Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

(By M. L. Sterrett, Co. Supt.) The next regular teachers, examination will be held at the high school building Saturday, Meh. 27. All January conditions, state and county, must be ’ removed then. Teachers are urged to make a state license. There is little excuse for experienced teachers holding county license only. The experienced teacher who has used her time properly during her teaching experience this closing year does not fear the teachers’ examination. Jasper county records show that our present teachifig staff has been well represented on the successful list in the state department at Indianapolis. This is a credit to any county and to the individual teacher who assisted in making this record. Teachers are advised to make their licenses early so that 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 and women in the county have been asking whether there would be a possibility of teaching the coming year without a license. The law on 11-

censing teachers has not changed in the least. The state department issues certificates of professional training to individuals who have attended college or normal schools outside Indiana. A special blank can be gotten to aid such a college man or woman in getting his credentials before the state teachers’ training board at Indianapolis. If the transcript of credentials merits either a provisional certificate or life license then the applicant will be given what the transcript of credentials merit. Otherwise the applicant must take and pass the regular teachers’ examination before a- license can be issued. Furthermore the accredited schools in Indiana issue certificates of professional training to applicants who were not in the teaching profession prior to 1908. Such applicants must possess such a certificate before 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 should 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 education are giving their school this year. The play recently staged at Konovsky’s ha%i 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 purpose a few nights back. South Marion consolidated gave a school function recently and made nearly S6O also to apply towards paying for their victrola. It is highly commendable to any community that recognizes the place of the school as a genuine community asset. The most promising feature for the future of Jasper county will be found cudgeled in some forms of school loyalty. Many of the Barkley, Union, Milroy township schools will close next week. Most of the eighth grade pupils in Union township will continue their work in the Fair Oaks school which is maintaining a specie of the junior high school. Keener township offers the same opportunity to eighth graders in the country schools also. Demotte is maintaining a specie of the junior high school where they are allowed to continue. Patrons in Jasper county are registering very few complaints through the mails nowadays. Practically every teacher in ,Jasper county Is doing 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 so register well-founded complaints against the Indifferent teacher. The teachers’ pedigrees will soon be given a full airing when the trustees begin their work with the enumeration in about two weeks. All signs are very favorable to the teachers In general to date. A number of “big dinner” occasions are being planned in communities to give the teacher a farewell remembrance.