r3-(Sec. Ill) Statesman, Salem. Ore., Sun., Oct. 21. '58
Mother to Take fa
By GEORGE SITTERLET "VI
CALIFORNIA, Mo. Oct 20 W
A test of . Missouri's compulsory
school attendance law is headed
for the Circuit Court because Mrs.
Mary L. Schoneheit wouldn't give
up her fight against formal edu
cation for her 7-year-old daughter
Mary. v - -
With the volunteered help of
St. Louis attorney, she has ap
pealed Magistrate Court order
that she put Mary in public school
by Monday or serve out a 10-day
jail sentence and pay a IS fine.
W. G. Heidbredcr, Moniteau
County magistrate, sentenced her
Wednesday after he found the for
mer school teacher had refused
to send her daughter to school.
WAVES DAMAGE SHIP
LE HAVRE, Trance, Oct. 20
The French liner He de France
arrived from New York today 12
hours behind schedule, her super
structure damaged by a violent
storm. Ship officials said waves
at one point flooded six cabins. No
one was reported injured.
Mrs. Schoenheit argued that pub
lic schools just turn youngsters
into "trained seals." She said she
has given her daughter "substan
tially equivalent" instruction at
home. - .
Freed from Jail
Mrs. Schoenheit went to jail, but
a few hours later was released on
her promise to put Mary in school.
Late Thursday, Ward Driscoll of
St. Louis called Mrs. Schoenheit
to offer his help as an attorney
and they decided yesterday on the
appeal.
Why did she start the fight in
the first place? What made her
"flee from society?" ,
Possibly the biographical notes
she typed out at home in the old
rural house, "on 20 acres of Mis
souri brush," provide a key.
She was born and reared in
Cameron, a small agricultural
center in northwestern Missouri.
She grew up to become an accom
plished musician, a public and
private school teacher and later
a book reviewer and lecturer.
She married a former Kansas
City Philharmonic Hutist, Brown
Schoenheit, and he became her
manager during the years she
lectured to groups in California.
Then, she said, she found out
she was just a "pseudo-intellectual."
She wanted to quit the lec
ture circuit but her husband dis
suaded her.
Shortly after that, she found she
was to be a mother and "I vowed
to become a model parent and
conventional member of society.
"We moved to the suburbs. Im
mediately my troubles began, due
chiefly to the Intelligence and tem
perament of my infant. I tried
everything.
Yeara of Experlmentatioa
"Back of me today are seven
years of experimentation, disap
pointments, study, research.
thought and suffering.
She said she studied the text
books and books on modern teach
ing methods. After going through
them, she said, "If I didn't know
better, I would say they were writ
ten in an insane asylum."
Mrs. Schoenheit says "Brilliant
children are quiet, sensitive and
dignified. They do not do well in
school. They can't adjust to being
like everyone else. They become
behavior problems and suffer
dreadfully."
That's when the guidance coun
selors she calls them "brain
pickers' step in and finish the
job, she says.
"Their Tartare"
"I made up my mind I could
never submit to their insults or
surrender my child to their tor
ture," Mrs. Schoenheit said.
If she loses her fight here, she
says she may move to Mississippi
or Alabama we nave relatives
there and they won't treat us the
way we've been treated here."
She says she has received 60 or
70 letters from other persons who,
like herself have complained
against education systems now in
operation. All but one cheered her
(for her stand, she said, and one
writer even sent her $5 to help
finance her private "war."
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