Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1875 — Rensselaer Schools. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Schools.

The attention of parents is earnestly called to two things. First, to the reports of the last term, especially, to the items of tardiness and absence. There is entirely too mock time lost in these ways. Time enough has been wasted during the last three months to give one pupil a fair, common school education. This is

unjust to year children in two ways. It deprive s them of a large afiiount of education, which is paid for and to which they are justly entititled ; besides you permit them to form habits of irregularity and dilator'-' ness that will follow them through life.— Many of the failures iu life may be traced directly to to the habits of Irregularity and inattention formed in youth by the permission of permits and the connivance of teachers. . V--; Second, our schools will reopen on next -Monday, January 8, 1876, promptly at half past eight o’clock, and it is tbe earnest desire of teach ears and trustees that every scholar be in hie seat at that time. The next terra will last twelve weeks and we want every pupil there every day. The trustees, at a late meeting, adopted a set of rules, for the government of our schools similar to these of LaPorte, Delphi, and other good schools. We hope every parent and every good citise n will eo-operate heartily with teachers and trustees in enforcing these rules and in making our schools equal to any in the State. The children of Rensselaer are j ost as intolfigent as those of any other place, and ■frith regular attendance, good order, and Ernest study, our schools can at once be placed on a footing where they will compare favorably with the best. It costs as much to run our schools with one hundred pupils as it does with two hundred ; for teachers’ wages go on, and fires born just the same, whether our school j joins are foil or empty. Let us then act the part of ordinary wisdom and get the worth of our money. The teachers are in earnest; let the parents get in earnest, and we will have a profitable school. *