Charlevoix county herald., 1921-02-25
FACULTY CHANGES IN
RURAL SCHOOL

The Hoffman school of Hudson town.
ship was still without teacher when
the Christmas vacation was being de-
Jared in other schools and the children
OF the district had been facing since
September the grave POSSIBILITIES of los
ing an entire year of work. II was not
that the Hoffman school was at all un.
willing to pay the price. They could
not afford it for their valuation Is low
and their school tax had already ap-
preached the six per cent mark, but
they offered to pay any price up to-
ninety dollars. On January eigth, Miss
Ruth Smith of Boyne City accepted the
school. Lucky indeed was the little
district that Miss Smith had just come
from the normal school at kalamazoo
with the intention Of teaching the re-
maiDder of the year. She is making
good and is putting forth brave effort
to give the boys and girls as much as
possible in the second half of the school
year.
Just after Miss Smith had been found
for the Hoffman school, the county was
confronted by the designations OF sew.
eral teachers: Miss Florence Jones Of
Bay Shore, Miss Josie Hammond Of
South Arm, Miss Bernice M. DeHart OF
Boyne Valley, Mrs. Georgia Burnett Of
Hopyard, Mrs. Gladys Evarts of Chand-
Ter, and Miss Orthella Porter of Chand.
Ter. 1t has been difficult task to fill
these vacancies. Every application
has been thoroughly investigated and
it has been found that there are teach
ers available, but usually those that no
one else wants. 1t is better to have q
school closed than to have a teacher
who would work positive harm in the
school room. Commissioners from sur
rounding counties were willing to
help but they were facing the same
problem and only one worthy applicant
could be gained by an exchange Of
courtesies. Advertisements were plac-
ed in the daily papers but no response
was received.
AT last, however, the positions are
cared for and we have every reason to
believe that good, substantial teachers
have been found. Mr.. G.. II. Dewey
has returned to the county to accept
the school at Bay Shore; Mrs. Lenos-
key, formerly Miss Mary Weldy, accept.
ed the Miles School, but resigned at the
end Of month and will be succeeded
by Mrs. Esther Miles, also formerly
teacher of this county; Miss Orthelia
Porter has accepted the Harmon school.
being transferred from Springvale to
the present location; Miss Evelyn
Shannon of Petoskey will arrive next
week to teach the Hopyard school;
Miss Edith Sellers of Warsaw, Indiana,
has begun work in the Dana School at
Chandler, and Mrs. Constance Gailop
has agreed to complete the year of
work in the Springvale School. Mrs.
Gallop was formerly Miss Constance
Weber, one of the very successful tea
chers OF the county.
Six schools are transporting their
children and find il very successful in
its operation, The shortage Of teachers
is becoming very acute problem and
school boards are advised to hire early.
If teachers are making fairly good II
will be better to engage them for q Sec
ond term if possible and gain thereby
the benefit of the year of experience
they have already had in their respec-
tive districts. The chances of success
in employing stranger ase sometimes
less than fifty-fifty and the future
should be dead-certainty when the
future of boys and girls hangs in the
balance.