The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-09-06
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS


some Comments and Explanations on
| the Subject.
The result of the work of the board Of
school examinations is the occasion for
considerable comment. inquiry and even
dissatisfaction from some quarters. Out
OF eighty applicants for certificates to
teach school forty-seven were successful,
which results in sore disappointment to
a number of young ladies and gentle
men whose aspirations seem to greatly
exceed their qualifications. We under.
| stand that number of those who failed
to get certificates had schools al
ready engaged tor the coming
year. For such VIC are truly sorry. but
still their present disappointment will
be their future gain, for were they TO be
permitted TO go on and teach now with
the meager qualifications many of them
possess, the upward ascent would neces.
sarily be slow, tedious and unsstisfAc-
tory. If q teacher would be successful
in his work, he must thoroughly pre-
pare himself. Those who were refused
certificates at the late exam
inatiOn should not be discour-
aged, but go To work again with re-
doubled energy and overcome the OBJ
stacles which now stand in the way OF
securing the necessary guarantee of .
competent instructor.
For the good Uf the cause Of educa-
ton, too, we believe the board Of exam
lneTs did very wise thing in refusing
to grant certificates to many applicants
at this time. Young, inexperienced
teachers, for the purpose of getting
start" viii undertake TO teach 9
school for n consideration much
lower than first-class in
structor can afford TO give his or her
services, aad thus competent teachers
are crowded to the vail and the cause Of
education suffers. Greenwood county,
awakening TO the importance Of this
maEtcr, adopted more rigid examine
ti''ns this year, and thus expunged the
pc CT grade Of teachers So complete
was the eradication that that county
npS advertises for fifly competent IN
81, u tors outside OF her own borders.
Tir result of this measure, though work.
inr considerable hardship all round
f" the present, will prove very
sanitary IN the end, and this will be the
(. KIP rience of Lyon county.
Tue question has been asked Us in
re-. ard TO the opportunities for beng
ex mined during the year, to which We
would reply that examinations are held
quarterly, the first being In August
usually, and the others the first week in
December. March and Nay, respectively.
The is in conflict with the ideas Of
some who have supposed that examlna-
tons are held monthly.
There is another matter, Too, which
seems not 70 be generally understood, and
that is that the examinations for county
ana city teachers are separate. and bear
no relation one to the other. This
statement win probably set tbs minds
Of some ct ease who hsVe supposed that
because the names Of the young teach
ers, whom the school board lately
elected to poaitions in the city schools.
did not appear in the late list Of appii-
cauts before the county examiners, had
failed and would be unable to I'll the
positions to which they were appointed.
The examinations for city teachers Will
take place next week, and there Is no
doubt but that all who have been desig-
mated to teach win be awarded eertif-
Gates, tor none are without the requisite |
accomplishments to Ill the positions for |
which they have been desigpsted.