180 THEISLAND ACADIANS

Students, teachers and visitors at the 1938 summer school held at the Convent in Miscouche.

to commend the spirit and generosity of the rate-payers in the French- Acadian districts in which there is no teacher but receives a supple- ment?*!.”

The French training of teachers assigned to Acadian schools still left much to be desired. The Board of Education was not the least bit interested in the matter. Most of the time the quality of teaching depended entirely on the personal drive and initiative of teachers who had their heart set on improving the way their mother tongue was taught*. In 1937, Professor Blanchard explained the situation in the following manner in his speech in Quebec city: