Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-31
WILL OPEN AUG. "a
ABOVE DATE SELECTED FOR
THE RE-OPENING OF THE
RUSk COUNTY
TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL
A New Assistant Principal Must Be
Chosen

The eighth annual session of the
Rusk County Training School for
Teachers will open on Monday, Aug
ust "a, 1914, and continue for a per-
iod of forty weeks, as provided by
law.
At a recent meeting of the County
Board of Education, all necessary re-
pairs to the building, all cleaning
for the pest sanitation, and all sup
plies for use during the early part
of the year were authorized.
Miss Nellie Wightman, who has
been assistant since the beginning of
the school seven year ago, declined
to return for next year. An effort
is being made to secure a strong,
capable and well qualified person to
take up the work which she SO eff
ficiently carried on.
The Model School will be in ses-
sion for a period of nine months,
beginning Sept. 8, 1914. Children to
the number of thirty-six may be ad-
mitted to this school. The school is
free to any child who resides in Rusk
county, but when the enrolment is
filled. later applicants cannot be ac-
cepted. This school is organized as
a country school. 1t does the work of
the common schools of Wisconsin,
as set forth by the State Superln-
tendent in the Common School Man
ual 1t has been found impracticable
to maintain all of the eight grades
each year, owing to the duties which
the teacher of this school performs
in connection with the practice teach
ers from the Senior class of the
Training School. Last year the fifth
and eighth grades were omitted, and
no children were admitted for those
grades. The grades omitted last year
will be offered this year.
According to a law enacted by the
Legislature of 1918, no person may
begin teaching after July /, 1915, who
shall not have had at least one year
of professional training. This mini
mum year is found in our one year
course. Admission to the one-year
course may be obtained in one of
the two ways; either by taking the
Junior work in the Training School,
or by having completed two or more
years of high school work in high
school or state graded school
Persons who desire to take the
one-year course should make the
very best preparation they can. Those
who have completed all of high
school course find the work siren
uous and exacting. Those who enter
with less preparation must rely on
thoroughness of former study, and
unusual care and personal applica-
ton, to enable them to carry the
regular work and complete the course
of study in one year.
Persons who are tickle, or who de-
sire social dissipation, are advised
not to come. New applicants for ad-
mittance to the school should send
the names and addresses of two re
sponsible persons who are willing tC
vouch for their character, and per
sonal fitness to begin the work of
preparing to become teachers.
That every young person who de
sires the advantages of this schoo
may find the financial part of his
problem easy, the school is free tt
any young man or woman, who i:
sixteen years of age, and a residen
of Rusk county. 1t is also free tt
the same classes of young people
who live in counties which do no
maintain training schools of thei
own. The only expense to the indi
vidual, is a rental of four dollars pc
year for books and materials uset
by the students. This is payable on
dollar each quarter year, in advance.
All communications concerning eli
trance, rooms, board, work by stu
dents, ETC. may be addressed to Prir
cipal r. H. Burns, Ladysmith, Wis.