Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1920 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

(By Co. Supt Sterrett) - • The board met in regular session last Monday with th 6 following trustees answering to the roll call: Fairchild of Keener, Duggleby of Kankakee, LaFevre of Gillam, Harrington of Union, Rush of Newton, Postill of Marion, Barker of Hanging Grove, Wood of Milroy, and Huff of Jordan came in for the afternoon session that had adjourned. The board allowed and ordered filed Mr. Mawhorter’s bills for salary and expenses. The subject of truancy was presented by a number of trustees and a resolution was passed unanimously urging the truant officer to give more attention to flagrant abuses of the law in the northern end of the county. A number of thb teachers are giving box socials and ordering Y. P. S. C. books. Many teachers ask about the address of the company publishing these books. They can be gotten of John F. Haines, 619 Lemcke Building, Indianapolis, Ind. The state-wide educational awakening will reach every school in Jasper county. Teachers who are planning box socials can' give this in connection with that program. This educational stimulus should be giveh from Nov. 7 till Nov. 17. But If it is Impossible to give if between those dates then it can be given later. Each teacher should cater to her duty in this regard. The trustee will co-operate in this matter. Two classes of teachers furnish material for discussions in the board meetings. The first class is the failing class; the second class is the exceptionally successful teachers. The mediocre teacher is the teacher who does her work, attends to her school affairs in a way that no negative nor affirmative criticism comes from the patrofis or trustee. The greater part of our children get their notions of citizenship from this mediocre type of teachers. The pupils who come from the influences of the exceptionally successful eacher are usually progressive, en -rgetic, ambitious. ' Those who come from the influences of the failing teacher are often non-law-abiding, careless, selfish, garrulous, crAbit, f in-making citizens. The ' greater part of our citizenry emerges with the influences of the mediocre teacher coloring their lives throughout. They are quiet, easy-going, lawpeople willing to be guided bv the citizens emerging from the higher typed teacher. Jasper county has these three types of teachers in all of its parts. No school corporation can overpay the highest and best type of teatehers. Their influences pass on to posterity with growing momentum. Unfortunately the Influences of the failing type passes with equal momentum but In developing the bad in people. Such a teacher is overpaid when her teaching is gratis. The middle class is really the class that is played upon by the two other classes ,of its citizens. They are pliable, easiy ruled, com passionate, patriotic, self-support-ing and undisturbing. These subjects are lofty but the Jasper county board has the right to indulge dis cusslons upon them. This state-wide educational drive will awaken the

parents of children to the great Importance of the teacher In their fcome schools. Teachers will be moved to greater effort and school officials will automatically set higher standards when they employ teachers. Our future citizens will emerge from the educational environment that we make for them and we owe it to posterity to give these pljable, plastic, non-responsible, innocent children the best that is within our power. The Tefft teachers visited at Mt. Ayr and Fair Oaks last Tuesday.