Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 much time lost in these ways. Time enough has been wasted during che last three months to-give one pupil a fair common school education. This is unjust to your childrenin two ways; for it deprives them of a large amount of education which is paid for and to which they are justly entitled; besides, you permit them to form habits of irregularity and dilatoriness that will follow them through life. Many of the failures in life may be traced directly to the habits of irregularity and inattention formed in youth by the permission of parents and connivance* of teachers. Second, our school will reopen on next Monday, January 3d ? 1876, promptly at half past eight 4’clock, and it is the earnest of teachers and trustees that every scholar be in his seat at that time. The next term 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 the rules of LaPorte, Delphi, and other good schools. It is hoped every parent and every good citizen will cooperate 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 just as intelligent as those of any other community and with regular attendance, good order, andV earnest our schools can, at bnce, be placed on a footing where they will compare favorably with the best. It costs just as much to run our schools with one hundred pupils as it does with two hundred, for teachers’ wages go on and fires burn just the same, whether the school rooms are full 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. Com.