Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

The state department. sent the following licenses to County Superintendent Sterrett for distribution this week: Ethel Johnstone, Remington; Beatrice Tilton, Rensselaer; Lena Williamson, Remington; Mary Luther, Surrey; Daza M. Brown, Fair Oaks; Grace Warnock, Remington; A. C. Campbell, Fair Oaks; Mabel Ellis, Mt. Ayr; Marie Nevill, Rensselaer; R. C. Allen, Demotte; Grace Knapp, Wiheatfleld. Common school licenses were issued to the first four applicants mentioned above and high school to the others. State is withholding seven high, school licenses for training certificates. These will he issued as soon as the applicants can get duplicates issued from the various, schools where the professional training was taken. The schools of Union township are still operating. Trustee Harrlngton has entered into a separate contract with his teachers to tinue the schools another month. The attendance at Virgie, Gant, Aix and Center has been very unsatisfactory and has made a very mean situation to solve. The other schools of the township seems to have a fair attendance. The reports from the teachers rendered monthly shows that there are about 180 eighth grade pupils this year in the county. They are distributed as follows: Barkley 21, Carpenter 11, Gillam 15, Hanging Grove 10, Jordan 18, Kankakee 10, Keener 15, Marion 11, Milroy 9, Newton 19, Union 19, Walker 18, Wheatfleld 6. This report shows about 40 more this year than last. No beginning . teachers were able to make a licence on the January examniation. Several took state and were unable to make it there also. There were fourteen who wrote for their first. The beginning teacher who has a firm conviction" to tehch school will appear on each examination with a little mure teaching knowledge. An applicant who accidentally makes a license and follows this by acci- »* ' '

dentally teaching, usually becomes very to the taxpayers of the community where she teaches her accidental school. A firm conviction that the applicant will teach school the following year usually results In a license, a school and a success.