Milford chronicle., 1919-08-01
DIR. .BACHMAN EXPLAINS
THE new SCHOOL CODE
EXPERT SAYS THAT THE CODE RECOG-
MES TEACHING AS A HIGHLY
SPECIALIZED TASK.
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
ARE TO Be UPHELD AND THE CODE
PRACTICALLY "ANNIHILATED EXAMI-
NATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES.

NATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES.
THAT the new Delaware School
Code rests upon the principle that
teaching is a highly specialized task.
and that special preparation is neces-
sary for every kind Of position in the
school system, in other words, that
the Code recognizes teaching as a
profession. with clear-cut professional
standards and deserving profession
al reward-such in brief was the mes
sage of DR.. Frank X. Bachman of the
General Education Board on Monday
last in explaining to the Delaware
teachers at the Summer School the
New School Code, which DR.. Bachman
was largely instrumental in framing.
Pointing out the fact that the Code
provides essentially for two kinds of
teachers certificates, namely. High
School and Elementary. DR.. Bachman
said that there is no more justifica-
tion for giving a college graduate a
certificate to teach in an elementary
school than for giving an elementary
school graduate a certificate TO teach
in college"
There is no excuse" said DR.. Bach
man, for exempting the higher Off
GERS of education from the require
ments which we have sternly COM
PEELED the timid girl in the one-rOom
country school to meet" The princi-
pie of setting up bars before every
educational position. to make sure of
the professional standing of the Occu-
pant, he explained, has been carried
all the way from the humblest teacher
to those who govern the system, and
in this point Delaware will be in adj
vance of every other State in the
Union except Maryland. I'VE saw"
said Dr. Bachman that this State
would either die so dead, educational
ly, that it could not be revived in a
decade, or else that it would recover
from a surgical operation, to take the
lead of the whole country. And so
we cut no corners and the legislature
passed the law without amendments"
Explaining in detail the provisions
Of the Code regarding the certificates
by which professional standards are
10 be upheld, DR.. Bachman showed
hat the Delaware Code practically an
examinations for certificates, (
md makes going to school the basis .
If teaching in schools" Promoting .
~ examination, Dr. Bachman said, sis .
ike threshing over and over again .
I'D straw" Only second and third .
lass elementary certificates, which .
re a makeshift to tide over the per-
cd of readjustment and which will
lot be granted until 1885, can be OBJ
aimed by examination, and even in
hese cases the candidate for examin-
tion must present evidence of a min
mum of professional training.
Taking up the salary provisions of
he Code whereby it is expected to at
ract teachers of professional calibre,
Dr. Bachman pointed out that these
stablish for the first time a direct
elation between a teachers salary (!
nd his or her teaching experience
nd professional training, such as ex- (
IT'S in the other professions; and also
nat under the Code the teacher with
reparatiOn is guaranteed the Job and
eeds no longer to fear that someone
18th an uncle or cousin on the School
oard will preempt 1t, Finally. Dr.
aclrman, declared that Delaware has {
ken a vital forward step in the pro- ]
sion of Mr.. DUPONT for sixty schol- I
rships and a college education at Del /
ware College, which will make it {
Ossible to train Delaware teachers I
Delaware. UNLESS Delaware trains [
S own teachers" said DR.. Bachman, [
will be impossible and the I
teacher should be pre- [
rred, providing the training is ade- a
late" h
On Friday evening last George Dray- O
n Strayer, President of the National
iucatiOn Association, related the Del +
ware situation to the national educa- il
On movement in an address in which n
declared that higher salaries, the e
limitation of illiteracy, a sounder t
lysical basis for citizenship, educa- b
)nal provision for children between =
e ages of IA and IS. were all educa-
)nal necessities and matters of the 4
aYest concern to the nation as a II
hole. He pied in the strongest terms
support of the General Education
II. now before Congress, which
)uld create Department of Educa-
N, represented by a Secretary in the n
-binet, and would bring about a Fed U
al appropriation of 100000. 900 for
e purpose of equalizing educational
portunities throughout the United
ates. Equality OF opportunity and
e equalizing of the burden to be
rne in supporting our free public NJ
lools," said Dr. Strayer' can never pl
achieved until the wealth of the ma M
n is made available for the educa- D,
n Of all the nations children" Cl
While waiting for DR.. Bachman's ar 70
al Monday morning, vote was TAX tn
among the teachers who must stand eV
examination this summer in order le
retain or renew their State certi- vi
es, to determine whether the exam W.
tions should be held at Newark at te
close Of the summer session or in or
counties as heretofore. The vote pc
S 20 to 4S in favor of holding the cl'
animation in the counties. The ex- tn
nations will accordingly take place Ca
the Tuesday following the close of
summer school. a
IN Tuesday evening Charles Sey- IN
ur, who has just returned from his ut
ce at the peace table at Paris. gave me
hrst of his three lectures on the an
TX of the Conference, in which he DO
lined the difficulties with which the iea
erican Commission was confronted pis
en- 1t arrived in Paris. Next week, ri
Monday, August 4, John H. Finley. Ia
of Education in the MI
te of New York, will lecture on 60
lcatiOn in the afternoon, and at lie
on