Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-10-29

assistant have not been faithful in
the performance of their duties, why
was this matter not brought to the
attention of the proper authority? I.
this committee wants better schools
and better administration of the
law, why should they not have Of
fered to cooperate with the school
officials to bring about the desired
! condition instead of making a bitter
personal attack in an attempt to
m1slead the people and to prejudice
them against the school officials? 1T
was hardly the part of good citizen
ship on the part of the members of
this committee, if they had informa-
ton relative to the misconduct of in
efficiency of the county superintend-
ent or his assistant, that they did
not call the attention of the county
board of education to this matter. so
that an investigation could have been
made. The truth of the matter is
they have no charges to prefer. All
this fuss which they are trying to
stir up comes from personal hatred.
and is not born of a desire to i'm
prove the schools. Other methods
would have been used in an honest
and sincere attempt to improve con-
ditions
In the issue of this paper of Oct.
Is, 1925, We told you somewhat of
the standing of Morgan county
schools as compared with the av-
erage for the state, that Morgan
county ranks ahead on average daily
attendance, on high school enroll
ment, on number of students taking
teachers courses, and all this at a
lower average cost than the average
for the state. Morgan county schools
have uniform course of study and
uniform text books for both the ele-
mentary schools and the high
schools. The county superintendent
keeps in pretty close touch with the
work Of all the schools through Wis
itation, examinations, and reports.
so that the work is intelligently su-
pervised and directed. The attend
ance officer is doing very efficient
work both in matters of attendance
and in assisting teachers in the
work of teaching. In support of
what we have said we quote a part
of letter from a disinterested
source. The state department of
education of Ohio, to the president
of the county board of education of
Morgan county, under date of Oc-
tober %, 1925, as follows: "The
state department of education is
very well pleased with Superintend-
ent F. A. Davis who is a faithful ser
want of the people and a good su-
eervisor and administrator of your
schools. Mr.. j. S. Taylor is also es-
teemed by the state department of
for his faithful and effec-
tive work as county attendance Off |
GER of Morgan county. Morgan
is ranked as one of the best |
school counties among the state aid |
and the evidence is in the |
county schools
What changes in the schools arc |
he so-called "People's Committee"
going to make if they get control? |
Are they going to compel the ele
nentary teachers, who already have
enough to do, to teach two years of
ligh school work besides all their
,ther duties? That is what Mr..
strong said he would have them do
wo years ago, and Mr.. Abel and Mr..
)glevee are Mr.. Strong's chosen
But we do not believe
In. Strong is going to get control.
here are too many sensible people
4 Morgan county to permit our
chools to fall inc the hands of agi-
ators and fault-fnders. ~
In our first article, Oct. Is, we
Did you about our candidates and c
bout their qualifications for mem