Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1903 — The Jordan School Difficulty. [ARTICLE]

The Jordan School Difficulty.

Mr. Editor:— Having read the partly untruthful statement in the Journal concerning my son, I feqj it my duty to correct the errors and make a few explanations. It is altogether untrue that he is fifteen years old. His exact age is thirteen years and nine months and he is very small for bis age. Equally untrue is it that he had been expelled from school. The majority of the patrons were dissatisfleld with the way school was progressing before Christmas and reported to the trustee, John Bill. He and the superintendent had a talk with her, the substance of which we do not know. However, during the holiday week, she came here with a paper begging for a trial month, saying she must teach this school out or she would never get another, that it would kill her mother, etc. She further said she knew she had done wrong but thought she could do better. Out of sympathy, I signed it, as did the others that were dissatisfied. Things went on worse than before and when the month was up she did not quit, consequently seven families of which mine was one removed their children from school and notified the trustee to that effect, It was some time after this that the trouble occurred. She had been partial to Jerry until she found he bad told me of some of her unladylike talk and conduct and after that “he wae the worst boy in school”. (?) The statement some have made that' he has nearly broken up two or three schools we can prove is not true. While I regret most sincerely that trouble has occurred from our quarter and while, as most people know, I never upheld my children in misconduct either in school or out of it, yet, I wish the public to know the truth that although Jerry is much to blame, there certainly would have been no such trouble without something else back

of it.

GEORGE TULLIS.