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2. Professional journals and societies are too ezfor high-school teachers who make $1000 to pensive To the Editor: $1500 a year, in terms of the services they render. As a member of the large group of high-school teach3. Last, but most important in my mind, many of ers that were the target of your editorial in the January us have been content to base our work on what we had issue of the JOURNAL OF CHEMICALEDUCATION, I in Chem 108 or 305. We've either newer been challaged want to say Amen, to your insinuations and sugges- or we'we missed the boat, so that we're content to use our fifteen-year-old texts and older ideas and not meet tions. This is my fifth year of teaching, just chemistry, the demands of many of our students. Our backotherwise I don't think I'd still be in this field. I am ground has been too limited. I havapractice students still shocked by the juvenile questions some of my from the local teachers college and am made more concolleagues ask of men in their field a t state conventions scious with every term that I was fortunate in having and professiotlal meetings. I'd be ashamed of my more when I began my chemistry teachings, than they pupils if they asked such stuff and have long been have. How they get along I can only guess. Much wondering why this is true. of what their pupils will get will be in spite of the Your editorial strikes a t some of the basic reasons teacher and not because of him. . . . but I believe there are others, not that they justify us W. G. KESSEL WILEYHIGASCHOOL . as teachers but they do exist. TERRE HAUTE. INDIANA 1. Chemistry teachers' interests are divided, not only as to teaching and chemistry but to many other P.S. I read the article "Origin and Transformation of Carbohydrates in Plants." fields.
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