The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-10-15
SCHOOL NEWS
and VIEWS


Several attempts to organize
Moonlight Schools" have resulted in
failure so far as attendance is concern
ed. A special effort was made at Glen
Dean to start a night school, The
county superintendent, through the
cooperation of the Post Master at
that place, secured a special census
of those who could not read and write
and the local trustee called personally
upon almost every one and secured
their promise to attend. Miss Nell
Norman, a teacher in the State Nor
NAL School at Bowling Green, agreed
to give the month of September to
the work, but on the night set for
the opening only two were present
and the next night none. Probably
the illiterates think it is not worth
the while when even they are earning
more than the teachers who propose
to teach them. Another attempt will
be made at Glen Dean by the teachers
there.
How thoroughly do you plan and
outline your different lesson assign
ments from day to day? You are on
| an examination for a certificate and
are asked to Outline a lesson plan
as you would present it to the Sixth
Grade Geography" what will you do
with that proposition? Must you con-
jure up an assumed plan and wonder
how much of grade it will get you,
or do you have definite plan in mind
that you have used and which you
know to be good one?
Are your pupils between sever, and
fourteen all in school? If not it is
your duty to report them to your
trustee and see WY they are not in
school at least three days in each
week. We will never eradicate litter.
acy so long as we have hall our child
len Of school age out of school for
half the term ard some even longer.
Teachers should write to John c.
Winston Co., Philadelphia, Pa, and
ask for the Teachers Manual which
is given free to accompany the First
and Second Winston Readers. This
Manual is so arranged as to be of
| great help to the teacher, not only in
presenting the lesson to the class but
as a means of permanent improve
ment of the teachers ability as
teacher of reading
This is a splendid time in the year
to give practical lessons in Agricul-
ture. Arrange with a nearby farmer
to select his seed corn for him, then
take your class in Agriculture to the
| field and select the seed corn from
the standing stalks in the field Give
due regard to the size and proportion
| of the stalk, the height of the ear
from the ground, the Favored En-
viroment' of the stalk, the proximity
of barren stalks, the form of the ear,
the shape of the grains, and the size
OF the cob. Make the points plain
then ask the pupils to go home and
help their fathers select his seed corn
for next year in the same way Any
teacher can earn his salary in the
district from the increased yield of
corn alone; if careful selection is
practiced for two or three years, and
fall selection of seed introduced
The tax paid in Breckenridge
county for local school purposes a
mounts to about ST. 35 per child per
year. A child who starts to school at
six years of age and attends until the
| age OF eighteen would spend twelve
years in school. At the present rate
| the total cost of making an average
American citizen of him would be
$500. This $500 provides a rural
school within the reach of every child,
maintains the building, pays a large
part of the teachers very poor salary.
furnishes all the fuel and other in
cidentals, and maintains a first class
High school free to every child in the
county.
| Twenty-four took the examination
for teachers certificate in September,
and of that number seventeen made
passing grades. Nine made First
Class and eight made Second Class
certificates. Three of the unsuccess-
full ones failed in Spelling, three in
Arithmetic, and one on the General
Average.
The Community Club organized by
Mr.. Chintz Royalty. the teacher in
the Kingswood district, has saved to
the farmers in that community sew
eral hundred dollars in the purchase
of Fertilizers alone. The farmers oil
the community ordered their Fertil-
izer in carload lots at a saving oil
several dollars per ton. You can dc
the same in your district.
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/ have mailed to each teacher Z
copy of letter sent out by the Stat,
Board of Health suggesting precau
tons against recurrence of the in
huenza epidemic. Let me urge tina
every teacher use his very best effort!
to see that the suggestions are com
piled with. Every suggestion is ;
0 good one for the preservation o
4 health even though no epidemic wer,
e imminent, and with the experience
!. of last season fresh in our memoir,