The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-04-17
SCHOOL KxAMINFRs.
An Over Lettar to tho Probats Judgs.

An Open Letter to the Probate Judge.
To the Hon. George B. Gardner,
Probate Judge Of Highland county,
Ohio.
As the time draws near, in which
you viii be called upon to exercise
your appointing power in the case OF
q School Examiner for Highland
county, I take the liberty Of calling
your attention to one or two points
in the School Laws Of Ohio, which,
in my opinion, have not had due con
sideration from your worthy prede-
eessors.
Since I have already been acous-
ed Of acting in the interests of a
cJiq1se, or from personal motives, al
low me to assure you that I have
been influenced by no one-that I
merely express my own sentiments,
and that I harbor ''naliee toward
none" but have sincerely at heart
the welfare of the schools of our
county.
Bearing this in mind, I hope you
viii candidly consider the following
clause from the Act Of 1873, q can
not give the section, not having the
law at handy After speaking of The
appointment, it continues as follows /:
provided, that no person shall
be appointed School Examiner who,
as principal or teacher, is connected
with, or interested in, any Normal
School for the special education or
training Of persons for teachers.
Now, I claim that the summer
term of the Hillsboro High School
Department Of the Hillsboro Union
Schools is, under the spirit Of the
law, a Normal School
The fact that many Of the teachers
are educated there, quite a number
Of them being now in attendance,)
and that the Principal and teachers
recommend It to the teachers Of the
county, as being better for them than
the best Normal School, is, I think,
sufficient to establish my claim.
Then, if, in the opinion Of the trainers
Of the law, it was improper for one
memberof the Board to be interested
in a Normal School, do you think it
wise or proper to continue Board
of which all the members are inter
ested in school, which rests under
serious suspicious of being a Nor
NAL School? I leave the matter
with you.
But the law further provides that
the Examiners shall arrange the
times and places Of holding the ez-
aminations in such a manner as shall, !
in their opinion, best accommodate
the teachers Of the county. Now |
this is discretionary with them, but
if your opinion does not coincide
with theirs, or if you think they
study to accommodate themselves,
rather than the teachers, I hold it to
be your duty to appoint as Ezamin-
er one, who, in your opinion, will be
more accommodating. And, as we
have a village of no mean dimensions
in the northeastern part Of the eoun-
ty, which is, I think, fairly emitted to
at least tl0o of the eighteen annual
for examination, I would
respectfully suggest that an Ezamin
sr be appointed from that quarter Of
the county.
Since I have shown my good taltn Z
and confidence in my opinions by 9
this public avowal of them, l hope
you viii give them the attention they !
deserve, Cbs that little or nuch) and /
hat you will not be preiudiced 3
against them by persons less dis
Interested than the writer, and who S
iare not make their opinions public. s
In theabsence of information from q
he teachers Of the county, I take It i
o be your duty to use your own \
in appointing, but, on &C v
.ount of my relation to the teachers
f the county, I felt called upon to o
ay these few words.
I am not a candidate for the place; :
have no one to recommend, nor do
condemn any one but the pres =
mt Board rests under a continual
uspieion, which cannot be removed E
nder existing circumstances, Sc
Very Respectfully,
DAVID BAILEY,
Editor Teachers Column.
Highland, o., April 4, 1879.
Tits thought now, that the Legis-
ture will do nothing on the School
upervision question this session.