Addresses Before The Rural Education Section Of The New York State Teachers Association

Author : Andrew Sloan Draper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330162538
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Addresses Before the Rural Education Section of the New York State Teachers Association written by Andrew Sloan Draper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses Before the Rural Education Section of the New York State Teachers Association You have been appointed superintendents of the rural schools. There are two hundred and seven of you, almost twice as many superintendents as there were school commissioners. The old districts were generally so large that real supervision was impossible, even if the old law had contemplated it, which it did not. Putting two districts where there was one before is an important factor in increasing the efficiency of supervision. That gives the superintendent a much better chance to do something worth while, but whether he does it or not depends upon himself. The Education Department expects much of each, and will do all it can to help each to do conspicuously good work; it will censure a superintendent for indifference and will remove him for wilfully or ignorantly violating either the letter or the spirit of the new law. This is plain language, but plain language is best. It would be absurd to characterize it as a menace or a threat. It is in the interest of two hundred and seven officials whom the law places under my supervision, every one of whom starts out with my confidence and carries with him my good wishes. It is for the sake of a perfect understanding. I have my responsibility as well as you yours. What I say is in the discharge of that responsibility. It is well to be much more explicit and to tell you in detail what the Education Department expects of you. In the first place it expects that you will be free and independent school superintendents. It can not be said too often that the common schools are to be kept free from all political or denominational partisanship. Officers of the schools are to assert this and exemplify it. They are to bar out everything to which any patron of the schools can justly object. Above all, they are not to descend to any course of partisan conduct to which fifty, or twenty, or one per cent of the people may be conscientiously opposed. They are to attend to the schools very exclusively. The plain English of this is that they are not to help run political machines; they are not to do political work for leaders or committees. They are to hold their own opinions and vote as they please, but they are not to make themselves obnoxious to any by exerting any influence of their position as superintendent of schools to effect nominations or get votes for a ticket on election day. The school organization is to offend none; it is to count upon the support of all. This is at once sound principle and good policy. You will be expected to regard it conscientiously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.