Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-08-08
TRAINING SCHOOL NOTES
By Prof. b. Mack Dresden

Statistics, as rule. make dry read
ing When they deal with home condi-
tions, however, they become interesting
and valuable The report of the state
superintendent for 1918 has some inter
esting figures for Rusk county. 1t
shows that the illiteracy of people 10
years of age and over is 203 or % per
cent The illiteracy for the state is 30
per cent. While this county is better
than the state as a whole, the percent
age is entirely too high.
The report shows also that in four
school districts with a population of
| $50 Polish is spoken almost entirely,
and two districts with a population of
| go Bohemian is the only language
spoken outside of the school. This fact
may account for the large illiteracy
percentage
This county spent in 1918 for the
graded schools $36 30, for the high
schools outside of Ladysmith $20,06O.
O4 and for the town highschools 50, 1872,
S2-a total of $40, ,9SS.S2. There were
in the county II rural schools. 8 state
graded schools and four highschOols.
These schools required 125 teachers.
The figures prove amply the urgent
need of an institution like the training
school to prepare teachers for the
schools.
The training school is an institution
supported by the state and the county
jointly AS result, no tuition is
charged to residents of the county.
Students of other counties have their
tuition paid by the county board of
their home county, if that county has
no training school. The only payment
made to the school is $4O0 a year. for
which sum the student is supplied with
all necessary textbooks and reference
books The law allows us to charge
other counties $4,000 per year for tut
ton. This is about half Of what other
towns must pay for highSchool tuition
for their pupils Certificates obtained
as a result of graduation from this
school are good in other counties of the
state.
Salaries paid i'll Rusk county are
now as high as are those paid in most
western states Graduates from this
school can teach here at high salaries
they do not need to go so araway from
home among strangers. In several or
the western states the legislatures
have appointed committees to report at
the next session plan for required
teacher training All competent school
people and the school boards are rapid
idly learning that teachers need to be
trained as well as other professional
people.
All schools in the county have name
now. If they are located on or near a
rural delivery route, they must have a
mail box This brings the schools
much nearer the resources of the train
ing school, which will be able to be
even more helpful to teachers and
schools than ever before
prospective SluueiilS are ulSeu "
note that the session of the training
school begins Monday, Sept. l. If pos
sible, they should notify the principal
that they intend to enroll. The princl-
pal has been asked whether students
can enroll at later date. Yes, but it
! is not advisable to do so. If you enroll
late. you cannot finish in the spring.
| You will then be obliged to take what
ever schools may happen to be vacant.
| You will have no choice in the matter.
# no school happens to be vacant when
YOU finish, you will have to wait until
the fall to get to teaching Start III the
beginning of the year, if at all possible.
nxCAMu OF ANDREM III I.EIl,H ,HER