Morris tribune., 1905-06-24

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only give her chance.
"The teacher that would especially
speak to you about IS the one. whit
always fails at the examination, who
does not care whether she passes the
examination or not as long as she
gets permit" who does not seek te
to promote and advance the educa-
tional interests of her pupils but sim
pers and sighs over her hard lot:
and constantly longs for pay day to
roll around; the one who having re-
ceived the limited number of "per-
mits" allowed her according to law,
gets as mad as setting hen soaked
in water tank,at the County Super
intendent because he will not issue
another to her. The one who will
procure if possible permit made out
upon second grape certificate blank
and present herself to you as a
second grade teacher and hire out as
such to teach your school. The one
who after receiving her notice of fail
ure will go and deliberately hire out
to teach your school without any GER
tifcate at all, and deceive you per-
haps by saying that she had forgot
ten her certificate and left it at home.
We had several cases of this kind
this spring. The one who after get
ting turned down because she had no
certificate, will go into another ad-
joining county and begin term of
school with neither credentials from
the County Superintendent of this
county nor the county in which she
is employed, The one who will pro-
cure blank from some state normal
school, ill it in to suit herself and
try to to pass it on the County Sup
erintendent for a certificate. The
one who takes the examination in
another county and receiving a
notice of failure there. changes it
so that it will show the proper pas
sing and then presents it to the Coun-
ty Superintendent Of this county and
claims the certificate upon the
strength of it. Gentlemen, such
teacher must be awful green or else
she thinks the County Superintend
ent is. I do not know which, and I
don't dare to ask them for fear it was
the latter, and do hate to be praised
to my face, therefore I kept still.
"These are all cases of teachers in
this county who have attempted to
contract for and teach school under
false pretenses could name each
and every one of them but out of
respect for the schools will refrain
from doing so. In some instances I
am sorry to say they succeeded in
their farce thru and obtain
ing schools, tho with but on excep-
ton thru no dilatoriness on the part
Of the Superintendent.
II must say the young lady with
The normal standing did succeed in
fooling me and obtained permit
upon the strength of it.
"Fellow school officers, it is this
class of teachers that | want you to
help me eradicate from the pay roll
Of Stevens County teachers.
"A teacher of the first class is
worth her weight in gold; you can
not pay her too much, but a teacher
of the second class is dear at any
price and is bad example of charac-
ter for US to put up as type for our
little folks to model after and should
cot be considered in the least. We
have six weeks summer school this
summer expressly for the benefit Of
The teachers of the first class, and
following directly upon the heels of
hat the Morris High School has
Normal department added to it ex-
oressly for the benefit of tle same
class. The merits of this Prof.
Smyser will explain to you in his talk
his afternoon.
"We have in the county many third
grade or permit teachers who are
lrawing a salary Of $40 per month
md in some instances SIS a month
While in many instances cur second
grade teachers cannot get but $50 a
month and our first grades $50 a
month. Under such circumstances
here is not much object but
here is absolutely no object at all in
teacher exerting herself to give you
better service and better instruction