The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-03-31
"soME OF THEM"

that not without effect, and a little
more personal. 1t was children's day
at our church--we preached from
the text "First seek We the kingdom
of God" &C., &c. Under the first
head, discussing the "First thing to
do" we said that the foundation of
a noble life was the religion Of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Here we drift
ed into an Incidental discussion of
First prineiples'-Then we said,
that in order to be an accurate
scholar, that we must understand
"First principles" That it was too
generally thought among us, that
any body who could read and write
and translate few Greek or Latin
sentences could teach. That many
among us we're teaching from favor
itism and that many who are teach
ing have no special liking, calling,
or aptitude for teaching, but that
they are just teaching for what
money they can make out of the
business. That many of them did
not, themselves, comprehend the
First principles" That all such,
We would break up if we had fol-
lowing, Now, if these, good friends,
who carried the information, had
knownF nglis1 Grammar,they would
have known the difference between
"Many of the public school teach
ers" and "The publ school teach
ers of Savannah" superintendent
Baker assured us that if we could
point out the incompetent ones that
he would expel them. We would
politely inform him, that he fnd
out the reporters OF this aff,ir, it
they are teachers, he has clear
case of incompetency. Let the ex-
pulsion follow in rapid succession
and we should not wondtr to see
our streets graced ouce more by
two lovely teachers gIorlously
emancipated from the lrksome and
over matched labors of the school
'oom. We say, however, in self
defense that We did NOT refer to al y
particular place, nor did we exclude
any place-We spoke in general
We have no objection, however, to
The application some have made.
We suppose they understood what
they we're doing-We, ourselves,
made no application. The applica
ton is theirs because they are the
application. Superintendent Baker
said he was going to send two t
his male teachers after us-Up to
this writing they have not come
aud we shall save our thunder until
then, when we will have a lively
time We have no objection TO this
when the public good is concerned
There is "a side to this Church and
State matter that we did present
that the inIormers left our. We
think it hu, t worst than that about
which they complained; but. we
lave heard hOjhing about that. We
are of the decided opinion that the
patrons should have their say AS to
who teach their children. That
there is perfect satisfaction we have
our doubts. We are a patron of a
public school and have been for
years. We have taught public
school for years and can present
testimonials from some of the best
men in the State--Since this is true
and since we have nothing against
any body teacher or other wise, we
think we might be sworn in as a
juror. superintendent Baker ex-
tended us an invitation to the next
teachers examination stating that he
would arrange the questions--That
is, we believe, his official duty, but
as we are his invited guest, we
think we might be allowed to ask a
few questions. If annual examines
tons are had, it might be we'll too,
to take into consideration the accnr-
acy of the taught, as there may be
some truth in the saying Like
priest, like people" We say again
that We had no particular Public
school teachers" in our mind. But
since propping is Indicative OF
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