The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-05-27

House rent fuel, grocery bills and the
hundred extra expenses that their
position requires, all swallow up Their
wages, before their term is out.
Visiting teachers from others citis
are to be entertained, is itcreditable to
a community that their teachers be
shabby in appearance or pinched in
their homes.
Is it desirable that the teacher
should have to spend the warmer
months of vacation in toll to exc out
scanty income?
Would it not be better policy to in
crease the salaries. Would not the
schools profit by it ia the increased
usefulness of the teacher. Depend
upon it for every dollar of increase
on the salary, the schools would have
much more "than value received"
There is another phase of the subject
to which / wish to call attention. 1t
is a lamentable fact that teachers aret
not to day occupying the social posi-
ton that is their right.
In our republican America the
fact that lady earns her own living,
should be no reason why an inferior
social position should be forced upon
her. The aristocracy of talent, refine
ment and cultivation, does no always
give the teacher his true position.
Those who by inheritance or a fortu
nate combination of circumstances
are pecuniarily above the need of toll
often treat the teacher in a sort of pat
ronizing, polite way, that is i.sel
more intolerable to proud spirit thar
direct insult.
But some one will say; ga teacheI
has no right to be proud spirit"
Why not, | pray you?
Cultivated and refined they mus
be, for are they not models for tn
children and in daily intercourse witt
them? And yet, torsooth, they mus
be humble hangers-on, lingering abou
the outskirts of society
In the name of my fellow teachers
resent the thought.
A community should tax
, PRIDE AND PLEASURE IN ITS TEACHER
: should give them earnest sympath,
: and support in their work. The worl
of training the children lie the join
J work of parent and teacher, and no,
"can two walk together unless they b
agreed" !
} l would that a live coal from off til
heavenly altar might touch my lip
, with convincing earnestness and power
? that / might rouse men snd women +
| a realizing sense of the Importance 0
cooperating with the teachers and no
: destroying their influence by coldnes
and indifference.
Select only worthy teachers an
, then do all that is possible to strength
en- their influence. Children ar
, wonderfully acute, and detect an in
. consistency at once. They are told t
e be respectful to the teacher, but man
. ma is not careful to be respectful bel
. self.and often speaks slightingly of tn
: teachers dress or manners finds faul
if her darling is corrected and in
. dozen small ways shows her disregar
. of the teacher. The child wonder
over the problem, he must respect tn
teacher, but mamma does not. UI
consciously, he imbibes the idea {
> superiority, and the teachers infuenc
! is injured, but alas, too, the child
J. injured as well, and the parent hs
done it. A lesson has been given ths
= may mar whole life.
A wise parent will find time I
q VISIT HIS CH1LD's SCHOOL.
= and make the teacher feel that he
a in sympathy with the work.
d Nothing helps teacher 80 much g
l. an expression of approval from th
d parent it Ia like sunshine in shad
l. place"
= 10 that blessed Utopia of th
r teachers dreams, all the ills that b
l. set bis pathway will have vanished
Q co-worker with the parent, tegethe
o they will lead the young immorts
o safely over the quicksands of youth
d up to Heaven and God.
M. E. WOOD.
Sedalia, May 10, 1884.