Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-07-22
TEACHERS'ARE
DISCUSSED
County School Patron Dis
cusses Relative Merits
of Teachers
MARRIED OR SINGLE?
Judgment Of Correspondent
Is Opposed to Married
Women in Schools

use some of your valuable space in
expressing an opinion that has been
confined so long in my breast that it
hurts. Now, I want to be understood
woman suffrage, and have the kind
liest feeling possible for every woman
have ever met-from my rev cred
mother to my beloved wife.
But, do you know, that as much
as l revere the memory of my mother.
and as much as l love my wife,
do not believe either of them would
have made good school teacher, and
this brings me to my mutton:
I am farmer, living within 20
miles of Aberdeen, have fairly good
farm, and several children. My
youth was spent where school facili-
ties were not good, and I have felt
through life that l was handicapped
to a certain extent for that reason.
Consequently, I am interested in pro-
curing an education for my children,
and l am fairly posted as to the laws
of Washington which mean to give
them what l was deprived of.
Still. I have kick, and it is a dis
agreeable one to make, nothing on
earth but the future welfare of my
children would have induced this ex-
preston. My kick is on a woman
teacher. That listens hard, doesn't
it? But, believe me-, l have no OBJ
lection to lady teachers-if they are
competent. On the contrary, I be-
lieve in a woman having an equal
show with men in every walk of life.
When I find one engaged in the strug-
gle for which men are more Justify
fitted, I would rather bestow a lift
than a knock.
But, our case seems to call for
remedy, and this kick appears to be
due from me. l live within 20 miles
Of Aberdeen, have family of chill
dren in whom I have the natural
fatherly pride, and we have a school
district able to give my children
full eighth grade education-but they
don't get it, Studying why, l am re-
luctantly led to the conclusion that
the fault must rest with the teacher
l say reluctantly for the reason that
1 have studied mine and the other
children attending this school with
the most kindly disposition toward
the teacher.
A close examination into the cause
that so few of the pupils of our school
graduated from the eighth grade
last year-and I am ashamed to tell
how few their were-led me to look
for the cause, and I think l have
found it. And, do you know, it's foun-
dation lies in good nature? That's
funny, tint it? But it's true just the
same.
Let me explain: We have a school
board of three good-natured men who
employ woman teacher who should
be busy at home. The district pays
$75 a month, and the woman needs
the money. There you have it in a
nutshell. The woman's husband has
ranch in the neighborhood, and she
is an excellent woman-but a poor
teacher-and we all dislike to kick.
am seeking this publicity for the
purpose of attracting the attention Of
the county superintendent, in the
hope that he will make a rule that
will relieve our good-natured board
from the necessity of dismissing this
estimable-but misfit-lady from our
school, or course, am speaking for
but one country school district, but.
do you know, I think that an inves-
tigation would show others.
COUNTRY.