From the Academy: Teachers’ Tenure

row the eeny RUSSELL KIRK Teachers’ Tenure

Some months ago, in this page, I gave an account of the admirable statement of school policy drawn up by the school board of Ferndale, Michigan. Since then, the Ferndale school board has had trouble with the educationist hierarchy, as was to be expected, and has been roundly denounced by the Michigan Education Association’s journal. But the board’s statement and policies, intended to bring about . a return to genuine intellectual dis- ciplines, have won public approval: for both of the “traditionalist” can- didates for the school board were vic- torious in the recent school elections, and the board now consists entirely of “traditionalists’—the designation conferred upon them as an epithet by their Progressive adversaries (who call themselves, of all things, “Real- ists”!)

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Russell Kirk

row the eeny RUSSELL KIRK Teachers’ Tenure

Some months ago, in this page, I gave an account of the admirable statement of school policy drawn up by the school board of Ferndale, Michigan. Since then, the Ferndale school board has had trouble with the educationist hierarchy, as was to be expected, and has been roundly denounced by the Michigan Education Association’s journal. But the board’s statement and policies, intended to bring about . a return to genuine intellectual dis- ciplines, have won public approval: for both of the “traditionalist” can- didates for the school board were vic- torious in the recent school elections, and the board now consists entirely of “traditionalists’—the designation conferred upon them as an epithet by their Progressive adversaries (who call themselves, of all things, “Real- ists”!)