West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-06-26

I dive brain for the teacher of this county.
Bat this high standard Superintendent was
good IN M bad liberal ideas, and when
wrong was willing to correct mistakes
N0ich be did ir the latter part of his al p
mioislration, and he told the present in
cupbcnI just whore he had made the mis-
tske. You caI make the elimination
rigid but you m1st have ieac hers for the
I scho -
But "a little history of his associates,
sud hov they began to false the STANDARD
jast omaaatipg from the dark sgr, may
MT be oat Of place. The Superintendent
imbued with the University idea, and said
that there was not No. 1. teachers In
Preston county at 10 dollars pei month.
/ This was the first time that had ever
I learned that money was a ne cessary char
acierisIic Of good teaching qualities. My
teacher had always taught me to develJpe
the faculties OF the mind Ia order 10 do
good work In the school room. One of
the associates, az times, makes his home
IA Bruceton aud ne always examined on
reading. Here are few questions which
lac asked that the standard might be rails
od. An ,lyze poem Of Shakespear's
wrtinga
o; what material was Shakcsphear's
cloak NADER
Write what you know about Black Fd-
day.
A. this junoiuro a. w. Frederick was
pnO of the so call teachers aud when he
came down the catalogue of questions on
reading until he struck, what can you tell
about Black FridaY'-his manuscript read
i have lost my grip on that fellow cup
posing Black Friday 10 DO man, and
right here you'd suggest when Mr.
Frederick published tie manuscript Of
some Incompetent teacher that he In
cludo his own answer to Black Friday.
The examination OF teachers being con.
clnacd, the 5ard OF examiners had not
:hen reached the standard Of hiding or
running Oh TO Pennsylvania, buI met pub.
licly Ia the Court House, and began at
once doc,phcuBg manuscripts. This was
The age that Included map drawing.
something new 70 great many teachers.
One week was all the time that was re-
quiftd 10 deciph,r the manuscripts. The
monotonY was broken frequently by the
pasoirg Of the bottle. The associate ex-
amincrs on reading would change or make
some lille sdditioGs to some TEACHERS
map.
About three times was ali that they ex-
am,ued Incompetent teachers during one
fall. Aotto;high standard; three dollars
gone and no more 81 teacher al the
third examination than at the Il st.
And now, Sir. Squire, have given you
a little history Of ihe County Supeiiuten-
dents Why they have made themselves
unpopular with The people. The admiu-
istrstion Of Alr. Feather will MT do be-
canse every body g't oaIiihottoo. s.oA
a.p, Icy a. Sir. Bayles' will not q o because
"a vas imbn9,d with the temperance
idea and made nu report Of the schools TO
the State Superintendent such q policy
a. Alr. Hawthorne's will DOT do because
be believed tn the University idea and
revised the ftlndard BY examining the
teachers over two or three timer. Nc.
Frederick policy will not DO b,c .usu nc
lacked judgment. lacked discretion, tea
ehers had 10 buy part Of the questions.
because be destroyed teachers mcmoran.
DUN oookf,bccause be ex rcised userpa-
tion Of power 10 trying 20 compel the
teachers 90 sitsnd District Institutes
when the legislature made no such rro.
vision, because four-dtJhs Of the teachers
in ihis county are better teachers than
himself, because hs OVID language taught
that be did not deal squarely with The
teachers.
lie icld friend of mi1e when my
friend complained 90 bim nccanss he
(Frcderick) bad cut him Cms fr.cud) down
below 90 In TIE 81, of lsaobing whsu Mr..
Hawthorne bad always sivea hlm (my
fr.end) above 90 ou tho same branch,
thai Mf Hawthorne gave him below 90
10 iAe art of-ieachlrg.
infer from This that Mr. Frsderioh cut
some teachers down bccauso SIR Haw
thoFne thought be- lFrlderictJ vac not
the best iu some branches.
ST. Frederick be- done every thing. in
my judgement during hls two years Of
supeunieudeucy 10 give himself biz
name sbfosd. aspiring 20 bs State sup,uf
teudont.
lhaye carefully computed bis examine
tiou with some OF tho State sxaminatiens
oi che New England States whose scha,l
systems have bsen progressing over sinco
tbc landing Of the slty Flower. ns ere
more rigid, more compier simply TO catch
70 few Incompetent isacbo than that az
tue Stale examinations Of G. uuect.cut
and Massachusetts sbose school sy.t.r.rs
are over one hundred years olI.
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