Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-12
The New Law Concerning Teachers
Certificates.

Teachers will be glad to know that the
Richards bill, abolishing to some extent
the constant Denomination for certifi-
Gates. was passed by the Legislature
finally. 1t took effect from the date of
its passage, and is now, therefore, the
law. True, it has been doctored till Its
meaning is hard to get at. Lawmakers,
like artists, usually touch and retouch
their work till they paint out the best
part. But such as it got to be finally,
under the retouching process, the bill
passed. Here it is:
"SECTIoN ! Be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
Section 40s1 of the Revised Statutes, as
amended February 12 1880, and Section
4OS4 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, be
amended so as to read as follows:
SECTION 40Sl. That each person who
applies to the Board for examination
shall pay to the Clerk a fee of fifty cents.
The Board may grant certificates for
one, two, three, five, and ten years,
which shall be- signed by the President
and attested by the Clerk, and shall be
valid within the district, and such GER
tificates issued for five and ten years, il
IN part on account of consecutive years
of teaching and experience, which shall
be so stated in the certificate, shall be re-
movable without reexamination, at the
discretion of the examining Board, and
On the production Of satisfactory evi-
dence that q person to whom certificate
has been issued is inefficient, or guilty of
immoral or improper conduct, the Board
may revoke the certificate and discharge
such person from employment as teacher
in the district; but such teacher shall be
entitled to pay for services to the time of
such discharge, and the word teacher
shall be held to include Superintendent
Of Schools.
''SEC. 1854. The provisions of this
chapter relating to Boards of Examiners
for city districts of the first class be ap-
plicable to such Boards for city districts
OF the second class, and village districts
having population not less than twenty
five hundred, except that such Boards
shall consist of three members, and ex-
cept, also, that the Examiners fees shall
be disposed of, and statements filed with
the County Auditor. as provided in Sec
tion 40T2, in all such districts not covered
by the provisions of Section 4093.
Sec. 2. That Section 4OS1 of the Re
ViSed Statutes, as amended by an act to
amend Sec. 4O91, passed February 12,
1880, and Section 4O84 of the Revised
Statutes of Ohio be and the same are
hereby repealed, and this act shall take
effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
"THoS. A. Cowgirl,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
''R. G. RICHARDS,
President pro tenn. of the Senate. -
There may be individuals who are able
to fathom exactly the meaning of this
law without much trouble. But they
are not common. The law has not been
improved by its amendments, certainly
not in wording and in punctuation.
AS nearly as the meaning may be fish
ed out, teacher in a city school who
has certificate for five or ten years, may
have it renewed without re-examination
under certain conditions. If her certifi-
cate for five or ten years was given her
partly on account of 'consecutive years
Of teaching and experience" then the
Board of Examiners may, if it chooses
to do so, renew her certificate without a
re-examination. But it must be stated in
the former certificate that it was granted
partly on account Of experience in teach
ing.