The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-10-14


,atled, keeping the more successfii
ones until chey have become realt::
serviceable, then let them go be
,ause the trustees and the people are
,nyilling to pay fer good teachi!':.
at par value. Some places boast thai
heir schools are the gateway to tnt
promotion Of their teachers. This
nay be credit to the school, an
d;screair to the people. It is.
not creditable. is the people ar,
simply letting efficient teachers pas:
out from their schools in eXchanss
FOR crude inexperience, because the
latter is cleap.
A few town school boards are
given TO the indefensible habit o.
advertising every year for apDl''
cants for every position in the school,
when the board does not intend u
elect single new teacher. Tn:
king who marched his army up thH
hill, then marched it down again.
did no more childish thing than thesl
boards do. The thing IS not only
:rdesensible, but it IS hurtful to tbs
school, unjust to the teachers, aIr
dishonest to possible applicants
What meaning does such advertise
ment convey to every teacher IN tha,
school, no matter how eulclent o.
faithful she may be? When the
teachers ask for its meaning, they are
told that it is only a matter Q:
form, and that they need not be cor'
cerned. Great big grown business
men playing like children! A-1e'
:! what about the innocent strange
who make bona hde applications i
Ianswer 70 what they suppose is
Ibons fde advertisement, only to o1
Uniformed that it is mere form
What teacher with any regard To-
ethics would apply for one OF theSi
IDlaces, il he knew that no Tacanc!
! existed and that the incumbent eS
pected reelection? IS the boar;
plaving a game in diplomacy? Doe
it intend to see if it can secure bet
ter teachers, but if not, to re-elec
the incumbents? Such game woult
he dishonorable. If school boar
[ wishes to change teachers for an
:, legitimate reason, it has a perfec
!; legal and moral right to do so. Bu
/, the change should b made in
: manly straightforward manner. Le
: the board frankly tell the teachc
} not to ask for reelection. declare
: vacancy, then advertise for appllca
: -ions-tf that is the best way t
i secure teachers.
: Teachers themselves must bea
S their part of the responsibility TO
3 50 many changes. There are son!
Y teachers VINO ought not to exper
= any school to keep them longer tba
Y one year. The captious (sonetime
n niscalled spirited), the eccentri
/. the frivolous, the giddy, and IL
G ignorant ones may expect to 10?
!, about like driftwood. linen there ar
0 some teachers who have an incur
s able mania for becoming birds
, passage. I once knew teacher t
y resign her work to go elsewhere
: the ground that she had been
s her present position three year
y They apply every time they hear
d 2 vacancy, and il they hear OF
s vacancy, they ask when the ne!
d Ione is to be. They tell you Ver
), frankly that they are worth gres
6 deal more than they are gettln:
= and that they are prostituting .l
j profession when they work for
little. Once more, there is tn;
Il foxy diplomat Of teacher who seei
!. a place in March, accepts it in Jun
5. and holds it until about two weea
S before the school is to open, the
4 telegraphs the board that she he
S accepted elsewhere Cat two dollar
E a month more salary. She cal
. this resigning; in law and commo
;. sense 1t is q violation Of coDtrac
) Such conduct under ordinary circun
j stances is reprehensible, and who'll
y unworthy Of an honest ma2 or w
. man.
William H. Hand.
/, University OF South Carolina.