The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-01-16
THE TRIALS OF THE TEACHER.

pedagogues difficulties was before the
School Board On Tuesday last. The
appeal was from the Liberty Grove
School, away up on Basin Run, in the
Sixth District, in which Miss Biddle
holds dominion, and the complainant a
mother whose young hopeful had been
MAUL-treated, she alleged, by the second
in command, a young lady teacher who
had seen some service and had some
experience in going for" unruly boys.
The principal, Miss Biddle, was pre-
vented from attending school by sick
| ness, and the chief command devolvcd
on her assistant who was ordered by
the superior to hold the position at all
hazards, and knock 'em if the urchins
refused to submit to the customary dis
cipline. One of the bows, named Ora
ham, who, the evidence went to show,
had graduated at home in the school of
profanity, persisted, the teacher testified,
in disturbing the school, and when she
finally event for him." he considered
the moment had arrived which
"Best befit the temper and become the
time
to give an exhibition of his nursery
education, and he observed to the young
lady that he thought she was rather
dark canine of the feminine gender
The young commander, who had won
her spurs on the battle field, and was
no MALTA captain or carpet knight to
turn pale and faint at the sight of blood,
charged Immediately, and selling the
young insurgent by the throat, with a
vigorous and dexterous shake brought
him to the floor, when she administered
an earnest of what the future may have
in store, if he forgets to regard with due
respect the rights Of others, His mother
testified that the prints of the teachers
nails, or some other sharp instrument,
were in her boys throat, and his shirt
was bloody from the wounds received
in dangerous proximity to the :jugu!ar.
After a patient hearing of the testi-
monv, the Board passed resolution
which will be found among the minutes
of the meeting. Such quarrels are not
little disgraceful, and petty chickering's
are often brought before the School
Board for settlement, which reflect the
low moral and intellectual status of the
parties who initiate the trouble "A
want of intelligence and proper APP
probation of the rights of others on the
part of trustees, we have noticed, largely
contribute to these school disturbances.
There are some trustees of schools, we
are informed, who can neither read nor
write. This fact, if fact it is, is almost
incredible. The most intelligent. yet
moderate and firm men, should be select
ed to fill these important positions.
Men who will give moral support and
assistance to the teachers, and see that
justice is done to the pupils, who should
not be i'll treated, but compelled to obey
the rules of the school and submit to
strict discipline, MANY parents are very
weak and prone to let feeling get the
better of Judgment, when the child goes
home with plausible complaint of
having been abused. At such critical
times an intelligent judgment and firm
ness on the part of trustees is of the
highest importance If they are men
whose intelligence and integrity inspire
respect and confidence in the patrons
and teachers any threatened disturb
ance will be quelled, and the morals of
the school elevated but on the con-
trarv, if the trustees, or part Of them,
are illiterate and coarse, with the crudes,
notions of education, and the require
ments of school, they inspire DO re-
spect in pupils or parents, and anarchy
in place of discipline reigns in the
school, with chickering's frequent in the
neighborhood