The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-08
THE RECENT CIRCULAR
OF .SUPT. HOLLOWAY,
Lake City Index.

state School Superintendent Hollo.
way is being criticised, in some quar-.
lers' on account of circular recently
sent out by him from Tallahassee
under date of July IA, as follows:
In the future it viii be necessary TO
file with the State Board of EdI,ca.
Ilon an application for state aid in
every instance, whether for the first
tlme or as a renewal for the same.
For your guidance in making these
applications, submit the following
regulation, which does not appear in
the standard course of study:
(a) That the board will adhere
strictly to the regulation that aid be
| gwen no school making an average
attendance CT less than fifty pupils.
I'D That state aid will be granted
no school unless the building in which
l. is taught is owned by the school
authorities in fee simple, and contains
at least two good recitation rooms.
(c) That state aid will not be
granted after July u, 1906. to any
school unless every teacher therein
holds legal and unexpired certificate
issued in Florida; the certificate of q
principal of a high school must be of
such grade as to show that he himself
IS qualified to teach any subject in the
nigh school course Of study; the prin-
cipal of a rural graded school must be
reuired TO hold at least a first-grade
| certificate
| Do not fail to urge your teachers to
attend the teachers summer training
schools, which began at Gainesville
ana Tallahassee last Monday. AS you
have already noticed, the one at
Gainesville is conducted for white
teachers, and the one at Tallahassee
for cOlored teachers.
The editor of the Index had a con-
versatiOn last week with Mr.. Hollo-
way and is able TO furnish some addi-
tlOnal information in reference to the
circular.
1t is not a new rule, having been
adopted by the State Board of Educa-
ton, on motion of Mr.. Sheets, on June
IL, 1903. But it was never enforced
Mr.. Holloway puts off for one year, or
until July l, 1906, the enforcement of
the law that principals of senior high
schools must hold a state certificate
And this is right Certainly the head
OF such an institution should be able
to prove that he is competent to in
stTuct in the courses prescribed to be
taught.
To illustrates: A firstgrade certif-
cate shows that the holder shall have
made total in no grade below sixty
per cent; and besides passing the
lower grades shall be proficient in
civil government, Algebra and physi-
cal geography. Whereas, the qualifica-
tons are that an applicant for a state
certificate shall have taught twenty
four months In all. eight months un-
der first grade certificate obtained
in this state" and "shall pass an ex
animation on geometry, trigonometry.
physics, zoology, botany, Latin, rhet-
oric. English literature, psychology.
and general history; and that the av-
erage must be not less than eighty
five, with nothing less than sixty per
cent A state certificate is valid FIVE
years This is the stale law-not a
rule of the superintendent.
1t is a perfectly reasonable require !
meDt, then. that a person Offering toi
teach a senior high school must con
form to the state law.
There are in Floriaa, at the present
time, thirty senior high schools and
thirty-seven teachers who hold state
certificates, so that, commercially |
speaking, the supply is equal to the
demand
superintendent Holloway is abso.
lutely right in his requirements, and
Florida is fortunate in having a man
who viii enforce the law and the i
rules as he finds them.