Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-10-19
STATEMENT OF FACTS.
Editor News:

If you will allow me little space, I
will make statement of the facts, as
far as / know them, in regard to the
employment of the primary teacher at
this place, hoping to set at rest the
controversy in regard to the school,
Shortly after the opening of the
Whitwell public school there were 1OS
children enrolled in the primary de-
partment under the care of one teach
er. The directors thought it necessary
to add another teacher to the faculty
AS the people of Whitwell know, the
public school building has only three
rooms and three teachers were already
at work, and if another teacher should
be employed, place would have to be
secured for her to work. Some of the
people asked that the school be taught
in the northern part of ..Whitwell,
claiming that it would give them bet
ter convenience in cold weather if they
could have school close to their homes.
AS principal of the school here, /
was advised with in the matter, not as
to what teacher should be engaged but
as to the place the school should be
taught. There were two places under
consideration, one the Red Mems Hall,
which is about $50 yards from the pub
lie school building, and the other the
place in North Whitwen where Miss
Carlyon is now teaching.
Mr. Raulston, clerk of the School
Board, informed me that Miss Carlyon
was employed to teach and would be-
| gin ON the following Monday. l re-
ceived this information from Mr..
Raulston ON Friday and was instructed
by him to divide the children in the
primary department between Miss Car
lyon and the other primary teacher,
and that Miss Carlyon' S division would
be taught at the Hail. and that l would
be responsible for the management of
the entire school.
Mr.. Raulston was out Of town from
Saturday until Monday and asked me
to assist Mr.. Grayson, another member
of the School Board, to put the Hall in
order for Miss Carlyon to begin work
on Monday Accordingly, Mr.. Gray.
son and went to the Hall, where we
met one of the Trustees in charge who
told us he was ready to deliver the key.
A discussion arose there as to whet.
her it would not be best to have the
school in the northern part of town.
l thought, as do yet, that what the
people had asked for in the beginning
was best, that since Miss Carlyon' s
school could not be taught at the
school building, it would be better tc
have it where it now is, thereby max.
mig it nearer for many of the children
to get to school Mr.. Grayson instruc
ted me to say to Miss Carlyon that the
school would be deferred until Mr.
Raulston came home. AS well as re
member I said to Miss Carlyon OF
Monday morning when she came tx
the school, that the school was deferred
until the board settled at which plac,
it should be taught, to not be disheart
ened about as she was sure of the posi-
ton, to see the directors at once an(
! let them settle the matter. She saw
the directors that day and began t.
teach on the following day and an
informed that she is succeeding NIGEL.
with her school.
/ know of no way that Mr.. Rauls
ton could have known anything o
Miss Canyons going back home unit
he returned to town on Monday afte
, it occurred.
The above are the facts about VIII
! Miss Carlyon's school did not begin Of
{ Monday as was intended.
( I think most of the people here IN
8 derstand it and are perfectly Statistic
with the result l see no room for
/ controversy. The people here nee
: a good school. We teachers are the sci
e wants of all the people and are maxim
an effort to give them good schoo
We need the cooperation of all TIL
people, and am glad to say that u
to the present, we have had heart
4 support from them.
Very respectfully, H. E. TATE.