The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-04-25
School Notes

for holding the elections OF tet chsis
for the schools next year and the Su-
perintendent Is sending out this week
notice to the members of the board for
that meeting. Reports have been 70.
ceived Fl m Nashville from the March
and eli teachers who can
expect to receive certificates before the
opening Of the schools in the summer
now have them All communities and
advisory directors in selecting and rec
teachers for election should
cunfiue their selections to teachers huId
ing ceruticstrs good tor the veah end.
ing June 1920. or otherwise their sell
eclion by the County Board will be i'm
possible under the law. The County
Board and County Superintendent have
no dis cretlon in the matter, whatever,
but MUST employ only the teachers who
have certificates for tnis period. As
in the past. teachers who have ceItlfi-
Gates expiring June 30. this year, can
have same renewed for another two
years by attending the Summer School
ut the Normal in Memphis and getting
credits there and can know the result
in time to begin the schools In July or
August.
The County superintendent has been
out mo.t of last and the present week
visiting the schools of the county. This
work was begun q short time before
the heavy rain in March. but had to be
postponed on account of the terrible
havoc to roads and bridges by that down
pour. Everv school in session as long
as two weeks longer will be visited
within that time. which will take in all
the schools of the county since Christ
mas except those that have closed al
ready. 1t was the intention to see ev-
cry school In the county during March
and April. and nice progress was being
made when the rains interfered, and
with two heavy ones since the one re-
ferred to, travel over most of the roads
of the county has been impossible.
For answer to the question that has
come to the Superintendent's Office
several times recently. it 10 stated that
the county issues State Public School
Diplomas to every pupil completing the
Eight Grade Schools, and High School
Diplomas at the completion of the four
year course at the County High School.
Teachers desiring these Diplomas should
confer with the CouatY Superintendent.
giving names Of such as are entitled
to these Diplomas and the Diplomas
will be sent out. bearing signatures Of
the State Superintendent, County Su.
perintendent, and Chairman Of the
County Board, and to be signed by the
teacher in charge. The Eighth Grade
Diplomas are in the Office of the County
Superintendent. the High School Dip
Tomas have to come from Nashville.
Thirty teachers in public schools Of
the county met last Saturday at the
High School building here for their
monthly institute. Prof. I B. Loggins.
Dean Of the Faculty of the West Ten
nessee Normal, talked on Arithmetic
as it relates to actual business and the
defects Of our system Of teaching it.
1t was announced by the County Super
intenden. that no more institutes will
be held until September, the third Sat-
urdsy. when work for next year will
begin in the institute line. Attend
ance at the meetings the year just
closed has been exceptionally good and
we are particularly grstified at the in
terest shown by most of the teachers
Of the county, and yet there are few
who have not attended a meeting.
There will be no summer institute this
year, and every teacher who can pos
sibly do so Is urged to 90 to the sum
mer school at the West Tennessee Nor
NAL or some Of the other accredited
schools in the state.
Three fourths of the teachers In the
county schools are asking Tor an increas:
in salary and the Superintendent
and the County Board would be glad II
many of these requests could be grant
ed, realizing that they are just and de-
serving. But the question Of funds
confrunts the Board. as does its desirs
and deter mina,ion TO carry on its worn
without overstepping the limit Of la
income. The only way to get addition.
oil salaries for these teachers and thus
retain the best among the corps Of teach
ers is to Ievee sn additional school tax
to meet the increased expense. Does
the county want thin? II 90 ted youl
Justice of the Peace before the July
court levees the 1919 tax.
When the school closes local advisory
directors should see that the house II
securely locked and the windnws fast
ened down and the property taken esrt
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