Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — SCHOOL REPORT. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL REPORT.

The following is a report of the Rensselaer public schools for the first month ending September 80th, 1879: Whole number enrolled, 217; average daily attendance, 197; per cent, of attendance, 91; per cent, of conduct, 96; percent, of punctuality, 99; per cent, of study, 98; number of excuses accepted by principal, 16; number of excuses aoeapted by teacher, 77. Names of pupils whose monthly report is S. Primary A. —Agnes Healy, Mabel Hopkins, Alice Webber, Ida Milliken, Roes Beck, Annie Webber, Lilly Platt, Ollie Erwin, Mary T. Chilcote, Warner Grant, Isaac Leopold, Gussie Grant, Willie Hammond, Frank Maloy, Charlie Rhoades, Warren Washburn.—l 6. Primary B.—Cora Adams, Mary Adams, Lee Catt, Charles Daugherty, Ella Everson, Rebecca Fendig, Crilly Hutson, Birdie Hammond, Nellie Hopkins, Nellie Kelley, Geo. Minikua, George Moss, David Platt, Emerson Reeve, Charlie Rhoades, Birdie Spitler, Paul Troy, Dallas Warren, Walter Willey, Mattie Warden.—2o. Intermediate department.—lda Clark, Henry Daugherty, Katie Green, Lucy Healy Wesly Karsner, Frank Kepner, Lore ns Peacock, Robert Platt, Charles Platt, Fannie Wood, Inex Hutson, Gertie Robinson, Fannie Dunn, Mary Dunn.—ll. Grammar department— Fred; L. Chilcote, Della Hopkins, Myrta Hinkle, Hattie Hopkins, Louesa Platt, Addie Daugherty, Adelia Boroughs,'Carrie Eger.—B, High School. —Belle Alter, Arilla Cotton, Lola Moss, Elmer Dwiggins, Ora Thompson, Charles Warner, Delos Thompson, Lilly Alter, Celia Childers; James Irwin, Minnie Phillips, Ella Rhoades, Ella Ryan, Nellie Spitler, Mary Weathers, Nettie Everson, Edith A. Miller, Euphs Miller, Henry Smith, Frank Weathers.—2o The first month of schoool passed off pleasantly and profitably. Earnest thorough work is being done by the pupils or all the grades. The teachers are using ail the tact and energy they possess to make their schools interesting and efficient.— While the schools are doing as much or more thorough work, and while there is m much interest and as strong Ja desire to learn on the part of the pupils as was ever manifested before, yet there is a lukewarmness somewhere as is shown by the monthly enrollment. There are from 50 to 76 children of school age in town who are not in school, but should be there. Whose fault is it that they are not there? Parents, if it be yours, let the duty you owe your children in the matter of education and the desire to do the best for them within your power impel you to take a more aotive interest in their education.