The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-01
CHANGES AND TRANS
FERS.

vi dlll-NISS L. w. NODCllS,
November, 1895, vice A. Cook
son, January II, 1898.
South End-Miss J. I. King,
February 3, 1888, vice Miss NJ.
C. Torpey, September 8, 1897.
Jefferson - Miss A. Tilling,
September 8, 1896, vice A. Cas-
samajou, September 8, 1897,
Chinese-Miss M. c. McDon-
aid, August a, 1897, vice Miss J.
Passalacqua, September 8, 1897.
Lincoln Evening - Miss NJ.
Brett, September, 1888, vice D.
c. Deasy, July p, 1893.
Hamilton-Miss E. Cert, April
II, 1897, vice Dora Israel, Feb
ruary %, 1898.
DAY CLASS DISMISSED.
Miss Alice Dunn, August 10,
1898, P.
Miss NJ. Mckinley, August 10,
1898.
Miss E. J. Hart, September IA,
1893, P.
DAY UNASSIGNED WITH
OUT PAY.
Miss R. Stack, February 20,
1893.
Miss E. C1eary, February 20,
1898.
Miss M. Kyne, May 10, 1898,
P.
Miss NJ. Liner, June Fl, 1893,
P.
Miss B. Millhone, June II,
1893. P.
ADDITIONS TO DAY SUB
STITUTES.
Miss R, ]. McFeeley, Septem-
Der 20, 1897, R.
Miss Lucille O'Connell, Janu-
airy 26, 1893, P,
Miss Virginia Cassidy, Febru-
airy -, 1893, P.
Miss T. A. Rickson, February
20, 1893, R.
Miss L. Radford, January ~,
1893, P.
EVENING SUBSTITUTES.
Miss Dora Israel, February e,
1893, from evening substitute to
evening unassigned.
Miss A. J. Rock, January II,
1893.
The foregoing names represent additions
and corrections to the list of transferred,
degraded and dismissed public school
teachers, submitted BY Superintendent
Webster and adopted by the Board of
Education.
The revolution in the public schools of
this city has now become a controversy
that the courts of the State must decide
Many of the teachers who were degraded
in rank or who were dismissed from the
department on Monday night, have de-
termined to raise a legal issue and test
the assumed authority Of the Board Of
Il -A,,, -
ers in the department. The entire ques-
ton is at the same time interesting and
involved. In the first place the tabulated
statement of transfers, changes, degrade
lions in rank and dismissals is not cor
rect.
The chief deputy of the Superintendent
of Schools admits this fact and accounts
for it on the score of. inadvertance. The
list of changes, submitted on Monday
night by the Superintendent of Schools.
is not chronologically correct. The names
of several teachers who should have been
dismissed under the ruling of the Board
of Education have not been mentioned in
any connection. In some way these
teachers, who should have followed
In the path of their less fortunate sisters
were, overlooked and protected in the
scheme of elimination. Superintendent
Webster through his deputy, emphatical-
thing to do with the protection granted
but the fact remains that certain teach
ers who should have been dismissed were
untouched by the pruning knife of re-
trenchment.
Superintendent Webster was as mac
cessible yesterday as the unknown god of
the Greeks, but Mr.. Webster's assistant
volunteered the information that an
amended list of dismissed teachers would
be produced as soon as it could be pre-
pared. The Board of Education had prom
Used that teachers would be treated i'm
partially, but the Superintendent mad
vertently had overlooked several young
ladies whose names will now be added to
those dismissed from the department
When these names have been added to
the superintendent list another inexpli-
cable fact will remain in connection with
the report of the Superintendent. 1t will
be remembered that the Board of Educa-
tion unanimously decided to dismiss all
teachers that were appointed to the de-
partment on and after August Is, 1885,
In the report submitted by Superintend-
ent Webster there is list of unassigned
day teachers who are nominally in the
department and serving without pay for
their services. In this list are the names
Of several young ladies who were appoint