The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-07-06
Reply 10 A. a q.

\ :" JooV iast issue. In oruer TO DO so
intslligibly must quote the greater part, IL not
oil, OF his article. His first paragraph is as
| follows:
mt. Editor please give in your next paper
sno law In reatin TO employing teachers iu the
Iree schools. II is thought by some that the
| school Commissioner has the right TO appoint
ana the trustees to employ any one not hold
| ing q certificate, whenever in their opinion the
necessity for school exists. Understand this
mas oeen done in several instances, and to the
INJURY, Is said. Of teachers holding certificates
from the Examining Board"
| Inc burden OF his complaint as expressed in
the above paragraph is. that teachers have been
| allowed to teach without certificates This is
true' and the only strange thing about it is that
| a. d. : has just found it out. It occurs in this
way: Only two examinations are allowed dur
ing 'he year-o1e in January and the other in
July. Teachers find it very difficult sometimes,
10 attend the January examination, on account
OF oad roads, bad weather or high water. In
rev cases Of this kind have allowed the teacher
70 teaoh the Spring session without certificate,
with the understanding that he will get no nav
unless he gets certificate at the July examiua.
tion, and will be paid only according to the
certihcate he may get at that time. IL. there
{{Sff fafilhea u Al ha own and possible
impossible for the public interests to suffer,
because the children get the teaching, and the
teacher takes the chances for his pay. Sup
pose did not pursue this course suppose
would refuse to allow him to teach the result
would be to deprive that community of school
during the very best part of the scholastic year
simply for the sake of being considered nice
and eyact md ms vvb; he AL.
children would be suffering for teaching and
wasting precious time. Mr.. ga. B. Co." with all
his stock of moral ideas. can't convince me that
such course rs I have last mentioned would
be either wise or profitable.
Again, il sometimes happens that community
does not organize and select teasher until after
the examination has passed, and that community
may select q teacher who had not, until selected,
thought OF teaching. end consequently, has no
certificate. In such cnse would allow him
to teach until the next examination, and have
done so in q few cases-ths teacher ery4aking the
risk hercnbefore mentioned. Now how can the
community suffer! 1t is simply the old rule Of
trying an article before buying. In the ordinary
business transactions Of life, it is considered ON
advantage TO have the privilege of making test
before investing our money, and am unable to
understand why it should not be SO in the mat
ter Of employing teachers.
Again, do not hesitate 10 issue o certificate
to teacher without any examination when I
nm we'll satisfied that he is ,alifed for the posi-.
tion. A formal examination is not the only way
Of judging teacher, and in fact, IL Is often the
least satisfactory, and whenever become salts
fed otherwise that q teacher Is qualified issue
q certificate 10 him. know this is not a popu.
lar way Of doing, and opens the door for nerv.
+ous fault finders to raise tho cry Of "partialy''
and "favoritism" and oil such horrible names
but an in the habit Of ador ting my own
course and Of pursuing IL without regard to pop.
ularity or other consequences. will add,
however, that very few certificates, compare.
lively, are issued without formal examination.
This may serve as o sort Of restorative for the
nerves Of such rs are about TO despair of the
republic. "a. D. C.'s" next paragraph is as
follows:
'In q conversation recently with gentl oman
living in Santuc township he told me that his
wife had good school last year, holding O
certificate from the examining board and en-
ployed by the trustees, that at the second ses.
sion lady not having q certificate set up q
oCuOot ucuE MS WIG. WITHOUT tn6 consent OF the
trustees, md got her pay from Maj. Townsend,
Notwithstanding the trustees refused to endorse
her illegal clams."
Now this is oil true except the allegative that
that "wife" had "good" school, (she having
had an average daily attendance of only nine
pupils during the whole Of her Session) and
except, also. the allegation that the second lady
had no certificate (she having had one at the
time, and had held one and taught in that
neighborhood for several previous years), and
except, als1. the alegatiu that she set up school
without the consent Of the trustees (she having
been expressly employed by them,) and except,
also, the base insinnaion that she sarrepttiously
obtained the signatures of the trustees TO her
paper in order to get her pay: the trustees who
employed her having promptly approved her
papers at the close of her school, and they came
to my hands in the proper condition. From
this the public may judge of the number of base
falsehoods contained in the paragraph above
quoted, and how recklessy "a. d. CO. hurls his
| vile ISLANDERS at the character Of better people,
utterly regardless Of the truth or falsity of his
charges. IA. b. Cs." next paragraph reads as
| follows:
"My informant said there was money enough
| TO run one school eight or ten months, but the
funds were divided between the two, 10 the In.
jury of the entire school, and In violation, as he
| thought, Of the law. He said the matter WAS
before the Grand jury in March but that the
| foreman said they had no Jurisdiction In spch
| violations Of law"
Ten months /! just think Of that Or even
eight monthsl "a. B. c. has unintentionaily
passed high compliment upon me. know he
did not intend TO do it, and II will hurt him
when he finds II out. Why, the average free
school term at the place he speaks Of has not