The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11

ests as well. Therefore the lowering ):
of standards is comparable to boring <
holes in the bottom of the boat. This =
is the only remedy that some people y
think of when they have difficult \
problem to solve. If we throw down
the bars and invite in whatsoever q
WILL" can we thereby have school? 4
School progress has very rarely come
from local demands. Permissive leg =
islation has soon given way to man )
datory law on minimum requirements.
State systems of education have sup =
planted local education generally. At )
present the only hope would seem to
be in a state aid proposition that
would equalize educational opportuni
ty for all the children of all the peo- a
pie. The Smith one per cent law
seems to be dangerous ground. Al
though it does not permit US to pay .
as we go, no one seems to have the
nerve to attack it. Because of the
blindness of both leaders and follow
ers, the back thrust of the war is
being visited in a most terrible way
upon the youth of our land. Can we
afford it? If viewed in the right
light, we cannot afford it. Whatever
society denies the pupils now in our
public schools. it will pay with inter-
est little later.
believe in boys and girls. In many
\ respects the schools are now better
. suited to girls than to boys. | have
. nothing but good words for the conf
: petent and sacrificing women in the
O teaching profession. What we should
! do without them, am unable to say.
d Nevertheless, the boy in the public
: school today is surfeited in feminity.
d When boy gets into his teens, he
should meet a good man teacher.
This will rebound to the benefit of
the girl as we'll. At present there are
but four men regularly employed to
teach in the grades and but one of
,r these men would have been there ex-
h. cept in the exegencies of the situa-
a. ton. Gradually but nevertheless
tv surely, our schools have become
If manned by women. The cause is in
VS. the salary paid No man can hope to
as take up teaching with the hope OF
: supporting family, yet the mans life
en- as teacher would be many times
III. longer than that which may be expect
liz ed of the woman teacher. A man
m trained properly for teaching woult
lat therefore serve many years after M
les became rather proficient; with mos
in women this does not hold. l main
cir tain that we are facing an educationa
collapse. Many of the best have lef
ers the profession; others will go. Tn
err normal schools have fallen off in at
tendance. There are practically n
young men in them. Many Of tn
young women now in the norma
schools are not the best prospects br
of the "second raters" of our hlg
to schools. The cities are revising the
to salary schedules. They are going
my raid our ranks and carry away OF
| in best teachers by another year. O1
'out of our teachers in consolidate
,ons school has had three opportunity
With to leave, two offers from the Clev
). 1t land schools and another from anoth
ad- large city. The call has and W
well come to others. Without the abili
gain to compete with these above mentio
Red ed school systems on salary, | sh;
,ffee feel absolved from the responsible
tt of filling our teaching positions t
the next year with competent teache
Parents should have high rega
crest for the abilities of their childr'
the They should in the minds eye 10
le Of ahead to what the child might becon
5. If the prospect seems at all go'
the there is no sacrifice too great for p;
had ents to make in behalf Of the chi
ught Children in this age "do not pay
7ings cept in the satisfaction that comes
parents who see them as fine you
,eing men and women Of which they NJ
nd a not be ashamed. A stream cannot
higher than it's source. When m
berry seed falls into the ground
gerninates, it begins to be transfol
ed into silk. All the way from
q 4 primary school to the university,
} \; best teacher is none too good. v
.. desires, parent or taxpayer, to e.
a child in the desert of thoughtle
ness or to chain him in the slav
of ignorance. Let US see to it
,,,,r the children are so trained that e
,etn Sst;nr may say with the poet, "My mine
sssio4 ''sS ~ me a kingdom is"