Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-12-24

That many of our teachers are almost
wholly unqualified to teach, doubtless
would be admitted without argument,
vet there is not one, | dare say, but
who is rendering far greater service
to the people Of the county than many
of our officers and lawyers who are
sucking $500 to $1,000 so graciously
from the teat Of the county treasury
and from the pockets of the people:
and on the basis of morals as qualifi.
cation, dare say, that there is not
one so incompetent as some of our
officers, who are making much more
than the teachers drawing the highest
salary in the county.
Such a condition seems to put a pre-
MUM upon rascalty, incompetence,
and immoralty, and lower the dignity
of the professions of those who labor
to uplift mankind To Gehenna with
such a condition! let us right about
Count 5. OUR TRAINING LEADS
TO NOTHING.
This endictment is made here not
because it has any immediate reference
to the subject in hand except in so far
that, on account of its gravity, il may
be an incentive to some 10 study the
importance of this papers contention.
When Is is considered that all our
boys and girls are leaving the school
before they reach the ninth grade or
finish the secondary course it should
cause us to reflect and ask, "What
have our schools prepared OF fitted our
boys and girls for" Nothing leads to
craftsmanship. No incentive is given
to our boys TO learn to DO something
J useful, The head, and sometimes the
heart-get q little training, but the
hand is taught absolutely nothing. No
trade; no manual training; no tools;
no machinery. no laboratory nothing
in fact except Johnny get 10 study
in that jogafy2H And Johnnie does
MT see any use, and perhaps, for
Johnnie, there isn't, but if you would
Egive him tools under a real teacher,
who knows boys, or test tube in
& Laboratory. Johnnie would in all pro
: Bability do and that with great ioy,
Il without any injunction served on him.
: Hence, if all our boys will not take an
: academic training, we might give
: them incentive to, become skilled, laHnr.
ers, product which America is sspely
; IN need Of; OF else encouragement to
RI Become Intelligent. industrious, and
, successfuh farmers. So we may CON
8 clude- this endiotnent against our
t schools with the observation that none
! Iofi our schools seeks TO discover any
. tendency the boy or girl may have,
which if could DO discovered and di4
Q rooted would to, a, large extent solve
g the problem of non-attsndance.
Q We may pertinently ask, after we
Q have discovered some mechanical, an
f chitectural or othen tendencies, how
9 shall we develop this,in our boy As
> ittis, there is nothing but insists. be.
d tween adaptations and opportunity
:, 30 while, weare educating. would il
/. not be we'll to consider that, schools
e onght' tu'deyeaop thatnatural. ten danoy
: in boys and girls--a love for GROW
I'D MEETINGS and MAKING things
d Count g.. OUR, COUNTY COURT
III rs EInHEnt WHOLLY INGOMBET
Emu OR WHOLLY INDIFFERENT
AL AS, TOUCHING, Its, DUTY WITH
r. REFERENCE. To- OUR SCHOOLS.
l. "When the money derived from, tn.
/. school fundland taUes imposed by thu
rs State on the counties shall not be sufi
II ficientt to keep up a, public school TO-
f. FIVE months in the year in. the schoo
n districts in the county, the CounE
1t CourtGshall levNa an additional tax. suf
l. ticient forrthis purpose or. shall submit
3, the propositiomtn Ja vote off the people
Of and may levy a, tax to prolong tn
i'd school beyond, the. five months, said tai
rs to be levied on all property polls ant
rs privileges Liable 10 taxatim, but shall
ut not exceed the entire state tax ~
10 Chapt. 1O1, Acts 1897, sec 40
I'd Whether this body has done. il
0, duty with rafsrence to- our soh0al
is not matter of its own conscianR
O. to judge fortif, is generally conGeed Q
ed ar touching, it's functions with refer
be eIsce to the educational activity an
1e- some othen important matters, It's pow
a. Iads exceeds its conscience
hes Low politics has played an imGpOrr
sir ant part in ihe past history of this III
We representative aggregation thin
nd absolutely detrimental to all worth
lis and honest effort br genenaA educ'
d. tional uslafting. And, too, this bod
No, OF repassentativesgYl has evident
no been aalenable to- influences for tV
Ia decades which have thwarted all incel
mt tive i'm educational matters OF interes
"a 1t having been composed AT times
ng some grossly ignorant men and irr
lot sponsables, i.e... if a proper conceptiC
;he OF the ethics governing ones offici
ere responsibility be the standard
the which we must Judge.
ter If as much effort had been put fo
rk. ward in putting thru appropriations
avs measures touching educational int
md sests, as there have been efforts p
hin forth in railroading thru the court a
OBJ preparations, benefactions TO alien pJ