Excerpt from Annual Report of the Financial Affairs to the Town of Canterbury, Including a Report From the Board of Education: For the Year Ending March 1, 1890
With the introduction of free text-books should be ar ranged a course of study, not an inflexible one, that would be absurd in ungraded schools, but a plan of study that will aid the teacher in classifying the school, and the ad vanced pupil in taking his subjects in the best order; that will insure the little ones learning more than reading and Spelling during the first two years, and save the enor mous waste of time that results from every change of teachers when the school has no plan of work. In the best schools of the country much attention isgiven to this, and the advice and aid of the best educators obtained. Here the matter is left to the whim of the pupil, the one person least qualified to decide. Perhaps the advice of the teacher is asked. If she proves inexperienced or lacks wide culture, she counsels taking a subject which she enjoys teaching. We urge our citizens to think of this and give the school board such encouragement that they will feel justified in introducing a carefully prepared course of study.
Whenever the schools are not administered entirely in the interest of the children, a grievous wrong is commit ted. Parents, as well as school officers, have a duty to perform. Children have a right to all the school time provided by the district. Whenever a parent or guardian detains a child from school for work, it is a wrong that can never be righted. It means, to the child, lost advan tages and opportunities that can never come again. It takes from the child’s future fortune many times the value of his time for work, and he is robbed by his near est friends.
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