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[begin crossed out]highest average of any of the K Fayetteville teachers. The prin-
cipal, E. E. Smith, has assured me that J. G. Smith was very help-
ful to him in the general management of the school. For these
reasons, I concluded it might be well to keep J. G. Smith in the
school.[end crossed out]

^(Some) [begin crossed out]On or two[end crossed out] of the teachers at Winston fell short of the
required average, but their deficiency was on subjects they do not
teach and will not have to teach. So by agreement with the
local board they ^(were) [begin crossed out]will be[end crossed out] continued on probation.

^(At Elizabeth City all of the teachers passed satisfactory examinations,)
It is absurd to me to think of having normal teachers,
who are expected to train young men and women how to teach,
when these normal teachers, so called, have not scholarship enough
to pass a creditable examination on the common school branches.
I dont think the local boards are responsible for these incompetent
teachers ever being elected in these schools. These boards have
heretofore necessarily depended on th4e recommendations of the
ppincipals of these schools. The principals never examined the
applicants, but recommended the election of such teachers as they
knew personally or were well recommended to them. I, therefore,
think your order that all teachers in these normals should stand a
satisfactory examination under the Superintendent of the Colored
Normal Schools before they could enter upon their duties an excel-
lent requirement, and already it is manifest that such a require-
ment will soon eliminate all incompetent persons from the faculties
of these institutions. It is my determination, if I remain your
Superintendent, to drop all these teachers next year that have
failed to stand a satisfactory average examination this year,
unless they do better at the next examination. Teachers who do not
know how to think themselves cannot train their pupils to think.

I give a few samples of questions and answers:
^([Question: ???]) Use the following words correctly in sentences : great, grate,
awful, offal, alter and altar.
Ans. 1. The offal was at five o'clock.
2. The alter was draped in white.
3. She will alter her dress.