Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-10-21
HENRY H. HANSON,
political Advertisement
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES


At least half of the state is in the
same situation that we are. While
the salary question is a big issue this
year, we feel that if school boards
raised salaries $25 a month it would
not help the situation materially.
Teachers are not to be gotten. All
that can be accomplished by big sal
aries now is to give young people
a desire to become teachers, and the
result will be more teachers in the
future. There is no more attractive
opening now than the teaching pro-
fession. We realize that if some Of
US had spent the same time at. some
other profession that we have in teach
ing we would have gotten much furth-
er, but we are confident that in the
future the teaching profession will
come into its own. Everyone will
not be allowed to teach, only those
who have training for the job will be
accepted. The average person would
absolutely refuse to have anyone but
a trained person perform an operation.
Is is not necessary that you should
have a trained person to build up your
|children's education? !? -.
There must be some way to get
Normal Trained teachers into the ru-
raj schools. It is absolutely impos-
sible to get ninety-five per cent of the
normal graduates to consider a rural
school for . minute. They feel that
when they have finished such school
they are too good, for rural school.
Then, too, there are barely enough
graduates each year to supply the
places of those who quit the profess
sion. We believe there is solution
to this: First, slet us make our rural
schools as attractive as our city
schools; let's. consolidate wherever
practicable. Second, let US put
normal department into every high
school, and give that high school
enough state aid to enable it to keep
that department up. Then let US in
duce every eighth grade graduate to
attend these schools and become train
ed teachers. Then we would have
home teachers acquainted with condi-
tions in our county. This year we
graduated 103, and il we could induce
the majority Of these to study teach
ing for two years and do the same
with every eighth grade class every
year, there would be no teacher prob
lem in this county.
3 We attended the Southwestern Sec
ton Of the North Dakota Education
Association at Bismarck this week.
The enrolment was more than four
hundred.
n Educators claim that. our Compul-
sorry Attendance Law is one of the
best in the United States. AS carried
out in most counties, however, it is
tnot workable. We have come to the
conclusion that no notices should be
sent out to parents not sending chill
Idren. They know when they are vio-
lating this law by this time, as we
sent out hundreds Of copies Of. the law
and hundreds Of warning letters last
year. We feel that it il. the parents,
lduty to write US when their children
are out, SO that we know whether OF
mot their excuse il valid. We intend
Ito send very few letters in the future.
There is enough in this county alone
70 Keep one truant officer busy seven
months Of the year. Since il u %
hard toseet this law enforced - It
should be, the State Superintendent
Iomee, and educators generally, are
satisfed that this state must have
truant officers. Therefore, law will