Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-07-03
Caroline Chapel.

SpeeiaI 10 he Mas.
Well, kind editors, as sold Joe
is still among the living, and matters
of importance are happening most
every day and be feels very anxious
on some matters that are going the
rounds, be thought he would pencil a
few thoughts from his way of looking
at some things. The one thing that
seems the most paramount on his mind
at this crisis is pertaining to our pub
! lie schools We certainly are or
should all be very much interested in
matters of education, for the time has
come when a boy or girl is turned
ont in this cold world to battl for
their own selves without an education,
that they are so heavily shackled with
| ignorance, that they are almost per-
| feet failure, and are as a rule no use
or benefit to this country, only to be-
come ''slaves" to those that have been
more favorably blessed with the great
opportunities and privileges that ave
| been given them, or in other words,
that they have grasped, while they
had the opportunities We have no
excuse now to grow up in ignorance
as the big-hearted men of our great
state have looked over the great fields
stocked with the poor of our land, and
considered their poverty and their
meager opportunities to acquire the
knowledge that they were entitled to,
or deserved They lay great and
successful plans to bring us up out of
this quagmile of ignorance, and place
us on more successful and higher
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gasp the privilege and opportunities
as we shouldH l say NAY, verify"
/ say it is burning shame to see the
great masses of the people of this
country Especially the people of Ma
rion county, so little concerned and so
careless about such an important mat.
ter as the education of our children.
Almost every Legislature of our great
state enacts laws for the purpose of
lettering our state and county in the
way of education. They legislate more
money to be used for the education of
the poor, and how unappreciative we
are for their great love and sympathy
for us.
1t will be only very short time I'M
til our country schools open up, the
first Monday in August, and we DO
hope that all parents and patrons of
our schools will properly assert them
selves and discharge their whole du-
ties as parents and patrons and make
Out schools grand success. Parents,
do you know that the failures that we
suffer every year. you are principally
responsible for If you dom do your
duty in the way of encouraging your
at home you need not expect
them to succeed. 1t leaves the teach
ers powerless. You lay solid, firm
and then the teachers will
have something steadfast to build up
on. Notice children who succeed and
you will find children that have had |
the proper training at home. First,
start your children right and then it |
will be but little trouble to keep it |
right, and bring the child up in the |
way it should go.
On the other hand, see child that |
is unruly, disobedient and contrary in |
school, and follow that child home, |
and you will soon find the cause. Pa |
rents, for your children's sake and |
that they may prove an honor to you
in your old days, and more that they |
may be able to call you blessed, train
hem right Do not lay bad examples
Tor your children to follow and then i
,urse and abuse the teachers when
hey have to repremand them in
,chool for the very things You have i'm
.ulcated and distilled into their very
ives and into their little innocent
hearts or minds. Oh, what a great
mistake we do sometimes make and
hen throw the blame on some one
lse. Oh, what sad mistake.
Well, guess have said enough on