The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-03

principal OF school No. IS has 9s7 pupils TO .'super
Wise" and gets $4,000, OUT the principal Of School 70
scholars keep his oird'seye glance upon, receives
precisely the same and 50 does The principal OF
head master Of school No II, with as2 "why,"
said Comm issioner Stephen A. Walker yesterday, IN
discussing these monstrous discrepancies, Zone won
dcrs some OF these principals manage 10 pass
their lime, Tor you must remember that all
the teaching 10 done by the assistants" Indeed,
the whole subject oil teacners' salaries Is one chaos
In school No. 40 The tuition OF 706 pupils costs more
does the instruction Of over 900 scholars 10 No.
So and ye he latter school has % teachers while the
Grst has only % Similar instance. could be multi
piled. How the same grades OF assistants are un-
equally paid has already been illustrated, bu. II
quite u chance whether Inc lower Craze not better
paid than the higher. 10 Grammar school No. 40 the
ien receives SOFA whle The eleventh gets
$50 SILL In tie primary department oil tue same
schoo the salaries often run In scale IN rev. rise raio
10 the supposed merit OF The teacher. The seventh
assistant gets 1861; the sixth, beng higher receives
only $500 ana the third stiii TESS S6O9I In Primary
School No. ~. IN The iwenty-furth ward. the jaui-
more than the whole teacnini The nrst IS 1854 and
the latter only $3.50 IL Grammar sonool No As the
lucky jauilor got $l47 wniie The vice principal had
to content himself WIN $l,z0S
THE CAUSES OF THIS.
What has brought about thus almost incredible r.
regularity? The explanation Is this The Board OF
Education do not nix the saiaries Vi the individual
teachers They give whole amount Of salaries re-
CURED any school 10 the trustees OF that school Ia
a lump allowing certain average Tor each teacher
employed The trustees, within certain siig III mo a.
1cations are theu at liberty to distribute The gross
amount as they please Wheiner Il be true or NOT
thai these Inequalities are largely due to iavorts,n,
ac that IN ,w many =, i senoos cache che
ers getting $1,000 50, 900. while the rest,
perhaps equally deserving and eoo haraworSns,
most urgently needed III our pupiic schools, IN the
opinion oI Commissioner stephen A. Walker, super
lnte ndent Kiudie aud Others Is Uniform grading oil
the leacners' sa.aries Twce-n 1878 and last year
this measure attempted and failed, because Of the
opposition aroused BY The vested Interests tnas were
my, composed OF Messrs. Walker Workman and ood,
held meeting last evening az the College OF me Ciiy
OF New ORR, 20 discuss THIS very subject which IS
again TO be brought before the Board OF Education.
serious attempt is TO be made to establish Uniform
schedule oil salaries, based upon work performed and
length OF service TINS schedule which has the In
dorsement Of Superintendent Kidule instead oil re-
ducing Will increase the maJorry Of The smaller
salaries, aud still eject saving IN Topping on the
expensive excresceuces
THE PROPOSED SCHEDULE.
In the first place all principals are 10 DO paid accord
ing to the work performed to be measured by attend
anIe, 90 tuat the principals in charge OF l60 pupis
tending the education OF 300 THIS rule wis already
Bdopleu in February 1874 out In consideration oi the
'vested interests" Of the old principals provision
inserted In the bylaws oy which those principals
who had served Tor ten years previously should SIN
receive the maximum salary, $4,000 Principals,
with $50 pupils or less, are to receive $4,000; Of 15l
800 pupils 600 a0l TO 500 75o, ana tnose Ia
CHI .rge 500 upward the max mum pay OF 81, 700
The great discrepancy between Of the prim-
ary and The female grammar and between tns Iemale
and m lie grammar departments Is to be evelied, the
worK beng regarded as SUBSTANTIALLY OF the Same I'm
portance aud difficulty. Mr. Walker says u ~ generally
CLAIMED ~ ooys teachers that they should receive
because boys were harder 10 teacn but the act
that they generaiy pre- erred to teach boys The
grades OF salaries are be iollows-First graae
$3.50; second, $780, third, $500; fourth. $3.50; hth
$500 ra's Walker says. Souia RAISE .ns salaries
peariy half The teachers ~ me schools. aud espe-
cialy oil those III the primary department. which, al
prcsent, w tar lie worst paid. Inc elect upon
the disproportionately hgn salaries OF the male
grammar department would be to reduce them, aud
upon the iemais both 70 reaucs aud eQuaIze The
aala O. q
schedule, Is to De $500 per annum instead Of 5000 as
a. present. rssy are youD. sr,s 81 ssssn
pensalion Tor the first year would be ample" Tue
schedule may, o. couIs,. una.rgo considerable
but it all sides tuat some measure Tor
eQuazing the schooi teuchers salaries
upon iar basis the most important and the most
urgent reform awaiting The action OF the Board Of
Education.
In TINS connection the following abstract from the
nual report Oi superintendent Kiude for 1877 Will
be OF interest," The reforms Proposed were only par
italy covered by tue report submitted TO the Board OF
Education last Wednesday by the Committee on sals-
his repurt:-
But there organization Of the system
ad INSTR ton but also increasing It's efficiency
First among these l. tue constellation OF schools there is
schools psrtieu arly tie istte ranging
to nearly QUE Thousand Many Of THESE small schools
could ts consolidated in one OF three ways- ~ BY
al. eady done IL Grammar Schools Nos anu a.; G., by
sns s' anS u.s. % ana M s
in the new district Twsntys.ira ana twenty
vicinity OF othsr such the schools the Fourteenth
these several changes could be made
eacn ssins selected acsordns 70 special srs
its organization. and its efficiency e
servic Of conoersoe number Of supervising
cpal, iSua be dispense s with thar.
~ ws
there are ALSO seven schools with seven princpa
OF % puos Or more ynan double that OF
school Of tn departments under three prncpas wth
average rs Ereat NJ that OF the entire attend
The union o. primary grammar departments have
not ony to the economic but to ths efficient admin
istration OF the s,stem
also nuk be useful measure in the organization OF the
h sy SSe in msuv otssr cities Il rs exciusVsy
adopted There are at present in VI. city as The stats.
schools with an aggregate average sstendanes 81 100
nx in 100 to pupils some ., these
schools sexes are taught together IN the same class
Of the principals In ali cases y uniformly Avora.
ssa nc OF these Schools SissDn. and
ton, equal to that o. any others
Der OF maze than We dna ~ present some of
Schools 10 only even the higher and
shown thai this instruction can be given
waras ana in the schoos brooklyn and many oshsr
Cities exclusively female teachers do not, however,
the extreme measure Of abSn onng entirely
The emp oynent male asstwnts but OF reducing their
OF discont their services
classes OF low grade which DO taught better by
emaies
suggest ALSO the abolition Of the higher grades
small schools, because these schools
these GRADES sufficiently large
warrant their the large pense
incurred his wvuia have the effect practcaiy estab
sh ntermeaate schools. IN which there would .e
room pupils oi the lower grades and which cJuia
conducted considerably ie,s expense Besides, this
together the pupils OF higher grades, and
thus AXE and this part of the
1t effective, aud at u diminished Cost
hese several dations been suggested to
careful the present CONDITION Of
81 IN and of what Is fequired make
t act vuy effective great educate nal gent but
ore tsfaeto TO the people tor whose benefit 1t
established and by whose yearly contributions
IL is sustained
MILITIA TRANSFORMATIONS.