St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-24
THEY'RE AFTER MCGEE.
The Second Ward Objects to His
School Work.

The Second Ward Objects to His
School Work.
To tine Editor OF the Globe
A great deal of diSsa tisfaction is be-
ing expressed by citizens of the Second
ward over the management of the Van
Buren, school. We feel that the prin-
cipal. Charles McGhee, is not only in
competent, but that he does not work
for the best interests of our school. He
has proved this conclusively by not
recommending Miss Taylor for the
position which she has for years
so ably filled, fact which he
has himself heretofore acknowledged
in recommending her for promotion
year by year. If he has year by year
recommended any teacher whom he
deems incapable, then he has proven
himself untrue to his trust and should
lose his own position. If his judgment
is not keen enough to discern an incom-
petent teacher before he has advanced
her year by year from the third to the
eighth grade. then he has proven him.
self incompetent and should step aside,
or rather be pushed aside. to make room
for one less dull of comprehension.
But we as patrons of the school,
some of whom having had children
under Miss Taylor's charge for five
years, do not feel that we can afford to
lose teacher of such untlring energy
and zeal, and one in whom the pupils of
the school have entire confidence, in
order either to please the caprice of a
man who, in Withholding his recommen-
dation, has proven himself to be either
unjust or incompetent, or to make room
FOR some other person. We feel that as
parents and taxpayers that we have a
right to he heard, and that our earnest
petitions should be respected.
we. feel that we can well afford to
lose the petty despot whose chief care,
1t would seem, is to maintain himself in
his position and draw monthly upon the
taxpayers for an amount for which we
feel he has not rendered an equivalent.
1t is well-known fact that hereto
fore his modes of discipline have been
detrimental to the best interests of our
pupils. The citizens of the Second
ward will not maintain a slugger in the
person of the principal of their school,
nor will they longer submit to have
their children under the influence of
man whose example can be proven to
be DerniciouS, and who can not com
mand the respect of even the pupils of
the school. All the efforts OF his teach
erS to maintain a respectful feeling for
him among the children is of no avail
where they are offset by such an eX-
ample as he has made of himself on
various occasions.
We demand principal who will eX-
erclSe enough restraint over himself
to treat the patrons of the school civllly.
we demand principal who will not al
low our school to degenerate into a mob
ana yet be able to maintain order with
out reSOrting to brute force. We Insist
upon the school law being obeyed by
the principal as well as by the other
employees of the board of education.
we, Ill free America, recognize no con-
dltl0nS under which tyranny and wrong
can be protected, and the rights and in
terests of the commonwealth trampled
under foot because such tyranny and
wrong exist in the person of a man
clothed with little brief authority.
If one at the head of affairs. whether
clvll or military, proves himself untrue
TO MS trust, it is imperative that he be
displaced, for by virtue Of the power
vested III him he is enabled to do more
harm than whole force under him.
10 say that man must be maintained
simply because lie is at the head of af-
1alrs, irrespective OF his ability to be at
the head of such affairs-tO say that be-
cause he is in position to do so he will
be allowed to override the principles
of justice-is to be out of sympathy
with the statement-"Cesar had his
Brutus, Charles l. his Cromwell" To
say that we must not resist because
this man is principal of The school is
equivalent to saying that the Declara-
ton of Independence should never have
been passed.
If Charles McGee, or any one connect
ed with the school system. vaiuIy i'm
AGNES that the spirit of independence,
the sacred rights of liberty and justice
are less dear to the people of Dayton's
bluff in 1892 than they were to those
who i'll times past fought that the same
principles might be maintained, they
are laboring under great mistake.
PARENTS.