Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-21
SENTIMENT OF COUNTY SUPER.
INrENpENrs DIVIDED OVER
MANIFOLD DUTIES.
MANUAL AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE
TRAINING NOW REQUIRED
Majority Of Opinion That instruction
Will Not 30 Diffieult-Many Hard
Problems in Connection With Ad.
n,inistration Of Tuition Law-Annuai
Session in Dss Moines.

| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 21.-"The effort
| seems to be to turn over to the young
girls we send out to teach in the coun-
| try schools everything that all the rest
of us make a failure Of; it is an i'm
position on these girl teachers
The speaker was the county super
intendent Of Adair county. She was
referring to the law relating to teach .
ing agriculture, domestic science and
| manual training in all of the schools
of the state. She was applauded heart
| lily by the county superintendent con-
vention when she severely scored the
legislature for this one new law.
! She took the ground that it was i'm
possible that this should ever be done
| by the teachers we have. THE days
are not long enough nor the years long
enough for the teachers to do every
! thing that every one may want done, "
she said: Il believe that the law is
a good one; but I also believe that
agriculture should be taught by man
who knows something about it; and
domestic science by woman with
knowledge of chemistry and the sci
ence of art I believe we should go
before the next legislature and demand
that an appropriation be made for the
employment in every county of q spe-
cial teacher in each of these branches
who will go from school to school and
| give this instruction in a proper way"
View Not Generally Shared.
| While this view was evidently shared
| by many, it was softened down later
and a number of speakers suggested
| that it was not going to be a very
difficult matter to comply with the law.
| One superintendent said that in his
| opinion the law was more suggestive
| than otherwise and it was not expected
| it would be complied with literally at
all points, but rather that it would
point the way and the educators would
gradually grow into it.
Another suggested that the state
college prepare leaflets giving a few
elementary lessons in agriculture for
the use of these country schools But
| it was generally agreed a hard problem
had been put up to the rural school
teachers.
The county superintendent at their
convention also agreed there were
cOui0 lldAu III III IAAS dPpiiSdIiOi1
of the tuition law.
1t was explained, however, that the
new law makes an absolute authority
with the department of public instruc-
ton to classify the schools and to say
what is and what is not high school,
so that question will be got out of the
J way. It was also explained that there
could be no way of compelling any
schools to accept tuition pupils and ev-
cry school can fix it's own standard for
entrance to its schools.
Another new feature of the law is
that rural school boards can not block
The tuition law by refusing to grant
the certifica ties. The parent makes out
the certificate as to where the pupil
lives and the county superintendent
certifies to scholarship.
The new law will cut out the So
called high schools that are giving one
year of high school work in charge Of
teachers in other grades. Encourage
ment is to be given the two-year high
school courses.
In regard to the new minimum wage
law for teachers the superintendent
pointed out great many difficulties in
the way of applying this and agreed
it might result for time in shortage
of teachers.