The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-09-03
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! give their teachers a salary of only S25 or
/ ST per month, Cambria county does her
/ duty nobly. She does all she can. Yet
/ when she has done her best, the salaries
paid aranot sufficient to induce we'll quail
flied persons to remain in the profession
longer than till they can get something
! else to do.
2. The shortness of our school terms
adds to this trouble. But very few of
our districts are able to keep their schools
open longer than the minimum four months
required by the law This fact, added to
the small average salaries paid for the time
the scl9ols are open, is enough TO retard all
real I-raiss'fssss.
3. H5zt perhaps the greatest difficulty is
found - the fact that our directors too
| frequently ignore the qualifications ofteach-
ers, and pay the same wages to all This
is a most unwise as well as unjust manner
of doiag. In no other business is an APP
prentice or novice paid the same wages as
Il frst-class hand though he may work just
as many hours in q day, work at the same
| kind Of labor, and work just as faithfully.
Skill and experience should be rewarded.
| Yet IN teaching, the man who has had the
| experience of years in the school room
properly qualify himself for his duties, re-
ceiyes Just the same wages as the young
| lad e- miss who has perhaps never taught
school BEFORE and who has just managed
| 10 get a very inferior certificate. Any per-
son can see the injustice of this.
! V.-9EEASURES CALCULATED TO PROMOTE
IMPROVEMENT.
The first and second Of the difficulties
under which we labor, can be properly
remedied only by more money. And we
hayn't got any more money. Cambria
county now pays higher rate of taxation
than any other county in the State. She
does this eheerfully, because the educa-
ton OF her children is the one object near
est to her heart. And where is the money
to come from We think that money for
the support Of public schools should be
levied by an eqUalized rate of taxation over
tIr State.
It is believed that by an equalized rate
of taxation Of 10 mills on the dollar, a
sufficient sum OF money could be raised to
keep the schools of the commonwealth
open months in the year, and pay $50
Per mouth and better wages for proper
-eEiaeo3y shorter terms and when we take
into consideration the higher valuation o1
real estate as fixed by the last triennial as
sessnlent the large increase in our popU
lation, and the consequent larger per cap
Eta tax, and the greatly enlarged State ap
: preparation hereafter to be made, it j;
believed that our schools could be kept
: open six months IN the year, and oul
r teachers paid salaries according to then
l qualifications Of from $40 TO $40 pei
month.
The remedy for obstacle No. 3, will sug
5 gest itself There is not a school director
| in Cambria county who viii not see tht
: manifest injustice and impropriety Of th'
present plan 1t is hoped that they vii
adopt measures to obviate it. 4 fair rat,
2 of wages should be made the standard fo
medium certificates that would average
from 2 to q then for certificates tha
would average better than this, let then
pay say FIVE dollars month more, and 70
those that would average worse, 50 less
In this way it would not cost a distric
: much if any more than by the present wa
= OF giving medium wages to all ai&e-no
at least unless they should get all gooc
1 teachers, and then they should be willin2
l TO pay little more. In this way the.
would encourage our teachers to excellence
5 they would reward merit, and they would
do what they profess to be SO desirous o
doing, fill their schools with competent an'
g deserving teachers.