Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-01
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES.

Owing to the unusual shortage of
teachers, it has been necessary to IL.
cense number of high school grad
yates for positions in the rural
schools of Grant county. The i'm
preston has gotten out that these
permits were granted on application.
This is not true as, without a single
exception, such APPLICANTS have writ
ten examination in all subjects re-
quired for the regular Bird grade GER
tificates.
1t may be true that there are some
teachers who are not legally ouali-
fed to teach in Grant county. but have
certificates issued in other counties or
in other states To these want to
call attention to the new law which
provides that ali teachers, who haven't
certificates issued from this office.
must file with the county superintend-
ent within ten days after entering in
to contract to teach in any public
school, certified statement showing
the date of expiration, by whom issu-
ed, and grade and character of GER
titicate held. The penalty for wilful
neglect or refusal to comply with this
law is forfeiture of one weeks sal
ary This applies to teachers holding
state certificates or state licenses and
to persons holding county certificates
who propose to teach in county 9TH
er than the one in which their certi-
ficate was issued
Owing to the unusual situation
school boards will do we'll to make
sure that their teacher is legally
qualified. Now is the time, not at the
end of the school year when the Dues
ton whether or not you will get your
state apportionment comes up. 1t will
be too late then to qualify for your
share because of neglect on your part
to give above mentioned your atten-
| ton.
Many Of the school boards have
failed to comply with the law which
requires that mail box be put up at
each school house, with name of the
school on it. Mail carriers are re-
quired to deliver all mail addressed
to school directly to school and not
to some member of the board. Put up
mail box.
Last year thru the efforts of E.
Cooper and Miss Hagerty of the Uni
| yersity and Mr.. Davies and myself
Boys and Girls Club work was start
ed in Grant county. The educational
value of this work is too obvious to
require much explanation. This
work meets the much heard criticism
OF our schools that we give too much
attention to books and not enough at
| tention to giving our boys and girls
real problems, so when they get out
OF school they are not prepared to
cope with conditions confronting
them. In these projects which these
boys and girls undertake they not on
ly learn the fact, the how thing is
done, but they are carried the next
step and actually carry out the in
! structiOns given. / firmly believe that
any boy or girl who has raised calf,
pig or raised an acre of corn has
learned the principles of care of feed
ing and seeding as he can learn it
/ from no book. We intend to push
this work harder than ever this year.
I am asking the cooperation of all
the people Of Grant county.
One phase of this work is the dem
onstration teams which are develop
ed. During the year boys and girls
learn processes of dying, canning,
care of poultry, care of potatoes, etc.
At the end Of the year three best pu-
pills are chosen to conduct these dem
onstrations at the various fairs in
the county and the best team goes to
the state fair at Milwaukee. AS this
was our first year in the work all
the schools did not respond as had
hoped they would; that up-to-date
village of Bloomington, being the on
| ly school, having team, consisting
of Florence Ludden, Marian Greer
and Mary Pendleton. Those who saw
these girls at work at the Lancaster
| fair will agree with me when I say
that this work surely meets the much
heard criticism that our schools are
not doing enough practical work. We
have IA high schools and ten graded
schools in Grant county. / am max
ing my appeal directly to those schools
to take up this work the coming year
SO by next fall we may have demon
| stration teams from all the high and
graded schools at least, competing at
the four or five fairs in Grant county
and the best team at the State fair at
j Milwaukee, shall cnn tho va riouc