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WE NEED TEACHERS
^ 1 flipped the TV oo- the other day and the first thing I received was the three words above. And 1 thought that’s not news. Of course we do, always have, and always will unless somebody goes to bat #or"the school teachers.
1 (am not the smartest man in the worljl by a long shot, neither am 1 the dumbest one by the same ‘long shot,” but I can tell you »ome of the reasons why we need teachers. When a neighboring state takes a man from Virginia and gives him $2200 a year more to do the same identical wort in . {heir state, you don’t have to get a public accountant to figure the answer to that.
When a city in the same state is willing to pay $3600 a year to elementary teachers “with no experience,” you get the Same answer. "When a specialized teacher quits to take up bartering because he can make a bettet living at It, you tell. me tf»e answer. There is nothing wrong with barbering, a lot of good folks in that business, but it does not require four years getting a college degree to practice it, nor does it require going to summer school, spending what may have been saved (during the yea to improve that degree neces, . sary for an increase in salary— same answer.
I didn’t get these instances out of a book. They are real. I could give you many more. Someone will ask, “Is money' all the teachers are interested in?” No, if it was they would never have taken up teaching. i# the first place. But you know* that fellow down on the cornef who sells us groceries, the fellow up town who sells clothes, “the- -butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker” all seem to be interested in it when we call on flyrm. Oh well that’s enough on
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