Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-07-16
Pay OF FRENCH TEACHERS.
The Conpensation Educated woraen Re
ceive In the Schools OF France.

The Conpensation Educated Women Re
ceive I'm 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 a month and
their board.
Secretaries and :eaders are paid from 100
(so0) to 800 (S6O) 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 q lower class Of life respectable women
can earn ten or fifteen francs a month by
taking children out for a walk every day
and thus relieving hard worked mothers
and saving them the expense of a nurse
These women are not, properly speaking,
teachers, but they often talk some foreign
language, and are 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 are five inspectors of
boarding schools and five of infant schools.
The salary is minimum of 1900 francs
$500 year, and maximum of $500 francs
Isl, ,100, with bi-annual rise of 500 francs
($100). The inspectors also receive 500
francs (S100) year for extra expenses. La
Paris itself there are six inspectors of girls
primary schools and three of infant schools
The salary is 6,0O0 francs (s1, ,200) year, in
cluding expenses.
There is also an inspector of the class for
bookkeeping and modern languages, in
which the salary, together with the ex.
penses, amounts to 1900 francs Isl ,44O), 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 5000 francs 5000 a year. The applicants
must be thirty years of age at least and
thirty-five 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, aftel
thirty years. service they have the right tt
apension 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
quire simple diploma and certificate o.
aptitude Here the salaries for the teach
ers are from l 800 $4,000 to $500 francs
$500; for the directresses, from 2,750 $3.50
to $500 francs (S750.
Promotion can only be obtained after
three years of service, and becomes righ
after five. Good posts are those of adul
school teachers, there being seventeen
schools for adult women in Paris. Their
are sixty drawing schools throughout Pari
and the provinces, but the salary of thu
teachers here is not fixed by government
These schools are excellent. and very goot
places in which to begin the study of art
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