Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-25
PAY OF FRENCH TEACHERS.

The Cemressstioa Edacsted Women Re.
ceive In the schools Of France.
In France the teaching profession Is
much overstocked. For private teaching
no diploma is required, but practically it
is needed, for teacher with diploma Is
always preferred. Ladies are sometimes
attached to large scholastic establishments
solely for the purpose Of receiving the re-
latives Of the pupils. For their services
they are paid fifty francs month and
their board.
Secretaries and readers are paid from 100
(<sO) to 800 (tdO) francs month. Their
hours are long and their duties fatiguing.
Interpreters get two francs an hour. For
the post of interpreter the candidate must
get herself into good relations with the
hotels, for it is here that their services arc
chiefly required.
In lower class Of life respectable women
can earn ten or fifteen francs n month by
taking children out for a walk every day
and thus relieving hard worked mothers
and saving them the expense of n nurse.
These women are not, properly speaking,
teachers, but they often talk some foreign
language, and arc often required to do so
in order that their little charges may gain
practice.
The public schools are divided into pri-
mary, secondary and superior. In the pri.
mary the best posts to be obtained are those
of inspectors. There arc i've inspectors of
boarding schools and five of infant schools.
Tho salary is u minimum of 1000 francs
$500 year, and a maximum OF j, 500 francs
Sl,1OO), with bi-anuual rise OF 500 francs
ka liner, a<~$D LA .fv.
francs $500 a year for extra expenses. In
Paris itself there are six inspectors of girls
primary schools and three OF infant schools.
The salary is 1900 francs ri, s0O q year. in
Guiding expenses.
There is also an inspector of the class for
bookkeeping and modern languages, in
which the salary, together with the ex-
pcnscs, amounts to 1890 francs 81 ,440l. and
one post of inspector of schools for dress
making and cutting out. These schools
are in the suburbs of Paris, and the salary
is :, 900 francs 5000 year. The applicants
must be thirty years Of age at least and
thirty-ii at most, and must hold the high
est diploma.
They can all receive pensions, calculated
after the rules applied TO the employees OF
the prefecture Of the Seine, that is, after
thirty years StfNiSc lucy NAV q Tic 10
pension equal to half their salary. This
sum is deducted from their salaries at the
rate of 20 per cent. The teachers in primary
schools must also hold the highest diplo-
mas, except in the infant schools, which re-
quirc simple diploma and certificate of
aptitude. Here the salaries for the teach
es are from Zoo $500 to 900 francs
(s50O); for the directresses, from 2, $50 $3.50
to 500 francs tS1JO).
Promotion can only be obtained after
three years Of service, and becomes right
after five Good posts are those Of adult
school teachers, there being seventeen
schools for adult women in Paris. There
ore sixty drawing schools throughout Paris
and the provinces, but the salary Of the
teachers here is not fixed by governments
These schools are excellent. and very good
places In which to begin the study of art.--
New York Sun