Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-11-29
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To THE TEACHERS
Calls Attention to Next State
Examination to Be Held
at Jasper Dec 20-21.

A state teachers examination
will be held at the Sam Houston
Academy in Jasper on Thursday
and Friday. December Goth and
21st.
Everyone who does not hold a
regular certificate and who wants
to teach in the public schools next
year should take this examina-
ton. TIE Marion County Board
of Education passed a resolution
at one of its meetings in August
that no more teachers holding
only temporary certificates shall
be employed in the public schools
of Marion county, except in cases
where no one holding a regular
certificate can be found to take
the school.
This should be sufficient notice
to all who have been teaching on
temporary certificates that their
services are no longer wanted in
the public schools of Marion coun-
ty unless they make themselves,
at least, sufficiently competent to
procure a regular teachers GER
tificate.
While text book knowledge is
absolutely essential to successful
teaching, it does not necessarily
follow that any one is a success
full teacher because of the fact
that he or she has text book
knowledge.
There are a number of other
elements to be considered by
school board in the employment
of a teacher. This fact is so well
known that it is not necessary to
discuss it Some teachers holding
the highest grade certificate are
dead failures in the school room,
and should not be employed.
Teachers must not be satisfied
with the mere ability to procure
a certificate. The children of
Marion county, as we'll as other
counties, are entitled to the very
best possible instruction, and this
can be given only by trained
teachers. The survival of the
fittest" is an memorable law of
nature, and if you expect to con-
tInue in the sacred profession of
teaching, you must be among the
"fittest."
Far as | am concerned, | want
to see the teachers of Marion
county employed in the schools of
Marion county, but this must not
be done at the expense and sacri
flee of the children of Marion
county.
The average salary of the pub
lie school teachers of Marion coun-
ty this year is SAT per month,
which is a considerable increase
over last year. the length of the
school term is increasing, compe-
tition among teachers is becom-
ing more acute, and if you want
to remain in the profession, to use
a slang expression, you must get
busy.
| am sounding this note of
warning now, not for the purpose
of discouraging anybody, but for
the purpose of giving you a chance
to prepare to meet the RESPONSE
bilities and requirements which
are undoubtedly coming.
In conclusion. let me advise
you as friend to make the very
best preparation possible for this
examination and don't fail to be
on hand at the appointed time and
place.
Please don't call me over the
telephone or write me for the
purpose of rendering a lot of eX-
cuses as to why you cannot at
tend the examination. 1t is
nothing to me whether you take
it or not. The State Superintend-
ent of Public instruction has call
ed the examination. 1t may be |
the only chance you will have to
qualify as a teacher before the
schools open. So, the matter is