The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-07-18
AsCENsION's SCHOOL SYSTEM.
Phenom enag Strides Made in Educa-
tionaI Progress in Past Decade
Inspiring Work by Intelligent
Citizenship.
By E. N. PUGH Member Parish School Board.

By E. N. PUGH, Member Parish School Board.
Blessed by most bountiful Prov
idence with all in the way of ma
ture's gifts that go to make peo-
pie happy and prosperous, the citi-
zens Of the parish Of Ascension
years ago realized there was yet
something lacking to enable them to
reach the acme of their ambition.
This missing quality was education,
one of the two hooks (the other was
self goVernment) upon which the
continuance of republican govern
ment was considered as absolutely
hanging. With the single aim and
object in view Of creating and build
ing up an efficient system of pub
lie education whereby every child in
the parish could become in due time
a good and useful citizen, in times
of stress and storm, in the fleeting
hour OF prosperity, the people united
to man have largely contributed in
time and money to the accomplish
ment Of this great, noble and in
spring purpose.
Their devotion to the cause Of edu-
cation has brought it's reward. In
every ward of the parish substantial
and well-equipped sehoolhouses greet
the eye, and the enthusiasm of those
attending these schools is a graceful
tribute to the taxpayers, who at much
sa crifice have created system of
public education yieing with any
throughout the land.
No boy Or girl in this parish need
go uneducated unless their parents so
will it. The feast is spread by the
state, their mother, and the children
are not only invited to attend, but
no effort is spared to have them en-
joy and take advantage of the munif-
icent gifts OF the taxpayer.
Ten years have passed, and draw
The comparison between now and
then. Assured ProVidenee has
sbean kind to Us, and the strides,
made in educational lines in this par
ish during this short period have
been phenomenal. Our motto is En-
Avant," and we recognize schools
must advance in efficiency or re-
trograde; there is no such thing as
marking time.
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our parish is a school embracing
within it's curriculum the teaching
by practice as well as by theory the
uplifting principle of making two
LWigs grow where only one is now
produced. This school, the first Of
IT'S kind in the state, shows the wis
dom of those inaugurating it. We
have within the limits of a small
parish four high schools, with capa-
BILE and intelligent teachers.
Ascension in the past has done her
full duty and her efforts on educa-
tionaF lines will never cease or grow
less, for her people recognize that
the maintenance Of schools IS abso-
Tutely essential to good government
and the happiness of mankind. The
various and complex problems ever
confronting the American people can
only be solved rightfu1ly and intelli-
gently by an educated citizenship.
To this end Ascension is resolved
that her citizens in this respect
shall be the peers of those of her
sister states, and this necessarily in
wolves public school system growing
better and better in efficiency year
by year. The good Work in this di-
1,ection shall INCREASINGLY be prose
tcuted until generations unborn shall
arise and bless those who in
and kept up this system.