Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-12
School Supervisors Report,

they like but as they can. That
time has come to your Supervis-
or now and he has finished the
last lap of the long ride among
the rural schools of Morgan
county for this year. Previous
agreements make it necessary
for me to leave the field of su-
pervision and again take up work
in the school room as a teacher
in the Normal Department of the
West Liberty High School
To say that the two months
experience in the rural schools
has given me more inspiration in
my favorite work Of teaching
would be putting it mildly in
deed, for | now see the need of
more efficient work in the great
field of human preparation. l
also note that too many teachers
look too long at the financial side
Of this great work and thus fail
to see the great good that may
be wrought in the life Of some
boy or girl under his care. We
Aare indeed having great awak-
ening in the work of the rural
schools, but we still see room for
greater efforts in helping our
mountain boys and girls to get
ready to face the great problems
of life that lie before them for
their solution. They are making
long strides in the direction of
helping themselves by working
out their own salvation. 4"
Many of them go to the rural
school until somewhat advanced
and then if their finances be suf-
fcient they leave their home for
more efficient training and go to
the nearest schools where they
can get more inspiration and
help. Hence the need of a strong
Home school with the best teach
ers obtainable. The law makes
it obligatory on each county to
create and maintain a county
fiigh-School and.the Educational
Board of Morgan county has
started on the right road but
have stopped short of the much
needed goal. They partially pro,
vided for one of these better
schools for the rural@bo and
} girls, but have not provided suf-
ficient financial aid to make it as
good as it should be for the great
work needed to be done in edu.
} cational lines in Morgan county,
More funds should be provided,
better equipment secured, more
room to house the school and {
good boarding hall and dormit9
ry for the accommodation Of III
children who long for more
knowledge and come to the Boun
ty High School, as their right, Il
get it. <SR
We want to enlist, notpnly th'
Educational Board, but the whole
=. county in this great wTk. fTht
,, farmers, lawyers, d&torS anC
, preachers. Our county paper il
already interested AID working
q necessarily for thesFbettermen
of our schools. We,d5 not speal
! through our COUNTY baper az
often and as loudly as We shoulC
! in the working up of interest il
our children's educational devel
opment. A good, strong articl,
each week for the betterment o.
8 the children's chances, and ;
3 wider reading of the county pa
, per would in a short time, in my
4 judgment, work a revolution il
: our mountain 'copnty's schools
: Let's join hands in this grea
work and fight for the little one'
who are victims of circumstance
over which they have no control
5 Let US leave off differences of o
, pinion if the firing the differenc,
0 will .injure ithe cause, MorC
concerted ACTION is what is need
: ed and less argument, Whel
| we were asked to take the fel,
as Supervisor we did not stop t,
!, argue whether it would be pro
A ductive Of good results, but W
/. got in the saddle and began t.
n hunt good results and fount
: them, We found mountain boy
and girls who, by hard work
Y had succeeded in securing a foot
d boldfhigher up and were doini
thelbest they could to lift u
Itheir fellows, and we foun
4 great pleasure in helping ther