The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-03-21
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS

II
AND TEACHER!
By Supt p. n. Allison.
Some question as to who Shout
make the term report where a boar
divides the term and employs tw
teachers to teach the school has arisen
The law is very plain on the matte
and says the last teacher shall max
the report for the entire term. TIL
teacher who teaches the first part O
term, as some term it, does not hav
to make term report. Only fou
schools have changed teachers thi
year and none are having the sprin.
vacation that was one time so com
mon. That all this is better there cal
be no question.
Miss Maud Martin reports the fol
lowing pupils as spelling all the
words in a two weeks contest: Harry
McChesney, Hazel Caldwell, Doris
Fail, Herald Bitner, Bonnie Downey,
Elsie and Rosie Scrogan and Leslie
Bitner. They recently held supper
and used the proceeds in adding to
the library and other equipment.
They are making a good showing and
keeping up the good record estab-
lished last year.
Mr.. j. A. Borland of Compton dis
trict took out new slate blackboard
for their school last week. do not
know how it was secured but suspect
it was brought about by the energies
of their progressive teacher, Miss
Stella Ritchey. They are adding to
their equipment year by year and will
soon have fine building so far as
equipment goes.
Patty has put in new single desk
and improved their school building
in general. They recently put in
new slate blackboard. They are not
going to be last or least either.
In the recent teachers examination
as we'll as many others, teachers no
doubt said things in answering ques.
tons that they can hardly believe
and sometimes wonder
why they did not get better grades.
The answers given are all that the
person grading can 60 by and it is
not always satisfactory. In civil
government in the last examination
the sixth question is: How does
bill become a law'in Missouri. One
:eacheranswereditas follows: "When
4 bill becomes law in Missouri,
dill hast to be read six times. They
lead it once and pick out the most
things and then they vote
IN it and then it hast to be read
gain and then disguised and then
cad again and then it is disguised
anne way again and that makes six
mes."
There is no question in my mind
ut this teacher was thinking of some
hing very different from the real
uestion and its answer but the an
wer given is the one to be graded.
low l do not know who the applicant
that gave the answer and never ex-
ect to know and this is only given
nth hope that it will prove bene-
t to those who are trying this work.
In pedagogy the eighth question
'as as follows: Describe your ideal
ural teacher?" One teacher answer
d in this was: can idol school teach
S is one that dosen't make any at
,mpt to show the pupils the value of
cientific farming and of the import
nee it is coming to be and the study
plants and trees and the different
inds of wood They Just teach what
in the books and that is about all. !"
ow it is evident this teacher was
'riting on a very different sort of
'acher to the one ask for in the ques-
on. Had they had their attention
llled to the matter they would no
oubt given in very different ans
er.
These are only two instances and
any more might be given that are
far wrong but l merely wished to
III the attention of teachers to some
these things with hope of help
g them. Rest assured that the
ames of those who wrote these ans
ers will never be known not even
me.