New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-15
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School rEAcHERSINDIGYANE
TREY OBJECT sTRENUOUsLY TO TUE APPOINT
MENT OF MISS M'CATFEY As PRIN'
CIPAI, OVER THEM.

THEY OBJECT srRENUoUsLY TO TUE APPOINT
3 MENT OF MISS M'CATFERY As PRIN'
CIPAL OVER THEM
The teachers In the girls department OF Grammar
sch'pl No. - indignant over the aeuon VI
the Board Of school Trustees OF the Twenty "aF3
I'm nominating -.iss Catherine G. McCarery as prinp
c,pal of that school Miss McCaRery Is the vice.
principal the girls department in Grammar schoei
No. 49, which Is also without principal I's
teachers Of Grammar school No. Ia say that II 10
violation Of all precedent to nke teacher from
school promote her Ovei the heads OF teachers
in another school which is well supplied With teacnes
who have stood in the line Of promotion from t"env
to thirty five years Tie teachers at No Ia rcqueseo
the school trustees reconsider the noninauon u
Miss McCaNery but met with nut reiusa'' -
were told that Il would be useless TO sfuGgie asasS
the decision Of the trustees In this mater as No
power on earth could change it, ON receiving TINS
answer the teachers OF No. IA prepared an appeal
which they intended present to the Board OF EAucS
tion but, as one of them said TO II Tribune FPor.es
yesterday: "We were afiad to send IN" appear u" i~'
we feared IL would cost rs ON positions. ie 'uS'oe
could make so uncomfortable for u, that we wooie
be Obliged ~ resign"
The present Board of school Trustees OF this ware
have been IN existence about Two months. Z. Eefy
Anderson resigned his place Oh this board about
year ago. and owing 10 some dsparnghs remarks nAes
about them the remaining trustees, VINO were JOIN
j. Eiker Andrew q. ASnew, Gilbert NJ. .pcir' lr', ans
James r. Steers, jr, resm cd also. The new scnoo1
trustees are Frederick L. Jennings Payson herril'
Dr. McCrcary, Edward Bell and Robert ,tui5is
Miss Caroline +. Whiting who has been the prin'
cipal Of Grammar school No. Ia hity-hyc years. sno
who has been teacher there ifty-seven years. 10
signed at the end Of the last school year and the
place has been vacant since that time. Whcn. Miss
Whiting celebrated her bftieth anniversary As p1n'
cIpa Of this school five years ago she intended to
| ROSIE hu cha was highly esteemed by Gil UeY
subordnates and they urged her strongly to retain
her place that she continued at the head OF tne
school until Inst fall. Miss Gertrude l.. simpson
the vice principal has served In the school more than
twenty years. and Of late her health has been poor.
Miss Aida J. woolley, who ranks next to her, does
not wish to be principal. but there are other goa
teachers below her who have been i'll the school n0s
less THIN twenty years, and Of them many years
than that.
one Of the teachers said 10 Tribune reporter yes
terday: Il cannot tell you how badly our teachers
feel about this matter II has broken orr hearts.
Nothing in the history OF the school has caused -
much pai. There has not been a promotion u
amount to anything In No. IA for fifteen years. and
most Of us have BEEN In that school longer than
TINT On the other hand Grammar School NO. ~
has had great many promotions. The place OF pran'
cipa In that school is vacant. and the school trustees
knew 1t wien they nominated Miss McCafers to be
ri H1 en our s Is riding e. esss
to be pindral Q. No. 40. BY making per principal
a double promotion to the teachers OF No. AZ At our
expense. 1t Is great Ia lsiice 70 Us. Our scnool
mas had a better record than No. 49, which plainly
shows that our teachers quite competent to SIC
coed each other
From another source II was learned that number
| OF parents had taken their children from Grammar
school No. 40 because OF their dislike Of MISS NC
porter: :" took my daughter from No. ~ because she
was about enter Miss McCaferS's class. -, That
teacher has a temperament the influence OF Which
do not care to have my daughter sibjccte1.' {"