The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-23
EDUCATIONAL.
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THE TEACHERS TRAINING
SCHOOL

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graduated over 400 teachers most of
whom taught in the county from two
to thirteen or more years. Nearly 80
per cent of the teachers teaching in the
rural schools of the county at present
are Training School graduates. Others
are filling positions in the cities and
villages of the county. The qualfica-
tionS and standards of these graduates
are high and seldom is there failure,
| Manitowoc county teachers are looked
up to and are held in high esteem by
superintendents, institute conductors,
and normal schools.
Today all the schools in the county
are in session and have been from the
beginning of the year. Many counties
in the state have a number of schools
closed for lack of teachers and many
others have resorted to the doubtful
practice of sending high school stu
dents with no training to teach in the
rural schools. Mantowoc county must
be thankful that it has Training
School which has graduated enough
well trained teachers for all of its
schools, These trained teachers, after
leaving the Training School are still
partially under the supervision of the
Training School faculty who also in
vite these teachers to call at school for
assistance and advice in solving their
problems.
The Manitowoc County Training
School was one of the first to be or
ganized in the state but in all that
time it has never had a home of its
own. A large proportion of the Train
ing Schools organized after our school
have homes of which the people of
those counties are proud. Is it not
time that we have a home of our own?
Once or twice in the last ten or twelve
years, it has been proposed that a
home be furnished for the school and
each time the cry was "the cost! think
of the costp' What has been t1e cost ?
For the last fifteen or sixteen years we
have been located in rooms over the
Manitowoc Public library, located on
Eighth street These rooms consist of
one large room poorly and improperly
lighted, one small narrow recitation
room on the south side of the build
ing, one small recitation room on the
east side, and small Office On rainy'I
days you will find the floors of the of
flee and recitation rooms decorated
with several varieties of pans and
dishes belonging to the domestic sci
ence class, these pans and dishes col
lecting the drippings from the ceiling.
You can imagine what decorations the
ceiling and walls bear after repeated
rain storms. Down in the basement
corner has been reserved for manual
training department, a place poorly
lighted and altogether inadequate,
How the teachers manage the domestic
science work in one corner of the reci-
tation room is a mystery. Toilet facil-
ties there are none except those used
by the public, the condition of which
has sometimes even made the public
hesitate in using them. Certainly pub
lie toilets are not safe for the students
we send To the Teachers Training
School For all these wonderful ac
commodations the county is paying
5000 year rent with excellent pros
poets of an increase when the present
lease expires. This is not the only
cost. Every twelve minutes street
car roars by compelling the class to
wait a minute until they can hear them
selves talk Then there is the roar of
auto trucks, wagons, and other noises
of busy street all at the expense of
the work in the school. 1t costs APP
, proximately 800 a year to train a
teacher in n County Training School in
this state. If we do motif urnish proper
accommodation for students these stu
dents will go to Normal schools;
schools far away from home; schools
because of the large numbers unable to
give the individual attention Train
ing School gives, and costing you APP
proximately $500 per year for each
student
What would home cost the county?
| The assessed valuation Of the county
including the cities is SS0,000,O00. On
this large assessed valuation an APP
preparation of $4,000 for four or five
years will more than pay for first
class home. This appropriation will
fix a tax of twelve and one-half cents
on every $1,000 dollars or Sl.25 tax on
$4,000 assessed valuation. Aid
amounting 70 $4,000 is appropriated by
the state toward a Training School
building. The Training School has like
wise a balance of over $4,000 from APP
preparations by the state and the
county.
Certainly there is no one who can
afford To grant the Training School
| home at such small cost to themselves
when they receive such great benefits
from this school They are saving
300 a year per student by having
them trained at home. Then there is
the saving to the student in travelling
/ and living costs.