New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-02

Stat. sysry year suggest csanses IN tue laws "o""
N. ,,bic \ a mover demanded, AID the Legislators
after. 70 ,b,,r recommendation. Is tho School
DspsI,neot alone to be governed BY d'nefen'
RUE ~.
9. II undoubtedly costs more to 90 tnisg IMAM
70 Leave Il u.dons. We believe that, under the eid
,ystem. the Schools We scarcely at gu sapef'isos
or II ,pected. while tho examination OF teachers
was mainly farce. II tAe District super'n.ena'
euts are paid too much. reduce their oonpensssoa
but il the necessary work is to be really dote' l"
clear that two or three men in county VII 90
better than fifteen or twenty wouA''
3. If the Town superintendent acre PAID by
"a, while the District are psid out 81 the School
Fund of course the Town Tax was higher 'naa II
DOW il, While the general School Tax WAS 'o"er'
ALI that was lost by the change at one e'd was
o,;ns1 At the other. 30 that this objection amounts
to nothing.
a. The very matter in dispute IS the greater On
less efficiency and fitness of District a. compared
with Town Superintendent. Ii is not 10 De se'''ed
by mere assertion.
: The Board of Supervisors OF County com
posed of fifteen or twenty towns, osghf to choose
better Superintendent two or three IN NUMBER
than the people of township OF nifty 70 nve nun
dred voters will be likely to elect The range nr
seIscton il much wider and the choice more delio-
crate than can be made BY voters at an eicl'ed
town meeting, wherein they are eIhorted oy ieno~'
psrtissus to Vote the Ticket" mo Scratcn-
ing" Sc.
s. The District Superintendent is not required
TO know what is best for the different to''ns'
The duties of teacher, the character OF good or
had school are the same in one town as in another
:. wethink Supervisors who should choose unht
School Superintendent " from political conslden-
tons," would prove themselves sorry politicians.
Political considerations" with all other, should
impe them TO choose the best Superintendent that
could be had.
8. If there be any County in which District
Superintendent can only retain bis office BY giving
certificates of competency as teachers TO unquah-
fed applicants, We think that County needs 'no
best sort of superintendent for some years hence
forward. We do believe it is more likely 70 secure
this under the new than under the old system, and
that Town Superintendent would be more exposed
TO the temptation here instaneed than District.
9. We cannot see how teachers should be re-
CURED TO travel anything Like twenty miles TO DO
examined. The District Superintendent OF course
visits each town at least twice pesr-he ought to
do so quarterly if not monthly. He will naturally
give notice beforehand of his visits; if not, any one
interested can learn when he is coming by dropping
him line. Where is the hardship here
The sting of our correspondents bill Of complaint
s in its tail, where sting should be. He grumbies
that IN asprant 20 teach may travel ever so fsr 70
be examined by the Superintendent of his Assembly
District, only to be denied certificate, being told
that "he is hardly fit, becesse he did not attend
Teachers Institute" L. B. does not know how
to state our side of the question. He is denied
certificate" it is true not because he did not AZ
tend Teachers Institute, but because he does not
kno,o what he might hare learned BY attending one
Judging by his grammar and diction, we suspect
E. B. is one Of these wOuld-be teachers, and that
soreness of head is the occasion of his grief. We
would Ike to see his SORROWS assusged, but not In
The way he indicates.