The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-12-11
For The Cecil VIM.
NORTH EAST. DEC. 9Th SO

NohlH rAST, DEC ON, %.
Ep!roR CFClL WING In last week s
u Ing" you surmise that the School Dis
trcts that wish good competent teacher,
will have to make up among themselves a
couple of hundred dollars to add to the sala.
,ies allowed by the School Commissioners. -
These are not exactly your woods bit think
ii Is about the shape to put 1t in. Now. it is
not my intention to contradict, or to find fault
with your sutnSe, for If it is not correct |
know not in what other way the deficiency is
to be made up: but does it nor strike You as
a singular way to start Free Schools. We had
subscription Schools, and shall we call the
| schools we are going to have Free SubSCrjp-
ton Schools We had Schools before the reign
of School Commissioners. the teachers of
| which received pnft of their salaries from
the county, and what great difference is there
to be! 1t is tue, the School Commissioners
will pay hHle larger proportion than the
county did, hut where and when are we to
expect FIRE. Schools if about half the paw is
to be made up by subscription? If the
School Law as it now is will not warrant the
School Commissioners in giving lis Free
Schools. why lot " shut up shop :" for srch
IL system of Free Schools can hardly be what
the advocates of Free Schools expected and
will cost too much TO altogether sait the OPP
poSers of Free Education.
A few words in reference to teachers and
the salaries paid FOR teachers. One Of the
principal Of the many objections that can be
urged against the system (or no svs'em) of
subscription schools, is the insufficient pay
and consequent nSuDic'cncy, or incompc,cncy
of teachers. Poor pay and poor teachers, are
cause and elect. The educated, refined cncr-
gciic, sober, industrious and moral, mot to
say religious), man will not be satisfied to
plud along through life in such thankleSs
business he wants sufficient remuneration,
and men of the proper stamp for teachers
either gu where they can obtain pay, if they
choose to be teachers, or they become book.
keepers, clerks tradcSmcn, anything honest
that VIII afford decent living and something
for n rainy day. Now mere subsistence
may be ekcd out by teacher who receives
the salary the Commissioners Offer, or that
could have been made under the old (no)
system. but who that has proper forethoughl
viii be satisfied to live in this way.
You Editors are supposed to be depositareS
of knowledge: do You know which of our
School Commissioners lives upon $500 per
anrum and do not they save something each
year? We'll a person who commences teach.
ing at the aye OF twenty and continues at il
until he is eighty could not have more than
the poorest kind of a poor cotton umb' ella
laid by for sad rainy day, if he was no better
paid than teachers in this county have been
or are likely to be who teach tie district
Schools. And teachers who make it the bust
ness Of life, arc about the only on worthy
of the name. lie who takes up lhe business
ofteachng fora "quarter winter season,
thai they could not well fill up in my other
way, is no more teacher than the person,
who works with Jack plane II half day: ass
carpenter Mere Jacks at the trade is all We
will have until the llaGe is made to pay as it
Should in this county.
The subject is not exhausted but for tie
present, no more. PHiLoN.