Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The next regular teachers’ examination will be held at the high school building next Saturday, March 27 th. All January conditions, state and county, must be removed then. Teachers are urged to make S State license. There is little excuse for experienced teachers holding county license only. The experienced teacher who has used her l 4mer , l>roperiyi during her> teaching r-gnpuuienca this sieriiM -year doe* i not* /edr. the teKshcra- examination. Jasper county records show ■ that upsesent i teschIPSt staff has -been well, presented •iB Aha sueeedsfuldirt- iw Aha state department at Indianapolis. This is a credit to any county and to the individual. teacher who „ assisted .us making l this -reeqrd. *'Teachers are advised, to jpske 4hei>i licensee early so .Ahat .opportunities can be grasped when they appear. No school official will welcome an applicant unless the applicant can produce a license. A number of college men a,nd women in the county have been asking whether there would be a possibility of teaching the coming year-without a license. The law on licenrfng teachers has not been changed *in the least. ' 'The state department issues certificates of professional -training to individuals who- have attended college or normal schools outride Indiana. A special blank -ean be gotten to aid such -a coUege man <y woman in getting his credentials before the State Teachers’ Training Board at Indianapolis. “If * the transcript of credentials -merits either a - provis-ional-certificate or life license then the- applicant will -be given what the transcript ’of credentials merit. Otherwise appheant must take and --pass-'the-‘regular teachers’ examination‘'before a license can be

issued. j Furthermore ‘ the accredited schools in Indiana issue certificates of professional training to applcants- who- were not in the teaching profession prior to 1908. Such apphianta .niust possess such a certificate übefore a state or county license, can., be issued. This is equally true of the county superintendent’s teaching permits. They can only be issued to applicants upon request from trustees and only -to those who.have a certificate of professional . .training.. Applicants shauld make a careful. study of Indiana law to discover.: their own teaching status.

It is .especially, interesting to note the response that .DeMotte patrons and . friends of giving their s school this year. The play recently staged at Konovsky’s hall < netted ■ a -neat little amount slightly above SBO. This - fund was accumulated to. < buy books for the school : library. , Tefft shows loyalty quite, frequently-- also. The school netted about SSO for a similar. r purpose a few nights back. South Marion consolidated gave a school .Junction recently and. made nearly. S6O . also to apply towards paying for .their vifftrola. . It is highly, commendable to any u community. that, .recognises the (dace of the- school as a genuine community asset. । The most promising feature for ; the future of Jasper, county will cudgeled in some forms of. schooLloyalty. Many of the Barkley, Union, Milroy township, schools, will close next week. ,„Most,<of .ithe eighth grade

.pupils in Union township will continue their work in the Fair,.Oaks school which is 4 maintaining a specie of thp. junior high school. Keener township - offers f,the same opportunity tw eighth graders in the country schools. also. , DeMotte is maitaining. a. specie of the, junior high school where r they are allowed to continue. Patrons in Jasper county ere registering very .few .complaints thru the . mails nowadays- Practically every teacher in Jasper , county is during her best to wind up a successful term ‘of. school. A community is very sensitive to impositions upon the. children. ‘Whenever a teacher manifests a disposition to shirk any duty then objections through the mail , begin to come , to the trustee and county superintendent. The patrons have a perfect right to register well .founded complaints -against the indifferent teacher. Ml The teachers’ - pedigree . will soon be given a full airing when the trustees begin their work with the- enumeration* in -: J about two weeks. 'AH signs are very favorable the * teachers- in general to date. A -number- of ’•’‘bigdinner” oeca■foire -are- beings planned in eomnrunities to give* the teacher a farewell remembrance.