The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-03-16
TWO Big MEETINGS
Annual School Officers Meeting
School Day at Ortley.

portance have been held iu Rob-
erts County since March L. ON
the 9TH the annual meeting of the
school officers of the county was
held i'm Sissetom. There were
about four hundred Officers,
teachers and visitors i'm attendance.
Road conditions prevented na,.v
school officers from attending the
meeting but those who did attend
pronounce it one of the best meet
lngs held in many wears. I'm the
morning the time was spent i'm
discussing some of the problems
of the rur, school Officers. The
matter of the annual report was
mp for consideration for about am
hour. After .lisposing of this there
was brisk discussions ON the SUBJ
lect of the teacher. the most inn
portant factor i'm the school. The
county superintendent urged the
officers to act early i'm selecting
the teacher, for we depend largely
upon applicants from outside The
state to fill our SCHOOLS and they
are always anxious to get located
early in the summer. He also
asked the officers to investigate
more thoroughly the record of
those applying for places in our
schools. Many times in acting
hastily school boards hire teachers
who are not really qualified and
had the record of these people been
investigated. they would not have
been hired. There was consider
able interest manifested i'm regard
to teachers being not only legal
ly qualified, but morally qualifit d
as We'll. and the impression seen.-
ed to prevail that more care and
judgement would he manifested
the coming year i'm selecting the
teachers than has heretofore been
the case.
In the afternoon the county SUI
perlntendent took up some of the
;lctllal present needs of the schools.
Chief amcng these needs was mem
toned better toilets on the school
premises, some care in the matter
of putting the school house and
grounds i'm better condition before
the opening of school i'm the fall.
and better heating and ventilating
IN many of the schools. He also
read some interesting facts in re-
gard to health conditions as they
were reported by the teachers in a
brief questionable sent out from
the superintendent office. There
are many eases of eye defects.
many eases of adenoids and en-
larged tonsils and other physical
defects that should be attended to
it not by the parents then we
should provide county health
officer for at least a portion of
the school year.
DIR. Jones OF the State Univers-
: ity at Vermillion was present and
gave very interesting lecture or
or address upon the subject Left
handedness and Suffering DIR.
Jones has made IL long study of
,:efthanded children and has exam
mined about twenty thousand boys
and girls in the last ten years to
discover whether they were right
handed or lefthanded. He main
tains after his ten wears OF expert
mentlng that one can determine
'haudedness" OF any child by
system of measurements of the
bones and muscles of the arm.
He has invented an instrument
called brachiometer" with which
these arm measurements are talk
en-. The address was very instruct
i've and interesting from beginning
to end and in closing DIR. Jones
plead with parents to leave the
eftlanded child alone without any
attempt to shift him to using the
right hand. foE in this shift lies
the danger of shifting some Of ire
motion centers in the brain thus