The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-07-10
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TAX PAYERS ATTENTION
To the local taxpayers 4
We understand that the question
Of whether or not duly qualified
home teachers should or should
not be employed in our local schools
may be considered the main issue
at the July school election. There
fore it seems only fair to present
both sides of the question to the
public.
We find in our particular locality
some of our best bankers, doctors,
nurses, business men-all home
products, who have proven their
worth. The teacher alone seems to
be barred, the one who would give
service to all the children of all
the people.
Should not a teacher be main
tanned, retained, or discontinued
because of her merits or demerits
as teacher?
Because failure resulted several
years ago by placing home girls
in our school does it means we
would all be failures?
Why encourage our youth to be
the valedictorians of their respec-
tive classes if they must go among
strangers to prove their ability?
In all fairness are the people who
support our schools unwilling to
give the home girl, (who does her
bit for the betterment of our city
twelve months of the year-all the
years of her life)-an even chance
with an outsider, to prove that she
has the ability to raise or lower the
standards of the schools? The ques-
ton of placing married women in
our schools has and will be dis
cussed pro and con; but have they
who have opposed such action ever
given consideration to the follow
ing points: 1st. That the ordinary
married woman will not re-enter
the teaching field just for luxury's
sake?
End. That she must be able "to
deliver the goods" in this day of
keen competition?
8. That she should be better
qualified to handle our children,
for, even taking her home life into
consideration, she has not so many
4th. That if ones talent is teach
ing, it should not be condemned
any more than any other work
that wife might wish to do?
It is the duty of every school
board carefully to investigate each
to ascertain the neces-
sity of every married woman re-
entering the teaching service.
Truly, is justice something we
must read or dream about now-a-
days?
We prate about our local high
school; about what our graduates
will and may accomplish. Is it
just or fair to tell our graduates
that they may accomplish great
things-but conceal from them the
fact that they are useless in the
schools of Sauk Centre where they
have obtained their presumerably
admirable start? Is the notion that
a woman, born and raised in this
community, is inadequate to the
task of teaching in this community,
not relic of by gone days?
Sauk Centre has women with fur
ther education, whose interests are
bound up with the welfare of this
community, women who have made
a success in the teaching profess
sion. Is the notion that such wo-
men must go outside this COM
if they want positions as
teachers in accordance with COM
mon sense or Civic pride or with
pride in our local schools, or with
right reason? The proposition that
such women dare not aspire to po-
sitions in our local schools, seems
to be without a basis in common
sense or right reason, it seems to
conflict with the ordinary rudi-
ments of civic pride, or pride in the
ability Of our local schools to turn
out capable teachers, and it does
indicate, albeit unintentionally, our
belief that the training of our To-
cal schools (plus further education)
is inferior, not to be compared to
that given by other schools whose
graduates are notably inferior to
our own.
Let every fair minded tax payer,
of this the Goth century think
this matter over and over a.
the coming July school election, as
this is the only way that the will of
all the people can be made known.
Mrs. R. v. Plant.