The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-09

HOBOKEN SCANDAL.
Disgraceful Conduct of a
Ianitor in Public School
No. q.
PRESIDENT RUss's CHARGES
Principal Lycett Will Have to
Answer For His Neglect-Jani-
tor Merely Reprimanded.
PRESIDENT RUsS's CHARGES
Principal hycett Will Have to
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towards the principals. The Board of Edn-
cation is about decided that the principals of
the schools do not report to them certain
happenings in their schools as required, and
last night they made an example of one prin-
cipal, John w. .Lycett, of School No. 2.
President Russ drew up a series of charges
against the principal, and intimated that
there would be more to follow if thi ngs
we're not improved. The charges are as fol-
lows
TnE
Under Rule s., l hereby charge Principal
lohn W, Lycett with failing 20 report 70 me
Government. the following deiinqueacies on
the part of Jauitor Mccarthy of School No =,
10 witt
ID Failing TO report. his absence on various
day ! between the first day of Norsmber and the
fifteenth day of the same month OF ls93-
60 Falling 10 report that the hres IN tue
stoves aud furnaees OF No. J School were not
lighted Il sufficient length of time before school
nne in the morning OF January ), 1854 and tnat
on the ssid dav the rooms OF sad school were
not hsated a sufficient length or time In the
moruing 80 have the rooms comfortable and
sufficiently warm for the reception of pupils by
81 Failing to rspost that the said schoo /
building is gsnsralIy Kept ia . nhhy and un i.
clearly condition aud more particularly on IN 9
seid third day of January.
"a Failing to report that the said janitor had
repeatedly appeared at the scneol 10 az iptoxl-
GATED condition and more particularly on tn Q
60 That the SAID principal violate rule 20 in
failing TO report neglect on tia part OF Janltor
as Thst School No. g was closed on the morn
ding of January 3. 1894, without good aud sut-
"a That SCHOOL No. . was closed on the morn
ing of January 3 without the reason therefore
being reported 10 The board at this. its next
regular meeting.
RUSS SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS. p
Trustee Hicks took charge of the gavel
while President Russ got upon the floor to
speak ON the resolution. He said, with con-
siderable animation
Il am convinced that the way TO strike at
the root of these evils is to strike at the head.
Things that happen never come before our
notice until dragged through the mud and
mire, finally reaching us through the agency
of the papers. | thank the papers fer this.
But 1 declare it is better for such things to
come through the proper channels. Nc
Carthy should have 0een warned when he
was found derelict. If Mccarthy was sick
[ find good cause for his absence. But this
board was never appriSed of his sickness as
it should have been, and for each days
absence u janitor is deducted in pay unless
sufficient reason is given. Sometimes the
condition of the school is bad. Sometimes
Janitor Mccarthy is not as sober as he should
be. l blame Principal Lyeett more than any
one else.
Principal Lycett sat in the rear Of the
room, his eyes fixed upon Mr. Russ. His
face was pale and he was slightly uneasy.
Mr.. Russ continued:
If Mr.. Lycett had warned Mccarthy the
latter would AVE done better work. Not
alone is this principal at fault, but l intend
making an example of him to warn others.
We hear of these things only from the out
side. It's a shame. The man in charge of
No. 2 school is the maj to blame in this
matter-Lyeett.
TEAcHaRs pnsPisE afM.
His conduct is outrageous. The teach
eFs despise him. They hold him in con-
tempt, everyone. The truth, | ma say,
never goes through his lips. He never
speaks it; he does not know what 1T Is. |
say, the quicker we bring these men up and
severely deal with them, the better it will be
for all concerned. l make a motion that
this matter rest with the Committee on
Teachers Salaries and School Government"
The motion was carried,
Charges were preferred against Janitor
Mccarthy in not having the fires lit IN NO. =
school on January 3 so that the scholars
could attend school. The temperatures of
the rooms up to noon was too low to admit of
pupils sitting comfortably in their rooms.
HE'S A POLITICIAN
Janitor Mccarthy said when called to ex-
plain, that he came to the school at one
O'Clock that morning to start the fires. ''The
morning was heavy he said, "and the fires
III IOD 20 dS IlC1 1OdIA ~ III q
chair when they smoked, and would not
burn, and went to sleep until six o'clock.
Then the fires were out. | was not drunk
that morning. 1 had the fires started up
again by nine o'clock, why | had some by
six, and at ten O'Clock the bulldin was warm
enough all over"
Trustee Sanford dMcCarthyshould have
had the fires well started at one o'clock, and
moved that as a punishment he be suspended
to February l.. Trustee Heating came to
McCarthy's rescue by saying that as the only
complaint was not Eindling fires in time he
considered it a trivial charge, and moved
that the board President reprimand Nc
Carthy. This was done, In talking to him
President Russ said he felt assured if Me
earthly had known the matter weuid ever
come before che board it would never have
happened.
LATE CoMERS.
The board intends to get at teachers who
are chronic Late comers.T Trustee Hess
moved that all these teachers give excuses
in each instance when such things happen.
He gave a report of the minutes the teachers
were late during December, amounting to
100 minutes. The board left the matter
with the COMMITTEES on School Government.
When a claim of Contractor A.. w, Clay
toms was presented, Trustee Reid said he
was against paving it because, he claimed,
CONTRACTOR CLAYTON owed a balance to the
board. Trustee cannon said Clayton did not
owe any money to the board. The claim was
ordered paid.
WILL LOOK UP THE LAW.
Mary Fitzgibbons requested that entrance
to the Normal School be granted her.
Trustee Hess objected, arguing that only a
pupil from the High School could enter the
Normal School, and Miss Fitzgibbons was
not a High School student. The matter was
referred to experimenting Principal Rue
and the COMMITTEES ON Normal Schools.
County Superintendent Houghten, not
satisfied with the privilege granted for the
use of No. g School for the county examiIla-
ton on February 5 and 4 on condition that
no class be dismissed, endeavored to have
the matter RECONSTRUCTED by requesting that a
class lie dismissed. He thinks this should be
lone, but tue communication was not con-
,idered, having been settled before.
The committee appointed TO examine into
class grades and report those not up to the
required average, reported that they had
found tue schools in al unsatisfactory con
dition IN this respect aud recommended that
the principals of the various schools make
examination Of the grades and report be
fore February IA to the board, After that
! time they viii be held responsible for the
grade average. The board then adjourned
RESCUED THE CAT.