The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-06-09

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, As to the charge relative to visiting
the schools, Prof. Norvell said the rule
! had heen violated. That he made an
investigation last January in respect
to a report of the grievance commit.
tee. What he learned was excluded.
He said thPt during the two and 3 half
years up to last January he had been
at that building and heard two recita-
tions. That since he had been in his,
Prof. Norvell's room, three or four
times to partially hear Rotations. In
regard to the charge of restoring pu-
pills suspended without consent of the
principal, Prof. Norvell said he knew
of one instance only, and that was
when = pupil from Miss Hailey's room
was suspended and transferred by Su.
perintendent Hatfield to another build
ing.
He said about the time the exercises
were to be held at the public library
building, the teachers were called to
the building and instructed relative
to the marching to the building. That
there was objection to mixing the
white and oolored schools, but Super
intendent Hatfield said they would go
into it if they had to 60 into it back
ward.
Prof. Norvell said he had known of
some of these transgressions for three
years. When asked why charges had
never been preferred by him before, he
said charges had been made before but
not in formal manner. He did not
think the charges would have amounted
to anytbing. The trustees had been re-
garded as strong Hatfield men, and it
was generally thought that any teach
er who raised objection would have
his head cut of. " When asked If he
would have preferred charges had he
still been connected with the school,
he retorted that he was still connect
ed with the schools.
"You will not be long ?" asked At
torney Lightfoot.
81 have reason to think not" re.
piled Mr.. Norvell
When asked what his feelings were
now towards Superintendent Hatfield
he said they were about the same as
He said he thought he was
sill right in some respects, but not as
school man" He then said he did
not consider Superintendent Hatfield
He said when asked why
he had not mentioned these things to
superintendent Hatfield. he said 1t
was not customary for inferior officers
to advise their superiofs.
He said when asked IL he knew Of
any way the lodge work had ipterfered
with the superintendent school work,
he only knew that the work took up
some time. He cou ldn't state any ex-
act amount of time, but that teachers
several times would undertake to go
in to consult about work, but would
find agents there and not be able to
comm unicste with the superintendent.
That sometimes the superintendent
would attempt to obscure insurance
papers on which he was working when
teachers came in. When asked IL he
had been putting all this down in
book, he he replied that IL he had he
would have had q good deal Of materi-
al. He could not state that the super
had not visited any room in
the city once q month, nor specify any
month he had failed to comply with
it. He admitted the schools were
growing. there were more teachers,
and more rooms, and that the superin-
duties had been greatly in
creased. He said in regard to rein
stating a boy without the consent of
the principal that the boy was named
whjtehurst, and after having been sus-
pended from Miss Hailey's room, he
was transferred to another building
the consent of the principal.
In regard TO the charges of acting
as petty tyrant," Prof.
Norvell gave the instance of partici-
pating in the exercises when the libra
~ building corner stones was laid.
The superintendent, he said, issued in
structions relative to the children's
part and in accordance with it the pu-
pills, some of them very small, would
have had 10 march from their schools
to Ninth and Broadway, and then the