Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — School Days. [ARTICLE]

School Days.

The Cherokees have more day schools and more Indian teachers than all the other tribes combined. Last month there were registered in the New York public schools 23,700 more pupils than for the same time a year ago. Of the 20.000,000 children who stopped school in June last fully 5,000,000 were missing In September, most of these of an, age that should still be at their studies. • Dwight Clark, aged seventy-five, is the oldest teacher in the Springfield (Mass.) public schools. He is not only the oldest in years, but also the oldest In point of service, having taught for an uninterrupted period of fifty-eight years.