The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-05-05
After 1910 All Who Are Not
Graduates of Designated
Institutions May Be Re
quired to Get State
Certificates.
Superintendent Deane Has
Suggested That Provision
Be Made By Which
State Board of Edu- .
cation May Recog-
nize Certain
Schools.
Bridgeport Training School
Should Be Specifically
Recognized in Proposed
Law, Is View of Attorney
John j. Culilnan, Member
of Board of Education.

What is to be the status of the
Bridgeport Training School after 1910?
This question is now agitating Bridge
port educators, who are scrutiniz1ng
with some care a bill now pending in
the General Assembly. Under the
terms of this BILL which promises to
become law, every teacher who en-
tiers upon the occupation of teaching
after 1910 must have a State certifi-
cate. unless graduated from a recos-
.nized college, or from CONNECTICUT
State Normal School
The Bridgeport Training school
would not fall within either designa-
stion. 1t is not a recognized college.
Neither is it a State Normal School
1t is felt. however, that the pill
should in specific terms include the
Bridgeport Training School in the same
class as State Normal Schools, for the
reason that it's standards are as high
and it's preparation as exact1ng as the
standards and the demands of the
State schools.
The view that the bill should make
specific provision for the Training
School was expressed by Attorney
John J. Cullinan, a member of the
Board of Education, this morning. He
said:
my attention has but recently been
called to this bill, and I have not had
the opportunity to make myself famil-
Aa
intended to raise the standard of
teachers in the State, by insuring the
employment of those whose equipment
and ability is known and approved.
This is a faudable purpose in ITSELF
but nothing should be enacted in the
way of legislation that will impair the
standing of our Training School, AS
i remember the facts, this city was
NAL School and the offer was refused.
Some thought that the State School
would bring about an encrOachment
of the State which might amount in
authority of the city in matters of
education. At any rate, the city de-
termined to maintain its own Training
School, and has since done so, relieving
the State of all the expense attached
to such an institution.
81 presume that the city of Bridge
port supports an institution that is as
complete and effective as the Normal
Schools kept at the charge of the state.
This being admitted, it would seem
that our Normal School should be spe
officially recognized in any legislation
that may be enacted, and it's graduates
should stand upon the same level as
the graduates of the State Schools. 1t
certainly would be an injustice to the
future teachers of Bridgeport to say
to them that they probably will not be
permitted to teach in our schools I'M
less they are graduates of our Train
ing School, and at the same time be
Obliged to inform them that at the con-
clusion of their course in the Training
School they will not be recognized out
side of Bridgeport as persons quail
fled, by the fact of the diploma they
have received, to teach
Supt.. Charles w. Deane said that he
was familiar with the proposed law.
He said: "I have suggested that the
law should be so framed that the State
Board of Education may grant its GER
tificate to any graduate of any insti-
tuition which in its standards conforms
to the standards established by the
board"
Mr.. Deane expressed the further
opinion that the Bridgeport Training
School is at least on a par with the
State Normal Schools.