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Schools, Public
1858
07 08 Bible reading, Superintendent Gill WD
08 12 Examination
of teachers WD
09 09 Teachers
for fall term of the public schools WD
09
09 Miss P. G. Jones conducts private
school WD
09
23 Failure to build two union school houses WD
1866
Watertown High School established.
1870s c
Mr. John Ford was
first Superintendent of Schools under the union plan, afterward Commissioner of
Schools for the Sixth Ward for one year, and in 1878 was Commissioner of
Schools for the First Ward.
1880-1904
Prof
Charles Viebahn, Principal and Superintendent of School (1880-1904)
While he was principal of the schools
of Manitowoc in 1873 he established the first kindergarten in the state to be operated in connection with a
public school.
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William Voss served a number of terms embracing
two long periods as president of the school board. His interest in the working of the schools
was so intense that he was intimately versed in all of the work of the schools
and was in close touch with all of the plans necessary to be made. His interest in the school board was almost
passion and his leadership was an inspiration to fellow members of the board,
teachers and all in any way connected with the work.
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1904, 10
16
Superintendent
of Schools William D. Roseman gives the following excellent advice to parents
relative to signing the monthly report cards of students:
"You are earnestly urged to
examine the cards carefully and sign them in English or German. Please do not
delegate this duty to your child. The interest which you show in examining the
cards will, to a great extent, determine you child's progress in school. If the
marks are low, inquire why, and encourage them to earn higher marks next month.
It takes much time and energy, on the part of the teachers, to issue report
cards and unless you examine them, and sign them personally, the result will
not warrant the expenditure of the same. It can be spent to a greater advantage
in other directions."
1904
11 12
Some day, perhaps, we will return to sane methods in the teaching of
children: Speed that day. At the present time the little ones are the victims
of education gone mad. Their small heads are troubled with things beyond their
understanding and they are made to say things like a parrot. Fancy a little
grammar student of 10 attempting to diagram a sentence taken from a history of
mythology! And fancy a child of 9 struggling to read ancient history with all
the latter's unpronounceable names! It is all - all wrong. We are not teaching
children in these days. We are simply attacking their nervous systems and
racking their undeveloped brains. WDT
1908
09
11 Eighth grade transferred from High School
to vacant room in School No. 4. WG
1958
04 23 Watertown Citizens Council for Better
Schools formed WDT
1998
08 01 Proposed laws
concerning student conduct in public schools
WDT
Cross-References:
No 1:
Patrick Rogan organized the school system here in 1855, having secured
the passage of the act providing therefore.
