1280 . Rural School Leaflet 



i. A code of professional ethics is being formulated and if adopted by 

 the association next November at the Syracuse meeting, the teacher as a 

 professional or occupational entity will necessarily rise to a higher standard. 



2. A revitalized State organization promises to give every teacher in 

 the State a professional consciousness — a feeling of pride in the teacher 

 as a class. 



3. A permanent secretary will give continuity of policy to the State 

 Association and will make possible a bureau of professional information 

 on which both teacher and school official 'may make demands. 



4. A truly representative State Association, enrolling not eight per 

 cent of the entire body of teachers of the State, but at least eighty per 

 cent, if not one hundred per cent — a truly representative State Associa- 

 tion will be able to conserve the individual teacher's rights as against 

 the unreasonable rural trustee or the village and ward politician. This 

 will be reasonable tenure of office and will likewise protect the city against 

 the evil of keeping the inefficient teacher in office. 



5. High professional and ethical standards will inevitably give the 

 teacher social and professional dignity and will place the school where 

 it rightfully belongs, side by side with the church and the state. 



It remains for the teachers of the State of New York to support their 

 State Association loyally and with enthusiasm. Let every school teacher 

 unite in some local organization of teachers, district, village, or city. 

 You have already been offered an opportunity for such association. If 

 there is one reader of these lines who has not been invited to join some 

 such local unit of the State Association, he or she should write freely 

 to the President of the New York State Teachers' Association, Schenectady, 

 New York. 



Editors' note: 



Mr. Brubacher's efforts in behalf of the teachers of New York State 

 are so fundamental and essential, if the standard of the teaching profes- 

 sion is to be raised, that we asked him to send a message to teachers in 

 this publication. Inertia has defeated many a strong movement. We 

 hope that the seriousness of the need for developing the teaching profes- 

 sion will lead to definite effort on the part of each individual. 



There is in our office a report of the meeting of the New York State 

 Teachers' Association held at Buffalo last November. This work con- 

 tains the viewpoint of some of our strongest educators. Every teacher 

 should have this work, and a membership fee of fifty cents has placed 

 it in the hands of all who have joined the New York State Teachers' 

 Association. This report is of special value to the teachers who arc not 

 able to attend the annual meetings of the association. 



