The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-06-12
Wants Resident Teachers
In Public Schools. Letter From
State Superintendent.
OUT OFSTATE MAN GIVEN RICH Berth
"Writes Like Farm Hand" RepuIar
Grand Jury Will Consider AS.
sault Case at Covington Seri.
GUS Case at Plaquemine.


Superintendent of Education T. n
Harris has issued the following let
ter to all parish superintendent oi
education In the State. the contents
of which will be OF interest to ali
teachers in the State, as well as .tO
the patrons and supporters of the
schools:
Information has reached me
through the public press and from 9TH
er sources of the appointment to good
high school positions paying from
$1,000 to $4,000 year Of men liv-
ing outside Of Louisiana.
I'm this connection l would Ike
to call attention to the fact that
there are at present about 1000
white teachers attending the nine
weeks summer schools, and it does
not seem to me that these teachers,
who are already with us, have work.
ed among us and established their
worth, and who are willing to spend
their time and money to add to their
education by attending the summer
schools every year, ought to be gi-
ven the best position in the State;
and certainly it can not be said that
thoroughly competent men for every
high school principalship in the
State can not be found among these
1000 teachers who are attending the
summer schools.
Il don't wish to discourage the
bringing in of teachers from other
States, but l do wish to encourage
very emphatically system which
will give the best positions to tea
chers who are already at work with
US and who have made good. think
that the teachers who do not attend
the summer schools, and who live in
other States, should be given posi-
tions in our public schools, but they
should be given positions after the
best places the different parishes
have to offer have heen Sc
cured by the faithful teachers
who have becom acclimated
and who have demonstrated their
ability in our schools, and who are
willing to add to their worth every
year by systematic, hard work in
the summer schools
I am just in receipt of a letter
from a gentleman from another
State, who has recently been elected
principal of one of our best high
schools, and who spelled Baton
Rouge with two is and writes like
a farm hand. Certainly better man
for that place could have been found
among the teachers who are attend
ing the summer schools at Baton
Rouge, New Orleans, Natchitoches,
Ruston and Lafayette. I am of the
opinion that the superintendent erred
very gravely when he went out of
the State to fill this desirable posi-
tion. Teachers from other States,
should be given the schools that are
left after our best teachers have
been placed. After they have be-
come one of us, and have demon
strated their ability, then they
should be classed as Louisiana teach l
ers and be placed on an equal foot l
Ing with the rest OF the teachers of 1
the State with reference to the best t
paying positions. {
Notwithstanding the fact that the '
summer schools this year are to run
Tor nine weeks, already nearly 1000 n
white teachers have enrolled, and
,hink 1t Is safe to say that when the +
i've schools are in operation and the c
highest point of enrolment reached, 4
We shall see fully $500 white teach v
IT'S in the summer schools. I hope Y
t Is not necessary to urge upon the a
and school boards G.
VI the State the Importance Of show S
ng every appreciation of this splen- D
lid spirit on the part of the tea
hers by giving the best places and
highest salaries to these teachers at
ending the summer schools" II