The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-10
.[M0R|AL FROM
! STATES TEACHERS
an Stale Supervisors ofEdu-
cation Wanted.
THREE REASONS GIVEN
h., AoOointment Would Promote Public edu'
,,tios---state Superintendent Salary
cbopld be So, 900, Taking Effect
Alter Next General Election.

vstardsv afternoon before the Com
q an Education, Mr.. j. l. Foust,
and Mr.. Z. G. Brooks. secre-
III If \ committee appointed by the
..ta Teachers Assembly to present Ger
concentrations to the General AS
.,l,, we're given a hearing. They are
the wisest and most successful
DOCTORS in North Carolina. and they
earnest argument in favor of the
,.ogas contained in the memorial they
-.orred. The memorial presented is as
follows;
a,ya as representatives of the Com
;...a on Education, appointed by the
,,.r+h Carolina Teachers Assembly in
s.ion at Morehead City, jun 1915 in
u -I,-ivo wish to present to the joint COM
uirtae on education the resolutions
olonted by that body, viz:
- Let there be ten State Supervisors
4 80 education to work under the direction
- tEa State superintendent OF Public
In,trnctiOns and the State Board of Ed
,cation. to be appointed by the Governor
mon the recommendation of the State
Superintendent not more tina one-fifth
10 90 out Of office every year.
Reasons for the above recommended
tons,
The State Supervisors can save to
the Public School Fund their salaries l.,
hooking after the leakages in the system,
Inv seeing that the ines are properly ap-
nropriated to the school fund. That the
49, 49,
miated directly for securing a four
months school is wisely spent, and that
rha two hundred thousand now proposed
10 be set aside as a permanent fund for
the purpose of building school houses,
be most wisely spent.
They can be a great force for the
stimulation of the County Superintend-
luts, teachers and patrons by conducting
superintendents' meetings, county insti-
tutes for teachers, and by arousing q
stronger sentiment for public education
by addressing the people.
3. They could outline q course of study
fer teachers and pupils and give sugges-
lions about the purchase M use OF
books in the libraries.
II. The teachers also recommend that
the County Board of Education be given
the privilege of employing at a reason
able salary to be fixed by them a County
Superintendent of Schools, and that the
Superintendent be required to give all
his time to the supervision of his schools
because We can never have efficient
schools until we get a live, energetic,
scholarly man in each county at the head
of the system who has been professional
" trained for the work. At present it is
impossible to get such a man in every
county to do this work: and the object
in asking for the State Supervisors is to
bridge over this time until such men can
be trained. That it is the purpose that
the County Superintendent take the
place of the State Supervisors.
III. The teachers recommend further
That the members of tho BOARD of Educa-
ton be elected in such name as not to
change the whole board in any one year;
but that one member be elected each
year. The object of this is to give per-
mauency to the Board and to guarantee
an unbroken policy.
Nv. It was also unanimously recon-
nended that the State Superintendent
salary be Increased from fifteen hundred
dollars per year to three thousand dol
lars per year. The reasons for asking
this Increase in salary are:
!. Because the duties of the State Su-
peTirtendent of Public instruction are
as important as those of any other State
officer.
,. AS the head of the educational in
terests of the State the salary should be
as large or larger than that of any teach
er in the State. Three City Superintend-
ents are paid fifteen hundred dollars, the
Present salary of. the State Superintend-
ent, and five city superintendent are
paid a larger salary than the State SUI
per~Intendent.'