Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-02
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Ihst Training school Problem.

ThRt Training school Problem.
OMAHA, Aug. 3i.-To the Editor OF The
Bee: / have read with much interest
your Views as well as those Of members
of the school board on the very vital
question of the adjustment Of our train
ing school for Omaha girl graduates.
While on this, as on other questions.
great minds differ. in this contro-
versy am confident there exists an hon
est and unselfish difference OF opinion.
In giving my opinion give II not from
n theoretic standpoint. but from per-
sonal knowledge gained from actual re-
suits, results which speak for themselves,
as is evidenced by the satisfactory work
being done by the young women now
teaching in our public schools who have
graduated from our present training
school. There having been no fault
found or complaints made either by the
principals Of the schools. the parents or
the scholars as TO the competency OF
these young teachers, then why this sud
den demand for the adjustment OF this
SCHOOL,
Is II not reasonable to presume that
the graduates OF our high school or other
schools of like grades should be capable
Of teaching in any OF the graded schools
through which they have passed, this in
addition to their two years actual train
ing as teachers in the various grades?
Are the opponents of this school imbued
with the same idea that once obtained
in the Union Pacific shops, where a
young man who had served his appren-
ticeship In any mechanical calling was
requested to leave that department for
a year, learn new ideas in other shops,
Il made no difference where, and at the
end OF the year he could return and draw
a mechanics wages, in many instances
knowing less when he returned than
when he departed. The fact being con-
ceded that their work as teachers has
proven satisfactory. why put many par
ents poorly circumstanced to an unneces-
sary expense in sending their daughters
away for a training, the possession Of
which gives them no additional quallfi-
cations to teach? This could be instanced
in my own case, as 1 have a daughter. q
graduate from this training school, now
O teacher in one of our public schools and
against whom no complaint has ever
been lodged. and she is making good. Had
1 been forced to the painful necessity
of sending her TO Peru or a similar school,
It would have been beyond my financial
ability so to do. AS in my case, so in
the case of many others whose daughters
are now teaching in our schools. as we'll
as many others in like circumstances who
have economical with the view and pur-
pose OF having their daughters become
teachers through our training school
system.
would sincerely regret that our Omaha
girls be deprived OF this school, girls
whose parents willingly pay their share
of the taxes to support our schools and
that outsiders with no greater qualifica-
lions be selected in their stead. 1 take
great pride in our public schools, and in
my loyalty to them / yield to no man.
As proof to that statement point to the
fact that my children have all graduated
from the Omaha grade schools. one now
In the high school and another in the
Commercial High.
ask the School board TO let that school
alone, as it is the poor mans hope.
ED f. MOREARTY