Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-06-25

territorial superintendent of schools to re
mark that we had the best teachers an
schools in Dakota. So with the asslstnn
territorial superintendent, and so did
gentleman remark after visiting on,
schools who was formerly superint tcnden
Of the schools for many years in a larg'
city in the state OF Ohio. Upon thes,
principles we have conducted our schools
and we have secured good teachers cor
rcspon ling with the salaries paid them
with two or three exceptions when ".
have been disappointed in procuring sucl
as we had anticipated. And the fact that
our citizens have not complained but on
the contrary have expressed themselves
satisfied with our schools, and have re-
elected the old members of the board has
led me to believe that our course mel
their approval and that they desired our
schools conducted on the same principles
hereafter until such time as they shal
otherwise direct. Although our taxes
have been and are still heavy, take II
that the salaries We are paying are salts
factory to them so long as Wa secure the
class and grade Of teachers for which We
fixed tho salaries, and that they are not
willing to pay first class salaries to second
or third class teachers. We inaugurated
system Of examinations whereby the
applicants were required to pass salts
factory examination, the standard oi
which was intended to be higher than
that adopted for the examination of
teachers Tor the rural districts
The above named members of the
teachers committee IN a sort Of an ON
nibus report which they made including
therein the recommendation OF lady as
teacher along with their unfinished re-
port on rules, sc, which report was not
understood by some Of the members was
acted upon and was adopted. Now as to
the lady which the above named mem
bers of the teachers committee recon-
mended have naught to say as lady,
for snch she IS, and is conceded to be
such by all who know her, but she is not
a professional teacher in my opinion,
neither does she CLAIM: to be. She holds
2nd class certificate from the county
superintendent, and she has had but lit
tie experience and that IN an ungraded
school, never having taught IN graded
school, and consequently If employed at
all should receive corresponding salary,
SUCH as is paid in the rural districts,
which is from $35 to $40.
, The above members OF the teachers'
committee in recommending the lady
which tLey did wholly ignored the appli-
cations of several teachers who state in
their applications that they are graduates
and have receive special Instructions III
the art of teaching, besides have had sew.
eral years experience in some of the hes
schools Of the country. But for reasons
best known to themselves they chose tc
recommend the lady they did. In my
"incoherent loquaoity' stated to the
board that we IN adopting the report
acted inconsistentIy in this, that we had
nominated a lady that did not come un
her want OF experience if not OF scholar
ship and special instruction, SC, at best
she was but End grade teacher for rural
districts, at salary Of 5000 per year, and
that we should do either one thing or Tic
other If we employed her We should
pay her corresponding salary, say SAC
per month. or if we paid $50, to then
employ corresponding teacher, and that
would willingly CO. operate with them in
employing End or 3d rate teachers at CO,
responding prices, when ! was satisfied
that the citizens Of jamestown desired &C
return to that condition of schools. One
of the members of the committee or
teachers desired to have the committee
consider the application of one ot the ap.
pllcants, but the others refused so to do
and they decided to recommend the lady
they did without the knowledge of the
other member, until just before they
made their omnibus report, rs he has
since informed me, and yet they would
by inference in their said article have the
public think that he acted with them IL
making their recommendation, which
recoml.. .endation was made with full
knowledge that the lady whom they re-
commended has been in such poor healtl
that when teaching small school in the
country had to he absent from 1t some
considerable time on account thereof.
1t is AN uncontrovertibe fact that dur
ing the past two years there has Eeeu a
different times persistent effort to pu
this lady and her sister into our schools
by some of the members and attendants
of MIR. Fannlng's church IN the interest
of the lady whom the above member
have recommended.
The tact that the lady so recommended
as well as her sisters, her mother, ih'
above named members, and those wh'
have pressed the claims Of the SAID ladies
being either pastor, members or regula
attendants of Mr.. Fanning's church, anC
the luther unwarrantable action of ,ht
committee in recommending the lady II
the face of q resolution on file that nt
teacher shall be employed who has no
had experience IN teaching in addition &c
the other necessary and requisite quail fl
cations leads me to the belief that undue
church influence induced Mr.. Tanning tt
the recommendation he did through SYM
pathy SC, and thrt or some other les:
commendable motive induced MIR. Ours
tine TO make it. In my judgment TIT
board will do injustice TO themselves
their constituents, the other teachers ant
the children whose education has beer
committed to our care unless they recon
sider their action taken at our last meet
ing and either select teacher CORES
pondmg with the salary, or salary cor