The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-23
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES

week announcing the County Educa-
tional Conference which will be held
at the Pennington High School build
ing on Thursday and Friday, August
29th and 30th. To call particular at
tention to any one number of this ex-
cellent program would be equivalent
to an adverse criticism of the others.
1t will be a meeting that no teacher
can ford to miss and one that no
earnest and sincere teacher will miss.
Members of school boards are also
requested and urged to attend this
meeting if possible. While this will
not be a regular School Board Con-
vention, matters of vital concern to
school boards and patrons generally
will be discussed. The school people
should be organized for the current
school year as never before. Willful
and intentional absence from a teach
ersfT meeting constitutes disloyalty to
the public schools of the most vicious
type. These lines are written with
tha&eryent hope and the proud belief
thSt.no such teachers are at this time
uneef>ccntfact to each other in the
public schools of st. Francois county.
Requests continue to pour into this
Office that copies of the State Course
OF Study be sent out. Under date of
August 18th the County Superintend-
ent wrote State Superintendent Lam
kin as follows: "Please send me as
many copies of the old 1915 Course of
Study as you can spare. i find that
l am seriously handicapped by not
being able to place a copy of the
Course in the hands of my young
teachers. hope that the new Cours-
es will be out at an early date"
The reply of the State Superintend-
ent to the letter quoted above was as
follows: 81 am entirely out of the old
Courses of Study. Chief Clerk Oaker-
son is here today reading the proof on
the new Course. We hope to have
them out at the last of this month"
1t is hoped that copies of the New
Course will be available for distribu-
tion at the County Teachers Meeting
next week.
A continuation of the discussion Of
the items listed in this column last
week is as follows:
3. Impress upon your teachers the
National Emergency in Education.
The demands of the war, and of war
activities, the high cost of living, and
low salaries, have contributed to an
alarming shortage of mature, we'll
trained, experienced teachers at a
time when the country demands
larger service. Everyone of US should
realize the responsibility of the teach
er and do better work this year than
ever before.
A. To meet the emergency the Ma
tional Education Association expects
to enlist the Entire Teaching Profess
sion. There are five parts to its pres
ent program: .,e..>z
a. To insure through more attrac-
tive rewards and through greatly i'm
proved facilities for professional pre-
paration, an adequate supply of COM
petent teachers.
b. To promote through physical and
health education and through the en-
couragement of wholesome recreation,
the physical well being of all the peo-
pie.
C. To insure that every element of
the immigrant population shall be as
simulated to American ideals and in
stitutions so far as the provisions Of
educational facilities can promote this
end.
d. To eliminate illiteracy in the ma
tive-born adult population.
e. To develop the industrial, moral
and intellectual forces of the nation
through compulsory continuation
schooling of boys and girls who now
leave school and go to work before
their ideals Of life and conduct have
been firmly established. n
In order to carry out this program
the N. 4. A. will have to have the sup
port of the entire teaching profession.
A little later your teachers will be
asked and expected to enroll as mem
bers Of the N. A.. e. We must have
at least 5000 new members in Mis-
souri,. am sure that your county will
do its share.
Topic will be discussed in this col
umn next week.
co. SUPT. OF SCHOOLS.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Coffield attended
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