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

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{ were withdrawn by the superintendent
Prof. ]. e. Snider took the STAN
and was first granted permission T.
stand and testify.
He passed two charges. saying the,
would be fully substsntiated by othe
witnesses. In regard to suspended
pupils, Prof. Snider explained abou
one boy named Lagewald. The wit
ness was here required to sit down.
In regard to insinoerity in having
announcements made through the pa
pors of recommendation for the schools
and then pursuing the matter no fur
Their, he recited case where gram.
mar school library was to be pur.
chased, some money collected for il
and nothing else ever done. There
was another plan suggested by the SUI
perintendent to secure pictures for the
schools and nothing further done about
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proposed an organization of the pri-
mary grades after the visit Of Miss
Walsh, and then did nothing further
towards it, and never took any inter
est in il or attended any of the meet
ings.
In regard TO giving orders conflict
ing with the rules he told of one time
the teachers were ordered not to ex-
ouse pupils on receipt of notes from
parents when the excuse was deemed
insufficient. although the rules say pu
pills shall be exiused in such cases.
For violations the pupil was to be sus
pended. The witness related one in
stance where President Leake's son
brought a note TO be excused to go TO
matinee and Prof Snider acting I'M
der instructions declined to excuse
hin. The boy left anyhow, and the
superintendent didn't do anything
about il.
He stated in regard to the petty
tyrant" charge that the library build.
ing incident was one.
He said when the question of the
schools participation in the exercises
came up, the superintendent conferred
with the principals, whom he called
This cabinet" and when his plan was
outlined the principals promptly OPP
posed it as inadvisable. II would have
required the pupils, many of them too
small. TO walk from their schools in
distant parts of the city to Ninth and
Broadway. Another thing was that
the white and colored pupils would be
mixed on the grounds
but this WIS not the main reason the
teachers objected. Finally the opposi-
ton to the published directions be.
came so strong among the teachers
that some of the principals went to
members OF the board and protested,
and the result was the superintendent
before the exercises were held with
drew his instructions. and the witness
thought il was because he found the
board would not indorse him In the |
matter. Previous to the withdrawal
OF the plans, however, the superinten-
dent said to the teachers who were as
sembled for instruction, in regard TO
opposition to the plan, that the
schools had gone into it and would
stay in IL they had to "go in back
wards.
Another rule alleged to have been
violated was that leaving 1t optional
regarding the opening of school rooms
with the Lords prayer, some moral
lesson, or readings from the Bible.
The witness claimed that the superin-
tendent issued orders that all rooms
should open with the Lords prayer,
leaving the principals and teachers no
choice.
Prof. Snider said he had differed
with the superintendent almost ever
since he came to Paducah. That Is .
superintendent he did not regard him
as competent man, and had not since
he had come to know him well.
A letter was here introduced by Su-
perintendent Hstfeld's attorneys writ
ten to Superintendent Hatfield by
Prof. snider last July. 1t was very
friendly in its import. and conRratu-
lated the superintendent on what he
had accomplished, and expressed the
hope that the coming year would be
as successful as the one just past.
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