The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-01-22
Tenchers, WMges.

Teachers wages.
Editor Register. A few months ago.
noticed an article in your paperto
this effect. "The poorest paid people
in the State are the school teachers
and as no one said anything about
it until an article appeared in your
paper from your correspondent at
Little Sixteen, saying he thought
school teachers got FIVE dollars per
month too much now. ! endorse his
assertion and say his "head's level
and which | will endeayor to show
before / am done. / do not want to
be understood as being opposed free
education or free schools. For anyone
Iknow, that says anything against
teachers wages is branded as being
opposed to free schools.
You never heard q school teacher
say he got wages enough, and you
never will. But let some one speak
in his favor and say he don't get wa
ges enough, and you will hear them
say he is a sound free school man.
Shortly after the article from Lit,
tie Sixteen appeared, B. Janton, the
Upper Flats correspondent, rushed
lin. print, and attempted to show
Little Sixteen how to reason. lie
said: The carpenter, with but little
learning, receives from $3.50 to s25(
per day, and works six days in the
week and gets his board free; land th'
coal digger gets So per day, and s.
on; and then he comes to the farm
hands, whom he claims gets rs cent
a day and board-S2.50 in money
and S1.30, making 1886 for his labo
, in year. He don't know anythin
: about farming or else he would no
make such wild calculations. | ar
t willing to let the farmers settle thai
t Farmers last year paid $40 with
4 out board, and this year they pa
: only SIS per month, without board
i | wonder how B. Janton would Xix
J a law to be prssed giving the carper
e ter, coal digger and farm hand
Christmas, New-year, Fourth Of Ju
. . ly and Fast Days,saying they shout
!, not work on those days, but their en-
" rlnSers ehnlIld uay them all the SAME
: ! dare say he'd think it very vi
. just law, and so it would be. But
y that not now the case with schoc
= teachers. Examine the school la,
/ and seeif it don't do that very thinl
d pay them for these holidays. An
; more, it says if they attendthe Inst
:. tutes, they only have to teach 2
d days for month, when the law say
& % days is a school month. 1t
IS right that the children should hay
{. holidays, but it is an injustice to I'll
h taxpayer to pay teachers for doin
e nothing. 1t is just throwing ava
y that much money and robbing tn
: children of the benefit of it. Iftcact
q ers want to attend Institutes, Ii
Is them foot the bill, and not the to,
t: payers.
d This is one reason that / say TIL
4 school teachers get too much pay
4 Another is, they get too much pa
lie for occupying the school.room on.
d about six or seven hours a day, j
'e Guiding play-time and two recesse
10 which would make about FIVE hou
at they are engaged in instructing IL
ID children. If any one would tai
u. the trouble to make the calculatio
a they would be surprised at Il
De amount Of money given away year
e. to school teachers. / think it won
ID amount to more than our portion
le the State school fund, and nothlr
received in return.
ee In conclusion, Mr. Editor, inste,
IN of their being the poorest paid" pc
1T pie in the State, they are the on
III favored class that we have
n. ARBUCKLE.
re January 18th 1879.
= Meeting Of Oyerseers OF Poor
~ THERE will be Special Meeting Of the Board
WI nv..e.a.a NJ The Dnne foe Mason Ta,,n,,, n,