St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-11-21
SCHOOL FACULTY RE
PLIES TO CRITICISM OF
THEIR NON.PARTICl.
PATTON IN FAIR,

Slidell, La, Nov. II, 1914.
Editor st. Tammany Farmer:
AS you gave publicity, last week,
to an attack upon our school by the
Slidell American kindly do us jus
tice by the republication OF our re-
ply to the said uncalled for attack,
which appeared in the American Of
last week.
slidell, La, Nov. II, 1914.
Editor The American:
In your paper Of last week, we
notice your editorial commenting on
the failure Of slidell high school not
taking part in the parish fair in Gov
ington.
Among other things, you state,
Last year they took part and were
highly successful Further on you
say, There were hard feelings Gre
ated in some way by some one, and
that some one is SO extremely sore
over the matter that the school was
not represented. Again you say,
This seems to us extremely child
ish and would be expected from the
children themselves, but not the
grOwn-ups who have charge of their
education" You close by saying
the reason the school didn't take part
was simply because some people
were peeved over last year affair,
does not seem to US to be showing the
proper spirit. to say the least
We answer your criticism as fol-
lows: We advise you in the first
place, that you mistake the facts,
when you say that this school took
part in the st. Tammany parish fair
last year. This school did not in any
manner whatsoever take part in the
fair, and we do not know that any
pupil of the school, or any of the
teachers were in attendance at any
hour during the fair of last year
This being true, there could not have
been any hard feelings created, =
and no one connected with the school
could be guilty of being childish"
as you assert.
At the beginning Of the school
session last year, Supt. Lyon notified
the teachers that there would be no
school day at the fair, but later in
the session a rally day would be held
for all parish schools. In the latter
part of March the rally day was held
for two days, in which event the Sill
dell high school participated in a
wholesome manner, carrying away
q full share Of the prizes in all CON
tests. At this gathering everything
moved along smoothly, an no one
became "peeved," nor was cause
given to be.
Again, Supt. Lyon, in giving out
instructions to the teachers at the
beginning of the present school year,
said nothing to us about school day
at the fair for this year, but did say
he hoped to have a rally day again.
as we had last year, and possibly
two or three such days. When the
time is fixed for holding a rally the
Slidell high school will begin work |
in earnest, and with all that is in us.
You probably did not stop to re-
fleet when you said that our school |
should have attended the fair, that
it takes money to go to Covington,
and Just at that time we feel sure |
the parents were not favorable to |
such proposition. Only few days
previous to the opening OF the fair. |
our school was closed more than one T
week because of diptheria In our I
You also state the fair was par
ISM event. and that we should have
been there. We ask you how much
stock the people of s1idell took in |
Inc event? Why should the school
pc represented and not all the other I
interests? We have not heard any /
other criticism.
the slidell high school basketball I
team did try to arrange game with +
Inc C0yingtOn team for the last dayI
y the fair. but could not Do . -