Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-02-08
Communicated.

By themselves and with the teachers ana oAtt4f
consult upon affairs connected with the interests
Of the SCHOOLS as often as the circumstances seem
to make il necessary you can call their meet
incs stated or unstaed as von please
The Superintendent by virtue Of his office IS
chairman Of the School Board. It's executive Off
Ger. and ii is his duty to carry out and enforce
their regulations, and more energetic and faith
fol one than the present incumbent We never
had-at the same time We ask 4Ir. Citizen 70
point out enc single instance in which he has
. shouldered more than his share Of the re-
possibility.
2nd. The members Of the school Board are
industrious men, and have otheE pursuits from
which to gain livelihood than smeudgipg
from the school funds asking pay for keeping
2 registry Of their own official proceedings, and
do deem 1t necessary to employ a clerk To
keep the recor,isfand perform such other duties
rs they may from time to lime pointout. They
have absolute right so to do, from the power
conferred by the City Charter, and also have a
right to pay such salary as they consider rea-
sonabIc-the account of which is finally audited
by the City Council
Sd What number Of pupils Mr.. Citizen has
fixed upon rs sufficient for ono teacher TO in
struct we know not, bat we cheerfully inform
him, what he can readily ascertain by visiting
the schools, that there are nearly 800 pupils reg
istered-true they are somewhat Irregular in
their Attendance, which makes the process OF
teaching much more laborious-nork enough
for four ike teachers, when we consider tie APP
pliances with which they have to work, and II
it ever was necessary 10 employ two male and
two female teachers it certainly is now.
Is it necessary to pay each Of the former so
per month and OF the latter So per month
Teachers of free and select schools in adjoining
towns and other counties receive, males $525 TO
$50 per month, females from SO to $50 per
month. We believe that the
City in order to secure good teachers should pay
them liberal salaries, but there Is common
standard to be found in the times for the COM
pensaton in this as in other occupations, and We
unable to see in what respect the public IN
terest IS promoted by paying 500 and S25 per
meath for services which the same pegsen or
Others equally competent would gladly perform
for $50 to So per month"
There is a little truth in the above bat "a great
deal of CANNON. In reply we beg leave to state
that come OF the teachers now employed have
received full as encouraging offers rs they are
obtaining here, to so and teach in towns in
other counties' That some of them have taught
private and select schools in this place and made
even more thar $50 per month, and should they
choose to leave the free schools and enter the
private field they might prove 10 be unwelcome
competitors to all such who value their services
only at SIS or Sl2 per month. The class of
cheap teachers referred to who gladly work
from $l5 to S25 per month may be . class Of
students endcavoriag TO obtain funds to all them
in getting AN education, and sometimes it hap
pens that they learn while their pupils lea.-u
). Or perhaps who drive oxen all summer and
children all winter using the same appliances
and intelligence in each pursuit Or like the
far famed teacher of Widow Bedott or Mrs Part
ington. who : arted out with halter in one
hand and gad IN the other, bouad to catch a
horse or teach a school
Now We propose to show that Mineral Point
is as far behind ia properly compromising her
teachers as she IS furnishing them suitable build
ings to work in.
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