The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-06


and grade the teacher may get i, thus
being returned to full standing again.
ut occasionally PIPER that a teacher
who fails iii three or four schools will
while a substitute. land in just the school
for which she is fitted, and make q sue
cess. A great deal depends upon the
principal, TOD, for some Of them are most
helpful and DO a vast deal toward making
the teachers life easier. They are often
the means Of saving a teacher from being
a failure. and ma start her on the path
which may end in her becoming q first
class Instructor. There are others VINO
are first-class principals In many ways,
but who are hard taskmakers and un-
sympathetic. They pride themselves on
getting out Of their teachers every bit Or
work Of which they are capable, for that
rebounds to their glory, since it raises the
standard of their school, thek think.
have known teachers who did not do at
all well under one principal blossom forth
as excellent teachers under another. The
general substitute list gives a teacher a
chance to find proper principal for her
to work under, as well as the proper
school.
II have been surprised to find how
quietly the change has been taken by
teachers. Those who are at home do not
seem to fully realize the meaning OF the
general substitute list as yet. When
school opens. however. they will come
back to their classrooms in more or less
of a hutter, I fear. They will, most OF
them, be possessed with he idea that
they are marked for places on that awful
listi while In the vast majority of cases
they will be teachers in first class stand
ing. After a time that foolish apprehen-
sion will wear away. The entire teaching
force, however, win be stimulated by the
new regime, and there VIII be q big adj
vance in the grade OF teaching. A wise
principal Will, however, use his Judgment
and try n influence those Of his teach-
ers who are disposed to oyerdo it and to
overwork, to conserve their ener-
gy. To many others the spur Of the
new conditions will be beneficial.
The general substitute list will, of
course, give principals a little more power
than formerly, since it viii be upon their
recommendations, very largely, that a
teacher will find her way to it. The SUI
pe%rintendent, while he will nc doubt OBJ
serve each case personally. must to q GER
tain extent be guided by the opinion of
the principal. Still, the possibilities which
the substitute list affords makes it impos-
sible for a teacher who allows his per-
sonal feeling to influence him in submit
ting the name of a teacher for removal to
cause her dismissal from the teaching
inks. She will, if she is in any way
deserving, sooner or later find her way
back to some classroom where she may
remain permanently. / do not think there
is much chance of a teacher being put on
the list unfairly, but, as you can see, the
opposition of the principal who may have
helped send her there cannot keep her
there. In a force of seven hundred or SO
teachers there are Bound to be some IN
competent, and / doubt if a better plan
for wedding them out can be found in
operation in any public school system n
the country. However, we Will see: "A
years trial of the new system win DEM
onstrate its value"