The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1920-01-28
RESOLUTIONS BY.
COUNTY TEACHERS

The following resolutions have been
adopted by the Lexington County
| Teachers Association:
Realizing the unlimited influence
| of the teachers work upon the ma
ton. state. the community, the home,
and upon the future mental, moral,
and physical state of the individual;
and further realizing that a work of
such outstanding. importance as pre-
pairing pliable youth to attain the
| broadest sphere of usefulness in the
religious, political and social world
and the highest degree Of happiness
for self demands the service of the
most thoro, efficient and conscientious
J Individuals who may be found amonS
all our people-and being fully aware
! Of the fact that the present unattrac-
/ tive features of the teaching profess
sion are so prominent as to prevent
many of ou rbetter prepared and more
qualified men and women from enter
i ing this profession at all, and to drive
many of the more efficient who have
entered out at their first opportunity
! to get into a more attractive calling
and on account of this condition being
forced to recognize the justification
of the claim Of an appreciable number
of parents that their children are be-
ing forced to waste percious time sit
ting under incompetent teachers: We,
the members of the Lexington County
immediate action to produce higher
minimum standard for preparation re-
quired of teachers; a more exacting
and standardized system of teachers
examination, free as far as practicable
from personal and political influence;
and any steps tending toward the eli
mination of the persent overcrowding
of schools-steps to prevent one
teacher being required to teach from
forty to seventy-five pupils in all
grammar grades.
We also endorse consideration Of
system of teachers pensions after
some definite length of service or in
cases of disability.
We further favor increase in salar-
les as will make the income large
enough, to enable the qualified teach
ers in our present force to make teach
ing their exclusive and lasting occu-
patton; TO appeal to the best Of our
young men and women when life's
work is being chosen; to attract and
retain a sufficient number not only
to relieve the preSent shortage OF
teachers but also create a surplus Of
applicants large enough to cause those
of our ranks who are only partially
prepared for the work they are at
tempting, ,to either better prepare
themselves or enter another calling;
and to give to this profession the dig
nifty and respect it deserves.
We earnestly request consideration
OF the foregoing petitions by the Lex
ington County Delegation in the State
Legislature, and plead with every citl-
zen for reawakened educational in
terest that will spare neither moral
or financial support in checking the
present deterioration in the personnel
of the teaching corps; and believing
that every white child in South Caro-
lima should have an equal chance for
education and self development, We
further plead for such school condi-
tions as will give every child the op-
portunity of being taught by a pro-
fessional teacher, especially trained
for his work
JOHN S. SCHNEIDER.
(MISS) ETHEL DREHER
w. f.. BLACK,