The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-05-06
EDUCATIONAL.

Ia compliance with the request below, we
have consented to give Mr. Wedgewood and
others interested in educational matters a col.
unn, more or less, each week, on the second page
OF our paper, under the heading Educational"
EDITORS FREE TRADER: l desire to ask a
column of your paper each week for educational
notes. There are many times when desire to
call the attention Of teachers to notices Of n.t.
tutes, drills, &c, and AM obliged to publish cir.
cusrs and notices in three or four papers in order
to roach oil the teachers, land even then do not
reach them from the fact that no teacher know.
what one paper 70 look TO for such notices. This
puts the county 10 considerable expense, which
l can avoid if Con let the teachers know VIVA,
| ono paper to lock 70 for educational no.e. Vsry
often the State Superintendent issues notices 10
| me concerning school officers duties, and I
would like to speak to them often through ,ou.
paper which .h.il be able to do if they can
know in what paper to look Tor communication.
from me. II you will grant my r-qu-s. I will
| see that some educational matter shall bs fur
al.hsd ssch week should be glad il teachers
| and school officers would write for thi. column,
| and 60 it may bs nAde both interesting and in.
| structivs 70 them. Every week receive letters
from different pA-ts of the county from teachers
whom know "a be worthy, asking for positions,
and yss l cannot refer them to places whore
| there are vacancies, though l know that msuy
directors are hiring incompetent persons to teach,
for the want Of just such = source of iuforma.
tisn. II you give US one column or = half col.
umn weekly, shall furnish you with the names
Of all applicants fer situations whom 1 can re.
commend, giving particulars a. to the kind of
school for which they are suited; and the direc.
tors, ssoiag these names, can correspond with
such applicants as they see fit. Many persons
engage schools, AID do not apply for certificates
until few days before tho school is to com.
msncs, AID then, if they fall the directors do
not know whore to look for competent teachers;
hence many directors say to me that TINT appli.
| cant must have a certificate or they cannot make
out the requisite number of months to entitls
them to public money. l receive on an average
eight or ten letters per day, and when return
from the country on Saturdays l nd, every
week, letters from school directors asking for \
teacher for the following Monday. 1t would b.
much better If the directors could know what
teachers to write to, instead of writing to me
for no living man can answer all the let.ers thar
are received by me in proper time and attend to
the visiting of schools. There are many teach.
ers in the county who take no county paper;
! they say they are not particularly interested in
such papers Ind cannot afford it, | do not ask
this of yo~ for tho purpose of charging the cir.
aslation OF your paper, (though I presume it
will do So 1 have no other purpose than to
give the most possible information to school Off
GERS and teachers with the least expense. ard
believe this TO be the most effective way. If You
see fit to grant this reqaest you will please to
publish this letter in your next number aud
noxt week, and each week thereafter, | shall fur
nish you with list of teachers whom can re-.
commend requiring situations, and such other
articles as are of interest to the community at
large and schools in particular.
Respectfully,
GEO. s. WEDaEwooD,
County School Supt.