Western Kansas world., 1915-10-09
Teachers Column


"A Standard School in Every Dis
IricI" is the war cry of the rural
teachers of Trego county.
. The speaker, Miss Stone, one of the
state rural school inspectors. and the
beautiful weather Saturday, brought
out larger attendance to the Teach
ers' Meeting than the officers looked
for Help is difficult TO get this sea-
son and many of the teachers are do
ing farm work on Saturdays. This
has its advantages get in SYM
pathy more readily with the people in
their districts and get in a position
where all schools needs are cheerfully
and promptly granted.
Call on your patrons. Become &C
quainted. "tamiiiarity breeds con-
tempt, as DIR. Curtis said, only
where those concerned are content
able. The people want you. your
learning and accomplishments and
ability 10 care for the school are Ia
ken for granted. This is world of
hungry hearts The gift without
the giyer is bare" Give yourself.
Lavish kindness, sympathy, interest
asking nothing in return and the
stamp of your personality will long
remain after all your school lessons
shall have been forgotten
A Herculean task you say? Most
assuredly The task of the teacher
has long been conceded the most diff
cult, the least renumerative the most
significant to the worlds progress.
Only the big hearted, generous, noble
souIed man or woman who is willing
requirements.
IF there isn't any sunshine in your
day,
Why, put some in
If you've never tried to make your
sun that way,
Oh, do begin.
This sunshine making's hard, but
you won't mind,
Keep on; and wien it's done you're
apt to find
The homemade brands the very
incest kind
AS many of our readers know the
last legislature, on the recommends
1ion of State Superintendent Ross,
provided for a complete overhaul
ing and reorganizing OF the State
Department OF Public Instruction.
Now the state superintendent has
even power and means TO help the
much neglected country schools. Mr..
Ross will always be held in grateful
remembrance by all rural school
workers. In one of his pleas for our
country schools said: The state is
spending wisely large sums of money
each year on its higher institutions
of learning and on its High Schools.
Why not spend at least a small frac-
Jion of the same amount in encour-
agement and aid for those schools in
which large percent of our boys and
girls get the only educational train
ing which they receive?
There are schools in Kansas-all too
many of them - that do not have
even dictionary or a globe, to say
nothing of maps, library or other
equipment. a teacher cannot work
without tools any more than can a
carpenter or a black smith. The very
least that great wealthy state like
Kansas, with twice as much invested
in automobiles as she has in schools
can do is to see that eventually al
her schools are standard schools
And as a result of these worthy ef
forts the State board of education
worked out the following require
ments for rural schools. Any district
meeting them will be honored by
= visit from the state inspector whC
will place above the school house doc
a metal nameplate bearing in larg,
conspicuous letters the inscription
"A Standard School,
REQUIREMENTS FOR sTANAARD
RURAL SCHOOL
Yard and ouubuildings:
1. School grounds at least one acr
and kept in good condition.
,. Good approaches TO the house
either cement sand or cinder walks.
8. Threes and shrubs where condi
1ions will permit.
4 Two we'll kept. widely separate,
onthouses with screened entrances
). Convenient fuel house properl