The herald., 1896-06-23
POMONA
Formal Charges Preferred Against the School
Superintendent

Formal Charges Preferred Against the School
Superintendent
POMONA, June 22.-The following
charges which have been preferred
against City Superintendent of Schools
Molyneaux by oliver Youngs. G. B. Mes
senger, ]. L. Crawford, Clarence H. Lee
and George w. Ogle will be given a hear
ing before the meeting Of the school
board in the high school building, Tues
day evening, the SD instant, which will
be public to all desiring to attend. Fol-
lowing are the charges in full:
To the Board Of Education of the City
Of Pomona: Believing that this city
could and should have at the head Of it's
schools one possessing the highest stand
ards Of education, ability and character,
we find 1t our duty to make against F. A.
Molyneaux the following charges:
1. We charge unprofessional conduct:
AZ In disciplining teachers before pupils;
(b) In talking with one teacher about
another; in some cases even criticising
one teacher to another; (c) in the man
ner of his talking to teachers at teachers
meetings; (d) in discriminating in sal
aries paid teachers where the work is
duIlitteuly Iuc SdLltS \cJ ulS LHEcdIA IL
Ing to send teacher to the Kingsley
tract; (f) failing to support teacher in
discipline; (g) in attending a picnic on a
school day and causing absence Of two
other teachers, leaving q number Of pu-
pills without instruction on that day.
2. We charge low standard Of truth
fulness: (a) In asking teachers to per-
jure themselves in swearing to reports
which are untrue; CO. in swearing to
reports himself made from the foregoing.
he knowing them to be untrue; (c) in
requiring teachers to count half days as
whole days: (d) in failing to keep his
word about his use of tobacco; (e) in
misstatements made by him including
the following: His statement that one
or the sixteen failures were from Miss
Miners room, whereas really eight were
from her room; his statement that GER
tain teachers had no high school work
before coming here. whereas the facts
were otherwise; his statement that a
teacher had received pay for all work
done for him outside of school hours,
which was not true; his statement that
Seaver was promoted on recommended
ton OF Miss Ray. whereas she did not
know the pupil.
3. We charge ungentlemanly con-
duct: (a) In offering to pay for one
teacher the amount which he wished
each teacher to contribute toward a GER
sAN- OoySSSt W. Ill Ills IGIUaTkS TO a
teacher before her pupils.
4. We charge unworthy political &C.
tion in asking teachers how many votes
they could secure for him.
5. We charge the use of alcoholic bev-
erages and narcotics. Teachers are re-
CURED to teach the effects Of these: his
reputation and example are, therefore,
detrimental in their influence upon our
youth, especially in view Of the needs of
these times.
IS. We note physical disabilities unfit
ting him for discipline in a school room
IN the absence Of other teachers.
(S1gned) Oliver Youngs, C. B. Mes
senger, ]. E. Crawford, Clarence IT Lee
George w. Ogle. -'
w. X. White of the University of
Southern California preached in the Con
gregatlonal church in this city yester-
day.
Miss Ida Shut, manager Of the West
ern Union telegraph in Pomona, spent
yesterday the guest of Miss Lillian RalI
Hamlin at Santa Monica,
IN an interview with Secretary Adams
or the school board, today, regarding the
compulsory requirement of the Pomona
pubic schools that pupils must take up
the study Of Latin after the ninth wear
or be debarred from attending school
secretary Adams stated the board had
the matter of modifying the law unfier
adVlsement, and whatever was best for
the whole community would be done IN
the matter ~oAe III