Show von SUII 1 U I 11 II His 1 View iCV of Pun Punishment I Editor Mountain Inter Republican Prom From I Ithe the nature of tho the report of or m my talk b before before be be- 1 fore th tbt the normal students which appeared rd in Friday mornings morning's Issue INne I fear foal I na may have been misunderstood I do not 1101 believe be ho- lieve the teachers teacher's primary prima duty Is to look for or the evil evi In a pupil 1111 nor no am 1 I Ian I 1 Ih an advocate of corporal punishment h have never yet Cl felt fel It m my dut duty to administer administer ad ad- 01 minister corporal punishment to a pupil The Th rule governing go this form of or punish punish- tnt In our out city school schools a ays nys Corporal I Is allowed with wih tic the approval of ot the principal In extreme ca cases es though principals are advised not to permit such punishment except under compulsion of or absolute ec necessity when other other less severe modes of or discipline have hav failed ailed to lo reform u pupil pupil It I hull huli hul never ne er be he until after consultation with wh and approval of the principal In no case caHO i is It to be 10 be ad an- administered al- al ministered in the presence of 01 th the school chool In lh lii- lii of some other hut but always tl presence preferably the Ut principal and pen pen- at ut the close clop of the session But PO 10 10 upU shall be he subjected to punishment and suspension for th the iho same 0 m or During Durin th the present year there have not I been a half dozen cases of corporal oral cor rum pun Jun- Jun l nt In ITt the tho whole city With 15 I In ill the schools this record certainly Ct Indicates that hInt th's thIs form of punishment punish punish- meat ment Is practically abolished or out out- grown growl Instance where COI cor- I dIet cited yesterday an punishment had hall In ho accordance with wah regulations b been n administered l Good Goot app apparently ap ap- ap- ap p resul resulted d There ma may be a n question fues- fues ques lion tion however as ns to whether it i was permanent permanent permanent per per- manent ton anti and Ul as to whether some ore other treatment I admit I am nn unable to 1 ue ut t might not have been more ef ef- I I h S I I f active I. I cl n lt 1 certain school a 10 boy of ot ten years ear tore lor the tile cover from a new der r lint Hint lh t thin hoard oard had provided ed him The le pr principal held a conference with wih th the lad lud nn and through h moral sUl ln to start the bo boy along alon a better r way War The Tho nother notter however under the tue tw regulations regulation ton hind had to In P Y for th the injury to lo the lie boo boo- A week later th the lad isil lar for or reasons understood I by but himself elf destroyed cc another n IW w hoo book with wih ills his knife A 17 t the e principal labored ored with wih him In Iii a o of extreme and solicitude The Thi mother a it f widow and wn washerwoman had another mother book to lo I pay lCY for A third new with vh a a fale fil und 1 t art vl c l Iho tho pUI 1 thI tv a. n t on ur or tuia tho compel mm to r. r corporal Th The h i bov ho 05 nave o 11 Ulve o that Hint It Would not 1101 occur again nd and that lif Lu h. h was ua extremely I orr sorry orry because of his T past rast st misconduct mis nils- conduct low However ver It did dil occur again and the pupil pupi and principal decided that there therea a Was sas but lut one th n thing to do It I was wa done ciota Xo No o more mOr books hook were d destroyed find and to nil appearances the lad td ha lias as been a model pupil pupi since that time two years ago aKO I T leave th the ma matter ler to the reader as 1 I Idid Idid did to the tine students at the normal school to te determine whether under the circumstances dream circum stances the best thin thing was done for the Individual ual child No I T dont don't believe that the teachers teacher's rs r's duty Is 18 to 10 look for the evil evi In Ina Ina Inn a n child Should I the he teacher teach r discover in inthe inthe inthe the course courS of her duty what she considers nn an evil evi tendency In a child then of 01 course she must have hav the mora moral coura courage 0 to meet the situation all al the tact and goo good sense she has halo But nut I am too much of f an optimist to believe In groveling In Inthe the darkness Let Lt us look at the bright brightside side of life lre All Al children have ha some good goot g. g In all al the good dominates Let us provide pro an aD environment environ environ- ment meat and train training In favorable for the development devel and ant growth of good rood habits and most of th the supposed evils will wi vanish as ns he dew tw before the tile morning sun Bun D D. IT II Christensen |