Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-14
A TEACHERS BUREAU.
Its Manager Explains How Its Affairs Al
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Its Manager Explains How Its Affairs Are
Conducted.
Chatting with a Chicago Neics reporter as
to the work done by his agency, the man.
ager said: sour whole purpose, of course, is
to provide teachers with schools and schools
with teachers, and think we are fairly
successful These teachers bureaus have
now been in existence for about twenty
years. Schermerhorn in New York was
the first to develop the idea, and similar
institutions have been established in all the
large cities. There is registration fee
charged and a commission when a vacancy
is secured, and these produce such a
revenue that the business is fairly profit
able one. / suppose we find places for at
least two hundred teachers year through
this bureau"
SHOW do you go about doing itl''
ave try to get early and accurate infor-
nation about all vacancies throughout the
country and TO so classify our teachers that
we can almost always recommend the right
person to the right place. The business is
simple enough once you have the country
wen covered with correspondents. We do
not make any examination of the teachers
who apply to US, but we do examine their
references and find out something about
them before we recommend them"
Most of your clients go, suppose, into
private schools!''
"a great many of them do"
What do the private schools payl"
That depends on the school Most of the
private schools have two or three first-class
teachers who are paid very well, and others
who help out in the work at smaller salaries.
In Chicago, forinstance, some of the schools
pay $500 year and board, and $500 a year
and board, which latter they hold to be
Il 80 1.
TO say that in the good private schools teach
ers' salaries range from 500 to $1,000 for
competent persons"
q Out in the country how do wages go!"
They range so differently In different
places that il would be impossible to state
hgure-from 500 year up would be the
closest estimate / would like to make"
And are positions easy to gett'
"As easy as in any other calling if the
teacher goes about it the right way''
with the experience that you have had,
do you consider teaching vocation which
1t is advisable for young woman TO take
upi"
Il certainly do. / consider it the best
work which an educated girl can find
There are limitations, of course, but if a
young woman knows how to maintain dis
cipline. and can do the work l don't
teacher is always received in good society.
Her work, while it is exhausting, has its
imits-six hours day and five days in the
week-and it is a matter Of fact that school
teachers as a rule marry early and marry
better than any other class of educated
women"
Have you any statistics on that pointf'
mo. But I'm convinced that the average
school life OF the lady teacher is not more
than two years There are some places,
particularly in Wisconsin and Colorado
where we can't put in teachers rapidly
enough. They are always marrying of and
resigning. Why, there are school districts
In Colorado where the directors insist on
having the photograph of the applicant sent
on before they will make any engagement.
The girl goes out and the next thing hear
she has married one of the directors or some
farmer in the neighborhood. And this is
natural enough, too, you will only think
OF it. Women of the right sort are scarce
in the West. A girl who has education
enough and grit enough to go out there and
make her own living is just the kind of
girl to make somebody a good wife, and
those fellows are not slow to find that out,
either. / sent one young lady West short
time ago, and I'm just as sure that will
hear about her marrying one of the school
directors and that will get another appli-
cation for teacher for that school in a
short time as l am that am talking to you
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