The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-01-17
HOPE STEELE COUNTY, NORTH
SCHOOL NOTES

SGhuW ulE
The standing of the pupils in the
respective clesses for the third month
are: Seniors-Viola Olson, first;
Mary Helen Cassell, second; Grace
Erickson, third. In the junior class
Nellie Lunding, first; Dorothy Han
son, second; Edward Nelson and Ruth
Lathrop, third. In the sophomore
class--Hazel Deem, first: Frank Car.
penter, second; Ruth Smith. and Ora
Trusty, third. In the freshman class
donovan Kraabel, first; Ella Lock
wood, second; and Dorothy Lathrop
and Helen Turnbull, third. Nellie
Lunding and Donovan Kraabel have
the highest standing in the high school
the third MONTH
A number of pupils of the high
school are making substantial pro.
gress. This holds true especially in
the lower classes and it is recognized
that like number of parents are in
terested III the progress of their child
ren. but there are too many pupils yet
whose progress is not sufficient to in
sure passing grades at the end of the
semester and term. The parents of
these same pupils have signed their
names on the reverse side of their
children's report cards pledging to
require evening study when the grades
fall below "V. F." It seems that
the teachers are doing all they can to
accelerate effort in the children, but it
must be remembered that only the ex-
ceptional bright student is able to do
all tho work required by the state
| course of study for graduation within
the walls of the school in the legal six
hour session. Are the children who
are failing in their work beyond par
entail control or is it negligence on the
part OF parents is an alternative
worthy of due consideration on the
part of parents in strenuous times
such as we are living in now.
Parents whose pupils fail in public
schools often put their children into
boarding schools, blaming the public
schools with their teaching force for
their ineficiehcy, to find that the pu-
pills really succeed in their nav en-.
vironment. There are public schools,
1t is true, that hampered by politics or
for other reasons, do not do efficient
work. And pupils entering boarding
schools from these may do better
work in the boarding schools than in
the public school from which they en-
tered, but in most of these cases the
cause of success in the new school
must be attributed to the better results
as result of the new teacher's dis
position of the entire time of the new
teacher or school.
President Nicholas Murry Butler of
Columbia University, in an article
written for the American Journal of
Education, emphasizes the necessity
OF better educational equipment for
the rising generation in order that it
may be the better prepared to undergo
the privation this generation is la ying
on it in the form of debts requiring
many decades to pay in carrying on
this expensive war in order that it
(the rising generation) may be free.
1t is we'll for this generation to exert
itself to the utmost in war preparation
using every moment of spare time in
useful work, but it is equally import
ant for this generation to consider
carefully the expediency of depriving
the rising generation of the time and
means of securing the educational
equipment which will be so necessary
for the assumption of the responsible
ty of paying the debt that the present
generation has incurred to secure the
freedom of its offspring.
To the same extent that it is not
wise to take the time the children
should have left to them in the pur-
suit of an adequate preparation by
way of educational equipment is it
wise for parents to see to it that their
time is not uselessly wasted in too
much frivolty, dawdling, and the &C.
QUESTION of idle habits which will
cling to the child long after it has at
tanned the mature age and even to the
end of life. There is no substitute for
consistent hard work in developing
hardy manhood.
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