Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
"MOther Patron" Brings
More Points Regarding
WhitWelTS School Needs


and il does seem to me must, "thiD'
out our down stairs rooms by hav
ing a class room and ninth teacher
as we did last year. can't, "found
er around in mental alterations al
much as you please, see any earthly
reason Certainly no heavenly reas'
on) for the Board wanting to take
away one of our teachers. | don't
pretend to understand our schOo
board. | think sometimes they
themselves don't know why they act
thus and So AS one man said to
me, 81 think they are good, honest
men, but lack school sense" posi-
bly, that is so.
| | wonder if the Board has ever
paused to compare our schools with
the other schools of Marion county,
Where do you suppose the county
schools get the money to pay as
many again teachers to teach the
same number of children as we have
teaching our children? Don't you
know we all Gay into a common
fund and we should draw out equal
ly If we pro rate according to the
number of our children, which we
don't do. The law says that every
school in the county must run the
same length of time. One teacher
draws one salary, another another.
Every school is drawing out of the
same fund, eating as it were out of
a common dish. - If one school uses
ladle and one a teaspoon, when
the money is all gone, what have we
gained? We can't possibly do the
whole county any great service by
saving the salary OF one poorly paid
teacher We most certainly can
and will do our school a great deal
of harm, there is such thing as
straining at a gnat and swallowing
a camel.
We have laws forbiddlng crowd.
ing chickens into a coop or calves
into Car, but there seems to be no
law against crowding our children
into school rooms until the very
walls of the building protest.
1t seems to me i: was treating US
badly enough to take away our
former teachers, but to strike at
the physical we'll being of our
of our children is too much. Don't
we mothers work and worry, and
spend all our time and energy doing
all we can to keep our children ply
sically strong and well, and then
take them to school and for five
days in the week deprive them
of sufficient fresh air and room IN
which to grow properly is lnhuman.
| am not hysterical, nor having hal.
lucinations, all | ask of you is to 90
and see when we start school with
eight teachers. | can't believe the
Board means for us to have only
eight teachers, there must be a mis-
understanding somewhere. The
Board has employed for us young
teachers, just starting their teaching
career. In all fairness to them the
Board surely will give them fight
ing chance to make good. Didn't
we have teacher after teacher desert
and leave us last year, (my little
girl had four teachers in one term)
because the work was too much for
them, and they were not new on the
Sob" either.
| am not sure | knew the Board
kept books, Since they do, tho, |
would like to see or know how much
money we have to spend for one
term, how we get it and how we
spend it. Other schools of the coun-
ty either get more money than we
do or they get bigger and better re-
suits. We don't pay our teachers
high salaries, neither do we enlarge
or improve our building nor beautlfy
our grounds. We get our fuel
cheap in comparison. Unless our
money goes for watering our child
rem out of a barrel and paying our
janisor, | can't see why we do not
have longer terms Well, anyway
we are going to have as long term