every effort to give their children at least the best education that
can be obtained in the public schools.



GOVERNMENT.

The school has rules to govern it, that the pupil may be guided,
directed, and protected in the pursuit of knowledge. Schools can not
work without order, and there can be no order without government. The
members of the school desire that good order be maintained, for they
know their success depends upon it; so that school, government, like
all other good government, exists by the consent and for the good of
the governed.

OFFICERS.--The school, like all other governments, has its officers.
These are the school board, or trustees, and the teacher. They are
responsible for the government and good conduct of the school. There
are, in most governments, three kinds of officers, corresponding to the
three departments of government--the legislative, the judicial, and the
executive. The legislative department of the government makes the
laws, the judicial department explains them, and the executive
department executes them. School officers are mostly executive; that
is, their chief duties are to enforce the laws made by the legislature
for the government of the public schools. As they also make rules for
the school, their duties are partly legislative.

APPOINTMENT, TERM OF OFFICE.--The district officers are usually elected
by the legal voters of the school district; but in some States they are
appointed by the county superintendent, or county school commissioner