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Virginia English Teachers
Desene Better Treatmnet
(Theh following editorial is
reprinted from the Richmond
Times-Dispatch of December
19, 1952).
Dr. Lewis F. Ball, professor of English at the University of Rich* mond, whose book column enlivens and enriches our Sunday Book Page, issued a pungent jeremiad last Sunday concerning the possibilities that ‘'we are rearing a generation of illiterates."
To anyone who strives to teach English in college (he wrote), the results are painfully apparent. Rare is the freshman who can either read or write effectively, In a desperate effort to salvage some of the weakest of them, sections in remedial English are set up and reading clinics are organized. Parents expect the college to accomplish in six months what the schools have failed to do in 12 years. . .
Dr. Ball is not alone in his feeling that English instruction in many elementary and high schools is most inadequate. College teachers in this and other states have been saying so for a long time.
It is encouraging, therefore, that the Virginia Association of Teachers of English and the Language Arts Teachers of Northern Virginia are both trying to do something about the situation. This is due, in no small measure, to the leadership of such dedicated and effective English teachers as Miss Mary G. Lambert, of John Marshall High School, Richmond, president of the Virginia Association of Teachers of English, and Foster B. Gresham, of Lane High School, Charlottesville, editor of the association’s official publication, the Virginia English Bulle
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