The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-10-31
ROcHOI.I. OyER-RULED.
The superintendent Beaten I'm
the Appeal From his
DeClelOn.

i It viii be remembered that County
superintendent Of Schools Rocholl re-
fused certificates toseSeral teschers- two
OF whom. Miss Lena Turk and Bernard
Reiter. appealed to the state superin-
rendent. WV. Penderaaat. and Mr..
Rochep was spmmoned before the state
department. te show cause why the
teachers aloud not receive Certificates.
Mr.. Rocholl made the broad claim that
the result OF the examinations were not
such as to warrant him in issuing cerri-
ficates. At the hearing Mr.. Rocholl
interposed technical objections that the
appeal was not taken at the right mo-
ment. His objections were over-ruled
and the cases came up on their merits.
The examination papers which Mr.. Ro-
choll had marked do wn to point which
would not warrant certificates, were
submitted to Supt. Mackenstosh Of
Washington county for examination and
he decided that they were sufficient to
entitle the applicants to teach IN the
public schools of the state, whereupon
State Superintendent Pendergast issued
certificates to Miss Turk and Mr.. Reiter.
Very naturally Mr.. Rocholl feels ag-
grieved, and IN no pleasant frame of
mind toward the state Department. In
an interview in the Journal, Press he
says among many other things:
Eyes, I have returned from the inquisi-'
ton, in which consider that Las well
as numerous teachers in Stearns county
were unjustly dealt with. The rules and
regulations governing the applicants for
certificates in this county were adopted
by me when first assumed the office of
county superintendent and were well
known to the persons taking the exami.
nations. have adopted certain
system Of markings. and the statutes
give the county superintendent the right
and these markings are final These
passing marks established by me are
from examples set by other states where
there are good schools and good schol-
arship and for the best interests of the
schools of this county. 1t is further
more absolutely necessary to have this
high standard OF markings. The
whole controversy hinges on this point:
that Superintendent Pendergast told
County Superintendent Macintosh OF
Washington county, who made the sec
ond examination OF the papers, to ex-
anime the papers as though the appli-
cants were to teach in his own county.
This was wrong. His standard of
excellence may not be as high as required
by me, and he should have examined the
papers simply on their merits. still
maintain that Mr.. Reiter and Miss Turk
arc not entitled to second grade certiti-
Gates. - Mr.. Macintosh gave
credits where they were not deserved and
claim was utterly unfit to re-examine
these papers. have known the gentle
man for good manv years. He is
NOuitSOuSS PiScASduS SShCiSAouS anu
know he must have had private instruc-
tions from some source or other in acting
in the way he did. am willing to sub
NIT these papers to any one for re-
examination and am confident they will
say that was right IN my position.
have full reason to believe that the
department was baised in the proceed
ings. as our relations heretofore have
been very cordial, and ! have always
recognized the unwrit.en law that an
inferior should show a proper respect
tor his superior, and have shown due
respectfor State Superintendent Fender
CAST and would say nothin in any way
derogatory to him or his department"