If Jennie is not commended, she will have no reason to believe that her
honesty and restraint are really valued.
It is a shameful neglect on the part of a teacher to allow children to
lie habitually and do nothing to make them truthful. Mr. Boling, to
lessen a minor wrong, tolerated a gross misdeed.
Clifton was daily learning anarchy, and demonstrating to the school that
lawlessness is regarded as “smart” by some. This idea should be speedily
corrected.
In place of the honor system which invariably has the three classes of
dispositions above described to deal with, a better plan is isolation.