100 Years Ago
BUCKS JURY SIDES WITH TEACHER STEINER â It was alleged that on April 19, 1920, while Louis R. Hunt was a student attending the Grammar school in Trumbauersville, Principal Steiner in great anger seized young Hunt and broke his leg in two places, after which he threatened to throw him out of the school building . Steiner told how young Hunt had missed 14 out of 20 words in his lesson. He was supposed to stay in at recess time and write these words on the blackboard, but he did not, said Steiner. I was told he bragged to boys during recess that he would not write them on the blackboard, as he had been ordered to do as a punishment. I was provoked at the time I attempted to pull him from his seat, but I was not angry . After deliberating one hour and 50 minutes, the jury cleared Principal Steiner. The case is a test case to show what authority a teacher has with a pupil.Â