The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-23
TEACHERS AND CERTIFICATES
Nearly Three Thousand instructors
Now Employed in State

Now Employed in State
The following bulletin has been Is.
sued from the Office OF the commits
.sioner Of education.
We have Just been looking over in
our Office the records OF teachers and
their certhcation for the present year
Some interesting facts we're re.
yealed There appear to be 278O
teachers now employed in the state,
Of whom 26l6 hold regular certificates.
l44 are teaching on permits issued by
the state. and 30 have directors per.
nits
The twenty following districts are
recorded as having every teacher reg
llarly cert hcated
Bennington. Incorporated district.
IS teachers; Chittenden, south dis
trict "A franklin, northeast district.
10; ST ~ bans, 80, Grand Isle county.
%; Cambridge, r., Johnson. II; Or
.eans central district, As; Orleans.
lorth district, IS; Rutland, central
district 20; Rutland, south district.
49, Rutland, So; Proctor, %; Barre
city, SC; Barre town. %; Montpelier,
10; Brattleboro, 81; Hartford Al;
Spr ngheld, AZ; Windsor, Is
Eight dltricts have only one teach.
r each employed on permit:
Addison central district, 46 teach.
ers; Caledonia, north, %; Chittenden,
east, SO Chittenden, central 81; Fair
fax, 70; Washington. central, SO:
Wndham. northwest. %: Windsor.
northwest, 49,
Ten other districts have but two
permit teachers each The other
twenty seven districts range from 8
10 Is permits each
Thirty ght districts have total of
1898 teachers. Of whom % are teach.
ne on permit; twenty seven other
districts have a total of 1867 teachers,
AMI li6 Of these are permit teachers.
Some of these permit teachers are
il course superior, but the great ma.
ority are not They should be re
placed SO far as possible By trained
regularly certlhcGted teachers. Fort
I lna;cly we have this year a large
number OF girls in the Training
Glasses. and I is not exagg oration To
Gy that they have had the best train
ing that any yearly group has yet had
Superior training instructors. re-or-
ganizat!on of the work, co operation
and excellent supervision have brought
.bout this result
Thu present prospect is that there
yi be enough trained teachers to I'LL
III our elementary and rural school
,acancies Certainly this viii be true
FOR every town whore the superin
tendent and directors VII act with
reasonable promptness in filing va
rancies, and will pay reasonable sal
aries
At the present tine III towns and
single school districts have none hut
-ogularly certifcated teachers, This
number should be greatly increased
next September Sixty.four towns
rave hut one permit teacher The
-est $500 have from two to five I'm
certified teachers.
II your district ana Your towns ara
On the honor list" keep them there
L not, work hard to get them there.
As to salaries do not be extravagant
but pay good salaries. You cannot
get nor keep ilrstclass teachers for
bargain.eounter, marked-down prices
You cannot have a high grade schoo
with a low-grade teacher Poor teach
ers will sroil your schools and double
your troubles.
Learn right away what vacancies
vou will have. Sign up your new
teachers as soon as possible. Adyis,
vour permit teachers Gf elgiblel tc
enter training classes next fall; there
will be but few. il an, places for them
Remember that Just as the best fist
are waiting for the FIRST men, will
good bait. who ret in the stream, ST
YOU will find that fine, attractive
eapable teachers are the reward of tn,
men who get out early to catch them
Yours for better schools and bette
teachers.
Clarence II. Dempsey
Commissioners of Education