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This one does not wish to study geogra are independent enough to hold each one to his proper place. It is the object to be popular with the patrons. The teachers are mostly chosen by a vote, as the trustee will not take the responsibility, and thus the teachers pander to the whims Under the above heading, in the phy; another does not wish to spend May No. of the Indiana School so much time in reading; another Journal, will be found an article wishes to be advanced to the next from Timothy Wilson, Superiatend-grade in arithmetic. Few teachers ent of Henry Co. It is brief and to the point, and expresses so well our views on the subject that we take the liberty of reproducing, in the TEACHER, the entire article, followed by some remarks of our own. Mr. Wilson says: "Many readers of our educational of parents. When trustees select journals, no doubt, think that the teachers suited to the peculiar conmajority of our country schools are ditions of each school, without unalready graded; but such is not the due interference by the parents, a fact. While it is admitted that the long step in the gradation of schools current sets strongly in that direc-will have been made. Let the teachtion, still a great work has to be er be responsible alone to the trustee done in educating teachers before for carrying out a thorough system this can be accomplished. A large of gradation. Let the trustee stand proportion of teachers do not know by the rules and regulations of the how to grade a school. In Henry county board of education. county, outside of the towns, there "Then the weak-kneed teacher are not ten well graded schools. must be brought to time. The Co. There are degrees of gradation from Supt. must enlist the zeal of the none at all up to a nearly perfect trustees for a good system. system. This is not the situation trustees must see the necessity of in Henry county alone; it is the employing teachers only who will same in all the surrounding coun- agree to grade their schools, and ties. A great many teachers keep when they fail to keep the contract, up their grades as far as the Fifth it must be terminated. Where there Reader, and then all system seems is a demand, there will soon be a to be lost; and why? Because here supply. they begin to meet with opposition The "When teachers find they cannot |