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We Fling Down The Gauntlet
(Editor's Note—This article from the NEA Journal, April 1953, was sent from Front Royal. The sender failed to give his name. The article is copied, stream-lined spelling and all.)
During the last political campaign, many extravagant charges concerning our schools were made, including the charge of failure to teach the fundamentals such as reading, spelling, and history. When this charge was repeated in our community, we of the school staff decided to do something.
With the approval of principals, teachers and pupils, we challenged officers and directors of leading local Organizations to match their information against teams of pupils in various grades and subjects.
In most cases the challenge was accepted. The first contest was between the PTA and a tenth-grade team in spelling. An overflow crowd witnessed the event, conducted by our county superintendent of schools. The tenthgraders triumphed by a score of 10-12. The PTA officers did well until they
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