School Teacher
Replies to Mrs. Funderburk and Incidentally Asks a Few Questions
To the Editor of The
Journal—
In reply to a recent article published in The Journal about the fat salary paid to
our school teachers, I wish to ask the author of said article a few simple
questions. Have you ever taught school? Do you know anything about the real
work of the teacher? Have you formed your “opinion” of the school teacher from
some person who is pretending to teach, whom you happened to be intimately
acquainted with? Do you know that the best educated men of our country agree
that the nervous strain of one hour in the school room is equal to or more than
that of two hours in any other office work? Do you know that the work in the
school room is only half of the work of the teacher? Do you know that the real
teacher is studying and planning to make better citizens of your brother and
sister while you are sleeping and dreaming of some “opinion” to publish that
will keep them in blissful ignorance? Do you know that the trainers of dumb
brutes are paid many times the salary of the trainers of our boys and girls? Do
you know that the meager salary paid the teacher is causing many of our best
teachers to leave the profession? Do you know that the progress and stability
of our nation are in the hands of our teachers, the trainers of our boys and
girls?
These questions are submitted not for mere idle “opinion,”
but for study and thought.
--A School Teacher
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