The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS
BY Supt. P. N. Allison.

BY supt. P. N. Allison.
So many inquiries are coming ii
concerning the new certificate Law
that have decided to give through
these notes the opinion of the At
torney General which is as follows:
County Certificates issued prior t.
January 1, 1912, are not subject te
renewal after that date, but are valid
only for the life of the certificate,
since at that date section 10942 R. S.
1909 ceases to be a law and there is
thereafter no authority for the re.
newal of such certificates, except that
section 1O942, Session Acts 1911, pro.
vides that any teacher who has had
five years. experience in teaching
and is employed at the time of the
taking effect of this act shall have his
or her county certificate renewed an
unlimited number of times on condi-
ton that said teacher continues in the
same position Gin employment of the
same boarO and is faithful in the
performance of his or her profession
al duties.
"All county certificates issued prior
to January 1, 1912, are valid only in
the county in which issued and can
not be endorsed in other counties.
"Under Session Acts, 1911, County
Superintendent have authority to
endorse only second grade certificates,
issued after January /, 1912. Section
lO943.
GAN grades on a valid third grade
certificate may be transferred to a
second grade certificate. Section
1O943.
"Under Session Acts, 1911, County
Superintendent have authority to en-
dorse only second grade certificates,
issued after January /, 1912. Section
1O943.
"All grades on valid third grade
certificate may be transferred to a
second grade certificate. Section
1O943.
"All scholastic grades for a first
grade certificate must be certified
from the office of the State Superin-
tendent of Schools. Grades from
second or third grade cannot be
transferred to first grade certificate
unless the papers for said certificates
were graded by the State Superin-
tendent or were made in an Approx
ed Summer School.
According to section lO947 all
grades made on papers graded by
the State..Superintendent are valid in
any county in any state, when prop
erly certified from the office of the
State Superintendent of Schools.
In the Session Acts, 1911, there is
no provision for the transfer of grades
from a certificate issued prior to JAN
uary /, 1912, to one issued after that
date"
In regard to the professional duties
the State Superintendent has ruled
that this shall consist of all Reading
Circle work, attendance at all teach
err meetings held and the reading of
good school journals.
The above is not what the school
people of the state were asking for
but one thing commendable about it
is that it Will not lower the standard
Of qualification for certificate and the
best teachers will be pleased with
that feature Of it at least.
Most Of our schools are taken and
each and every one should help to
to make their school the very best
possible. It matters not who your
board has employed, they may not
have the teacher you wanted most,
but they have a teacher and that
teacher will and should be yours for
the best school possible; so now in
stead of pulling back and putting in
the way,s get in line and push for
good school and you will have bet
ter one than by any other way you
can try.
The Reading Circle books for 1911
and 1912 have been received and
am quite sure we have two books
worth the time and trouble of all
teachers to master. One is on Peda-
gogy and is "How to Study and
Teaching How to Study" the other
is on reading Reading in Public
Schools. An outline is furnished
with each book and teachers who are
not in Summer School will do we'll to