The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27

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/ and higher mathematics and all the olegieS to
| the teacher of primary grades? Does II make a
| primary teacher better teacher because she
| holds frst-grade certlheatef second or
| thirdgrade teacher under the present grading
system might be better teacher.
DIR. Coffey in the Review says: The fact that
you hold. tirSt-grade certificate doesn't mean
that you are qualified to fill Just any position to
which that certificate legally entities you 1t
may be that third-grade teacher could be easily
found who could ill the position for which you
are an applicant much better than you. So,
don't be discouraged If another should be pre-
ferred to you. There are some qualifications
which some people never possess and which
neither certificate nor diploma may confer"
On the other hand. not all teachers holding
hrst-grade certificates are competent as teachers
| of subjects properly classed as high school or
college subjects
DR.. Coffey asks these very pertinent questions:
Do you honestly regard your certificate as a
recognition of excellent scholarship or as
chance reward for a fortnight's examining? Do
you really understand the subjects WHICH your
certificate authorizes you to teach?
Notwithstanding the fact that you have a
diploma and possibly a degree, can you teach
subjects of which you have the merest smatter
ing? Can you teach subjects which you have
never studied? Can you teach advanced subjects
where you and others know that the course
taken by you purely elementary?'
Again quoting from DR.: Coffey, here are some
of the questions which arise in selecting teach
ers: Does either the certificate or diploma
carry with it personality, character. common
sense backbone? Does either OF them carry
with II H6dIHGSSy COURTESY
politeness2 Does either of them carry with it
kindness, morality, self sacrifice, devotion and
conservation"
In selecting our teachers let.us bear in mind
that not every trained teacher or teacher hold
ing frst-grade certificate is the best teacher
for your position. Today, the certificate is not
always the brand of the, teacher. Supt. Harris
says, in his biennial report: "A ffrst-grade GER
tihcate in some parishes does not stand for any
more than a third-grade certificate in other
parishes"
believe with the board that we should en-
| ploy as competent teachers in the rural schools
and especially the one-room schools as we en-
| ploy in the graded or town schools. This is
recognized as sonnd educational doctrine every
where, but who among us is able to carry out
| this doctrine? 1t has never been accomplished
| i'll this or in any other parish. This problem
confronts not only this but every parish in the
state and will never be solved until the teachers
| consent to accept work in the country. think
| that statistics will show remarkably small per
cent of tirstgrade frst-class trained teachers in
| the rural shoots. About ferty-nine out of fifty
| applications desire work in graded town
schools even when the same salary is offered in
| the one-room school. Big salaries or salaries
the equal of those paid in the towns will not Sc
| cure for the oneroom schools the best teachers.
| Prof. Brown in his report to Supt Harris says:
| The graded schools three times out Of four will
have better teachers than the one-room schools
Supt. Harris says: Generally speaking. teach
| ers who have spent years and money perfecting
| their education cannot be induced to accept
positions in isolated country districts with all
| their attendant discomforts and inconvenience.
| There are in the state 1917 Normal graduates en-
| ployed in the public schools and only 81 are
| teaching in one-room schools do not believe
| that effective effort can be made to induce our
| trained teachers to accept work in one-reom
country schools It should therefore be our
| purpose to eliminate the one-room school where
ever possible and to establish in the country
graded schools
In the recommendations which follow have
done the best could with what experience
have had with teachers, with my knowledge of
conditions here and elsewhere and with the
salaries at command.
| 1t is my earnest desire to continue to advance
the schools of the parish and with your hearty
co. operation and assistance feel that shall
have as efficient and competent body of teach
ers in the parish in the future as we have had in
| the past.
If we can do this, in the face of conditions to-
| day, then we shall indeed have cause to be
proud of our achievement.
Donaldsonville High SCHOOL,. Holiday Du-
puy, graduate Jefferson college Il. S. degree, ex-
perienced principal; first assistant, Miss Estell
| Hyman, Winthrop Normal graduate, A. j. de-
| gree, experienced; second assistant Miss Marie
| D. Hemke, graduate Wesleyan College, Mo-. Pr.
B. degree, experienced; third assistant, manual
| training, athletics, Martin Cnrtiss. graduate
/ Olivet ollege. experienced; seventh grade, Miss
| Mary Wallace graduate Edward MCGEE Col
/ lege, student Randolph Macon 'Women's Col
| lege, Va. experienced; fifth and sixth grade
4 Miss Nellie Craig, graduate Ruston Industrial
experienced fifth grade Miss Fannie Blaekman
/ Normal graduate experienced; fourth grade
/ Mss Margaret Fairly. graduate Mississippi
/ S. sdical College, experienced; fifth grade. Miss
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