Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-09-24
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A Card, signed "A Patron, yflt
night as well have been singeA "A
trustee" or, "For Trustees ~ 1t
must be the only patron OF the
grammar grade of our High School
who didn't petition for the appoint
ment If a certain teacher, or sign
and deliver to the Trustees a pro-
test against their action in not APP
pointing the teacher asked for by
them. ,
We are sorry that the readers OF
the Recorder cannot have all the
facts, but space will not permit.
The following are the main facts;
A majority of patrons petluoned
for a certain teacher; the trustees
refused to appoint him and APP
pointed another. Then all of these
same patrons, but four, (and they
stood on and by the petition) and
all but one of the other patrons
then known to belong to the gram
mar grade of the two schools con-
solidated, Ga total of twenty-one
out of twenty-five patrons on pa
peri signed awritten protest against
the action of the Trustees and fur
Their prayed them to rescind their
former order of appointment and
give the patrong their choice. This,
like their first petition, was ignor-
ed. :.
No! MOI! The agitation and dis
satisfaction was with only II to q
out of %, all who were in it at all
That's very little! The Patron,
saws 1T has about run its course. "
Yes, that's true, because the stat
ute of 80 days limitation expired
before the people could get their
complaint before the Division Su-
perintendent Or a Board of Appeal,
else we should have seen how the
agitation had runits course.
"Stand together and be fair and
equitable, etc." Why, to be sure!
Out of %, no fewer than II to q
did stand together and plead fo1
fairness and equity, and they got
it, too. Did they?
"a certain high officer refused to
aid the Trustees in carrying out the
plans of the High School" (Anoth-
er shifting responsibility Why
didn't Patron" further assert
that said high officer opposed the
High School and all its plans from
the beginning? The latter would
have been as true of him as the
former. Why he didn't tell the
uhole truth may be apparent to all
"Boost profession or get on pension
roll" The little word Enry ex-
plains that statement.
Much more could be said and
should be told, but it couldn't
ween Ephram from his idols.
We all squirm under criticism,
but do not think that when public
officials spurn and ignore the wish
es and requests of so great a major
ity of people directly interested,
they invite criticism, and the best
policy is to let them have it and
they generally get it.
That the action of our Trustees
is displeasing to very great ma
jority of the patrons and friends of
our High School, whose money and
personal effort helped TO build the
house; whose patronage made a
school last year and must make it
this year and many years to come
if made at all, is a fact that is
known or should be known by ev-
erybody in Crabbottom. And if
the Trustees or any one else doubts
or denies this, all they need do to
be convinced is to call a meeting of
said patrons and friends and give
them an opportunity to express
their sentiments publicly. Will
they do it, and submit to an over
whelming majority? w GU d n It
this be fair and equitable as "Pa-
iron" makes it, not only to Trus-
tees and teachers appointed but al
so to every body concerned? Will
they set a day soon?
Now, Nephew is done, unless cir
cumstances positively demand more.
Let Uncle Joe continue to write.
UNCLE JOE's NEPHEW.