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(Continued from page 2) the Longwood English faculty, writes in the October issue of the * Virginia English 'Bulletin that “it is not unusual to find teachers of other subjects in the public schools being given an English class just to ‘fill’.” He adds that English and social studies “were the only two fields excluded from the State teaching scholarship program for the next biennium.” This despite the serious shortage of well-trained English teachers.
The explanation for theh failure of the authorities to make English teachers eligible for State teaching scholarships can only be that the teaching of English is considered less important than the teaching of other subjects. It would be interesting to learn what subject is deemed more essential to school pupils than a knowledge of their own language—home economics, shop work, vocational agriculture? | Important as these latter subjects are, the exclusion of English from the scholarship program, and the generally cavalier manner in which English teachers are being kicked around by school authorities wquld seem to Indicate a* lamentable lack of appreciation of the subject's importance.
As Dr. Ball said in his column last Sunday, “the blight of the immediately practical has fallen upon all the arts.” He went on to declare:
Perhaps we shall breed a race of atomic scientists, and, perhaps, in a few more years, the run-of* the-mine high school graduate will be able to take apart and reassemble it blindfolded, but that these same bright geniuses will be capable of reading a page of English prose or poetry with either comprehension or pleasure is, to say the least, highly doubtful.
Dr. Ball's alarming observations are commended to our “educationists” for their prayful consideration.
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