Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Splendid Joint Meeting of Members Of Boards Of Ed
ucatiOn and Teachers-Items of Interest From
Various SchOOls-Teachers' Examination
at Wauseon March Third

The Joint Session of the Boards
of Education and Teachers of Fulton
County held at Wauseon last Satur-
day was well attended by both the
Board Members and Teachers. DR..
Williams gave two helpful and in
spring addresses, and Miss Viola
Grlme Of German Township and Sup
erlntendent W. j. Clark of Fayette
gave snort addresses that were hlgn-
~ appreciated by all. The general DIS
cuss4ons were nveiy and to the point
on subjects Of much interest to our
schools.
There were from fifty to sixty
members of the boards OF education
OF the county prese'S' md one hundred
and twenty-five tel~-:lers representing
practically every township in the
county.
At the morning session DR.. H. G.
Williams address on "The Teacher
and the Community" was most ap-
proprlately introduced by a descrip-
ton of how the hot lunch system was
started and Is progressing IN Ger
man township school, gwen by. the
teacher, Miss Viola Crime. Miss
Crime told how she interested the pa
irons of the school in the project and
now readily they co-operated with
the school in this matter, how the
girls of the school were getting prac-
tIcal knowledge in domestics and food
hygiene and the boys experience In
the fundamentals of manual training
through the building of cup boards,
shelves and tables for use in the
school room in this connection and the
lively interest shown by the people of
the community in this movement
which results in keeping the children
in better health and so better prepar-
ed for the work of the school room.
DR.. Williams spoke Of the gathering
as a meeting well worth while be-
cause of the fact that the teachers and
members of the boards of education
were together for the discussion of
those matters in which it is essential
that they should be in harmony and in
which they should cooperate with
each other. DR.. Williams referred to
the beginning of the Public Schools of
the United States being at a time
when so much was done in the homes
in which the children helped and so
learned to use their hands and eyes
while the schools needed only to pro-
vide the intellectual training;
he then called attention to the change
that has taken place in that so little of
the workof supplying the family needs
| is done in the home and children have
little or no opportunity to learn to
do the practical work of life in the
homes. He pointed out that schools
have not changed to meet these chang
ed conditions and that in consequence
they have not been meeting the real
needs of the pupils and that older pu-
pills drop out of school on this account
to enter upon the work which they
have chosen to do before they have
had sufficient educational training,
The whole community helps in the
education of the child said DR.. Viii
liams and it follows that the schools
should co-oeprate with the community
IN this work of education. Such CO,
operation must necessarily be brought
about through the agency of the
teacher.
In the afternoon DR.. Williams
spoke on the Rural School problem
and advocated the consolidated schoo
as the best solution of this problem
where it exists
Superintendent Clark of Fayett,
gave a very interesting talk on thu
"Rural Pupils in the Village Schools
pleading for an adaptation of the curl
culum of the schools to meet the rea
needs of such pupils.
The questions of Medical Inspec
tom, "Time of Holding Teachers In
stitutes" and How Much Should b
, Spent Upon a First Class Rura
School, were discussed by Boar
Members and teachers. The Girls Gle
Club of the Wauseon High Schoc
: sang several selections which added
, the enjoyment of those present.
Supt. Mattern of Archbold ha
worked out a splendid plan whereof
. the Grammar grade has really becom
a part of the High School, It Nigh
be called semi-junior High Schoo
The plan is proving most successful.
The Boys and Girls Clubs are be
coming a subject of much interest
our county. Their organizations wi
take place the early part of ne1
month.
In stepping in the halls of the Igor
4 SSAIOOA O11C INV SCCS q III
new program clock that rings tt
gong in all rooms for opening ar
closing class periods and recess ar
4 noon intermissions. The clock is tt
j gift of the Class of IT. Not to be ou
i done, the Class of '19 has presente
the school with a piano. These gif
4 add greatly to the efficiency of Il
4 school plant and indicate fine scho
8 spirit.
The Fulton Centralized High Scho
q has been raised to the First Grad
q This reflects much credit upon Il
8 school, the School Board and the con
i munity, which have made possible tn
i advanced step. The new teacher in Il
j High School is C. K. Chase, a grad
i ate of Heidelberg.
4 supt. C. C. Smith of Delta hi
q installed splendid system of recor'
throughout his whole school. The
8 will show at glance the efficiency
q pupil both mentally and physical
3 from the time he enters school to tt