Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
Editor News:

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School Board to reply to my last ar
ticle, and they did not. SO far they
have never answered any of my
questions, and more than that posi-
bly, they do not intend to. Either
they are ashamed or afraid to tell
the public and "Mother Patron" why
they failed to re- employ our form
err teachers. After had read their
apology (and l would apologize if l
could not say something worth read
ing) and had gotten so far as those
high sounding words, like "egregi-
Gus hallucination" and "mental aber-
rations," | thought, now the Board is
going to have something fine to say,
and To- and behold! if they did not
degenerate into street urcbin slang,
"go way back and sit down"
Since writing my last article | had
been sitting away back resting and
waiting for school and my troubles
to begin. l did not think it modest
and fair to occupy the centre of the
stage so long when so many were
wanting to be heard. truly meant
to sit there, but here came the
school board with special blessing
for me and was in the act of hand
ing it out to another party. | could
not have that, so here | am again,
and have no apology to make. If
the public does not feel interested
in our having a good school they
need not read this, and if the editor
of the News does not wish to pub
fish this it is his privilege to throw
it into the waste basket. So far he
has been exceedingly kird, and | ap-
preciate it very much.
Until the last issue of the ''News"
reached me was ignorant of the
fact that the School Board had turn.
ed down three OF our former teach
ers instead of two. If were they
| would have no more to say about
contradiction, inconsistency, home
talent and local pride. If any ones
action ever belied their words it was
theirs in regard to our third teacher.
puzzled and puzzled, went thru
mental alterations, trying to decide
what the Board meant when they
SAID they had turned down three ap
plications and had no more places
to fill, In the name of common
sense and humanity, what did the
board do with our other grade, our
ninth teacher? Do you suppose they
meant for eight teachers to teach
about five hundred children in ten
grades? Well, Pm, Pm-Gf such
an august body as our school board
can use slang, can't IO-lm stump
ed. The next thing | expect to
hear, they will be short teacher
and be wanting seven teachers to try
to teach five hundred children.
How do they expect to crowd our
children into eight rooms. We had
an overflow of children last year, we
will have even more this year. If
they could be equally proportional
among the rooms it would not be SO
bad, but the greater number of our
children are in the first four grades.
Last year with teacher for primer
and first reader there was not enough
seating room. My little boy would
come home so dirty and dusty
would say, "Son, what makes you
get your clothes so dirty?" and he
would say, "Well, mama, had to
sit on the foor," "Those other three
boys crowded me out of the seat,
or 81 had to get down on my knees
to write" | am not exaggerating or
going thru egregious Authorizations.
Just go up to the school about the
third week and take a look. | am
thankful | haYe not a little tot to
start this year. If | lid | would
send it wearing good strong belt
"a life belt would not be amiss) for
it will have to be suspended from the
ceiling, there certainly is no floor
space for it to occupy. Years ago
we had so many children we came
near pushing out the walls of our
had to reinforce them with