The San Francisco call., 1897-09-02
RAW WORK OF
THE SOLID NINE
Favorite Teachers Trans
ftrred to the Detriment
Of Others.
School Director Head Makes
a Protest Without
Avail.
Superintendent Webster Submits a
Plan for Curtailing the Course
of Study.

nine in the Board OF Education came to
light at last nights meeting when the re-
port OF the Committee on Elementary
Education was taken up.
A large number of transfers were recon-
mended by the ommittee, and Director
Head m ade protest against the report on
the ground that the teachers transferred
had not all given their consent, as had
been stated. He asserted that in one case
transfer had been made because favor
ite of one OF the Directors had asked to
be assigned to a certain school so that she
could get home at noon each day in order
| to get hot lunch.
The Director asserted that the transfer
under such circumstances could not be
considered as in the best interests OF the
department, and protested against trans
fers of that kind.
The majority voted in favor of the trans
fers that were as follows:
That Miss Bartlett be transferred from the
Douglas Primary to the Madison Primary; that
Miss Frank be transferred from the Irving to
the Emerson School; that Miss Mary +. DOH
erty be transferred from the substitute list 10
the Douglas Primary; that q new receiving
| class be opened in the Stanford School; that
| Miss Little be transferred from the Henry
| Durant School to the charge of the receiving
| class in the Stanford School; that third grade
| class be transferred from the Stanford School
| to the Franklin Grammar School; that Miss
! scholl be transferred from the Stanford school
| to the Franklin School; that Miss E. S. Loud
| be trans ierred from the Longfellow TO the
| Henry Durant School; that Miss Mary Baillie
| be transferred from the substitute class to the
| Longfellow School.
The report also recommended that the
| following be placed on The Elementary
| Institute list:
EVELYN r. Manning, Jennie F. Erkson, Mary
| Geary, Agnes c. Dowing, Josephine Parks,
Addie Mcdonnell, May Dwyer and Florence
| Davis
| The persons named were elected with
| the exec ption of Miss Florence DAVIS. who
| was vouched for by Director Dsrham.
Superintendent Webster presented the
| following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolued Tha. nine years be occupied for
| the completion of the course of study III the
primary and grammar grades; that the work
of the grades be so modified as 10 preclude the
| necessity OF a four years course in the high
schools, it being understood that the sched ule0
work as prescribed in the new course OF study
| for the primary and grammar schools be modi-
| fed as soon as possible.
| The Committee on Buildings and
| Grounds submitted the following report
thai failed of passage because OF the lack
| of one vote:
| That six rooms be added to the Hamilton
| Grammar School building; that the Dudley
| Stone Primary School building be raised
| another story and four classrooms added;
| that two rooms be added to the Burnett School
| building an adjoining lot having been
cured tor the purpose; that the Sheridan
| School building be raised another story and
three classrooms added.
Director Head made a successful fight
against the report on the ground that the
appropriation for the coming fiscal year
has uot been m ade and that it would not
be safe to count at present on sufficient
money to make the improvements.
A Recommendation of the Committee on
Qualifications that Miss NJ. NJ. Carew and
Miss Julia Coffey, probationary teachers,
be elected regulars i'll the department was
adopted.
The rules were suspended and Miss Car
rie NJ. Mills and Miss Nellie E. Purinton,
probationary teachers, were elected regu-
lar teachers in the department.
During the meeting the injunction
papers prohibiting the board from paying
any money to the PeCk-Williams Heating
and Ventilating Company were served on
the board.
The Peck Williams Com pany performed
work on the Mission High School build
ing, and the injunction is the result of
suit brought by Walter Morgan to test the
right of the board to let the contract in
the manner that it did.
The schools were ordered closed on
Monday and Thursday next because legal
olidays fail on those days.
A petition from the residents of the
Richmond district west of Nineteenth ave-
nue. asking the erection of school build
ing on Twenty-fourth avenue was referred
to the Buildings and Grounds Committee.
The following recommendations OF the
Committee on Evening Schools ware
adopted:
That the male adult classes now in the Wash
ington Evening School be transferred to the
lie Conte school, under the charge of the prin-
cipal of the Washington Evening School; that
Miss Mary Mead be elected principal of the
John SWEET Evening School; that Miss Lizzie
B. Harrigan be elected principal OF the Rincon
Evening School; that Miss Margaret Mcdonald
of the evening substitute class be assigned to
the Washington Evening School; that the fol-
lowing named be elected special teachers
Miss Z. Bodkin, stenography; Miss K. Nc
Guire, bookkeeping; Miss J. Herman, type
writing: Miss Ray Cohen, stenography; Miss
A. Byrne, bookkeeping and stenography; Miss
Olsen, typewriting; W. Langdon, bookkeep-
ing; Miss Lillian Mahan, Spanish; Miss A.
Bowling, Spanish.
The following were recommended and
elected to the evening substitute list with
out pay: Miss Gertle Fitzgerald. Miss
E. Campbell Miss Laura Simon, Miss
Agnes StummelI, Miss Ella 3. Taylor,
Miss Mabel Bradley and Miss Sabin.