Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

Lewis Hylan, Betsy Thomas, Georgia Scott, Rus Foad, Maggie Swingler, Mary Cary, Ida Jackson, and Anna Cary to Mr. Blair, undated

| Education--teaching | Place--Esmont, VA | Politics and political activity

A group of school children request a new teacher, because, they claim, their old one is mean and does not care whether or not they learn.

To: B.F. Yancey
Esmont, Va.

Mr. Blair

we dezier you to pleas give us a nother teacher for a nother year we have had this man now for near a year & I think that is long enough & he has did us all the good he can now & he don't care whether we learn then any thing or not & he tell the children that if they dont Learn he gets his mony just the same & that he has

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been teaching long enough to draw his pension with out teaching & some ?fairly? be treat all write & other he dont so one month a mom that has no respectful children in school that treat all a like so we are the ?one? sign We ?petition? for a nother teacher

Lewis ?Hylan?
Betsy Thomas
Georgia Scott
?Rus? ?Foad?
Maggie Swingler
Mary Cary
Ida Jackson
Anna Cary

Published by: Virginia Center for Digital History

Source copy consulted: Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family (MSS 11599), Alderman Library, University of Virginia

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