The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-09
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down fat jobs, you employ high school
graduates to teach in the grades low
Ter than the high school. We never
said anything about employing any
person without qualifications for
teaching. For heavensake, do you
mean to say that a girl of nineteen, a
graduate of our high school, can't
teach TO boys and girls younger than
herself the lessons that are fresh in
her mind? What a reflection on the
high school! We believe we know a
score or more of high school girls,
graduates of. recent years, who could
go into the school room and teach, not
$50 well perhaps as an experienced
teacher, but well enough to help keep
the school going. We have known
several high school, and even gram
mar school students, who in the alb
sence or sickness of the regular
teachers, have very efficiently taken
their places. 1t is great encourage
ment to a man who works hard, de-
MES himself and pays heavy taxes to
Igive his daughter high school edu-
/, cation to have you say she hasn't
sense enough to go back to school and
teach the lessons she learned last
year-to call her a novice or green.
thorn, and put her in the same class
with people who can't look after pigs.
Sueaking of pigs. how about that ag-
ricultural course that you and your
brother and sister faddists foisted on
the people. 1t ought to instruct a
high school graduate to look after
pigs with her eyes shut, let alone
children.)
By the way, what is this "educa>
ltional autocracy" you talk about?
One would think it was on par with
the German autocracy. It must be
some kind of Before Day Club" or
Sunday Morning Band" as / fail
Ito come in contact with it, not being
up before day and lying abed late on
Sunday mornings.
Qt's characteristic of the auto
crat, Mr.. Crimson, that he never
knows he is autocrating. We have
no doubt that Kaiser Bill sincerely be-
lieves he is benevolent providence
and only the wicked refuse to obey
his will. You and your brother and
sister teachers are autocrats, all
right; as soon as the Star applied the
name to you, the public realized it
Iitted.)
If have used plain language in the
discussion of plain subject it is with
the kindest Of feeling for all con-
cerned.
(Your language is not only plain,
Mr.. Crimson; it's homeiy. We are go
ing to stir you up to use some more
of it in few days.
/ until next time. The Starr
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