Mrs. Blount, the 6th grade teacher at Scout’s school, is a
veteran teacher. When the newcomer, Miss Caroline, comes to the school straight out of
college (and as an outsider in the Maycomb community), Mrs. Blount probably doesn’t have
much faith in Miss Caroline’s abilities. When Miss Caroline’s class begins to get a
little rowdy over Scout’s seemingly disrespectful behavior, Mrs. Blount chastises Miss
Caroline about the noise they are making. She says that their noise and laughter is
disrupting her class from learning. Mrs. Blount is also probably suspicious of Miss
Caroline because she teaches the Dewey Decimal System, a new educational strategy at
that time.
Overall, Mrs. Blount is not too welcoming to
the new teacher, Miss Caroline, and like Scout, probably doesn’t care for her new
learning techniques and ignorance as to how to teach children in
Maycomb.
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