fortune are attainable to
each according to his deserts. .''-F.
d. Coburn. n
Many of the country schd3 3ls are
making special effort to ce<ebrate
Kansas Day by a good Kans8 pro-
gram, big dinner and games. There
is no better way to teach patriotism
effectively in our schools.
Franklin township has several of
the most progressive school boards
found in our county. On the visitors S
list in the teachers registers the
name of each member of. the board
appears not only once but a number
of times each term of school and the
Franklin people, on an average, have
y 81, Il
those of any other community in the
county.
Children from three districts at
tend school at Gibson school, Dist. 35
Franklin. That is almost consolida-
ton, is it not? The school house is
small and the teacher literally has no
spot there to call her own even her
desk being utilized for the pupils use.
She works from daylight until dark
hearing recitations and at recess,
noon hour and after school hours
while many other districts in the
county have large comfortable build
ings, we'll paid teachers, and four or
six pupils in each districts. Is there
any common sense or justice in our
present school system of taxation?
Why should children in one district
have better educational advantages
than the children of another district,
and then we marvel that Kansas is
ranked twenty-fourth in schooisl
Mrs. Conley has little family of
four pupils in Dist. 30. This district
at present has two nice buildings for
school purposes and their only trouble
now is to get the pupils to fill them.
The school board there has difficult
problem to solve for some of the pa
irons are so located that school should
be taught in both places.
Dist. so, the Atha school, has one
of the best up-to-date schools in the
county. Though but ten pupils are
enrolled the teacher, Miss Bowen,
finds no idle time on her hands
Supplementary texts are used in all
the classes and more interesting reci
tations would be hard to imagine.
The pupils are full of the subject
assigned and anxious to tell of the
discoveries each has made. Every
Friday afternoon is devoted to sew
ing. At present the pupils are max
ing school aprons and other useful
articles. Miss Bowen has had several
terms of training in the Agricultural
College of Manhattan and as soon as
her school closes she will attend the
Spring and the Summer term of the
State Normal at Hays This is her
second year at Atfia-
Miss Bessie Rogers, Dist 43, has
the third largest school in the county
i'm attendance and size of pupils-in
size of school room it is one of the
smallest. In order to do justice to
her pupils she finds it necessary to
teach several hours overtime The
fact that she found the school poorly
graded adds TO the difficulty. When
will some of the parents and some of