The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-28
ANACONDA news.
MEL SCHOOL TEACHERS
Five Adele Principals to Be En-.
gagged for the Next Term.
NO SALARIES YET FIXED
The Board of Education Slowly but
Surely Getting Affairs in shape
for q Most Successful
Term Next Winter.

In anticipation of a very important
session. every member of the board of
education was i'm attendance last even
Ing when President futile called the
meeting to order. After a recess OF
three days the members of the board
assembled fully. or evidently so. pre-
pared to finish the business left un-
finished at the meeting Tuesday night.
The work to be done was the fixing of
a salary schedule. and the engaging
OF a corps of teachers for the next
school term.
what happened last night complete
iy upset the plans partially agreed to
A. the previous meeting and will neces-
state a revision of the list of eachers
recommended by the committee for APP
pointment-it was ordered that five
male principals be engaged, one for
each school. including that of Carroll.
This conclusion was reached after
much discussion as to a salary scheSr
ule.
Superintendent Stapleton Immediate
~ after the meeting was called to or
der read communications from the
superintendent of the Butte and Mis-
soula schools. stating the salaries paid
TO teachers in those cities. This was
at the request of the board at the pre-
vious meeting. which requested MIR.
Stapleton to ascertain from superin-
tendents or other schools i'm the state
the salaries paid in their respective dis
tricts. Mr.. Stapleton also submitted
to the board a salary schedule affect
ing teachers of primaryfand intermedi-
ate grades 1t differed only slightly
from the schedule now in force, ex-
cepting that it provided for a S. in
crease yearly. He said thai it was
only an attempt at schedule making
and did not formally that
the board adopt il.
There was a discussion of more than
an hour. every member offering sug-
gestions, still nc vote was taken on
any proposition. The talk drifted into
a general conversation on teachers,
male and female. 1t was beginning to
be apparent that the board was Lean
ing favorably toward male principals,
Mr.. Cuddahy leading the procession.
1t was at first suggested, Mr.. Saple-
ton ~favoring the plan. that a man be
engaged To instruct the High school in
botany, business methods and the
To employ one male princi-
pal at a salary of 500 and female prin-
cipals in other schools at a small sal
airy met opposition. Why not engage
tNo, Obt u tIt ,tntTd ana one IOF
the Lincoln school. the two largest
buildings? That was all right so far
as it went, but ii didn't go far enough.
Well. then, engage four, one for each
of the schools of the city. Another
suggestion made IL five. including Car
roll in the list. and so there will be
five new male principals at the head
of the several school in the city and
Carroll when the term begins next fall.
Who thew will he IS tn ha dacidad utapn
later, after the teachers committee
meets n revises the list it recon-
mended last Tuesday night. There
will be, however. a very few IL any
disappointments, as the new teachers
will not crowd out many lady teachers,
who will be assigned room in some of
the many new ones to be opened in the
fall.
No member of the board intimated
that the. ladies had not done their
work well in the higher grades. The
teachers as a whole were complimented
very highly. but il was the sense of
the board that men were again DEM
onstrating their superiority as instruc-
tors in the advanced classes all over
the country, M to engage them in
Anaconda would not be an experiment
in any sense. Furthermore. no teacher
has yet been engaged for next term,
and before electing the CORDS recon-
mended by the committee il was
thought best to revise the list so as to
include the five male principals. after
which the election will occur and then
a salary schedule fixed.
Superintendent Stapleton said that
he estimated that bou 800 new pupils |
would enter the schools next fall. in
which case the number of teachers will
be smaller, but rather larger than
at the present time.