The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-16
Teachers Raise Objections to the
Workings Of the Salary Schedule
in the City Schools.
CLAIM ADVANCES ARE UNFAIR.
Several Teachers Have Asked for Increases
ana Rates May be Revised. -School
Board Has a Quiet Meeting.

The Board of Education met in
regular session at the city hall last
night. and the meeting proved to be
one of the most interesting ever held by
the members of the board. The pres.
ence of two ladies' in the lobby of the
council chamber seems to have had
the effect of quieting the members
down and they remained decidedly
subdued during the evening. The
working majority of the democracy
was present at the meeting and the
republicans had no chance to do any.
thing but submit to what ever was
proposed.
The salary schedule formulated by
the board several years ago and con-
coded to be a fair arrangement for
the advancing of the teachers salaries
is being assailed by the teachers and
one of them has already asked that
she be granted an increase not granted
by the schedule.
AS the schedule now works it is nee
essary for a teacher to be in the Keno
sha schools as primary teacher for
six years before she ca n receive wages
of fifty dollars month, and at present
women who have graduated from Nor
NAL schools are working in the city
schools for the small salary of thirty
eight dollars a month. One of the
teachers has asked for an increase of
two dollars month, and other appli-
cations for raises will follow. 1t is pos
sible that this general raise will be
forced upon the Board in order to keep
the best teachers.
The arbitrary increase in wages
seems to be anything but fairs and Mr..
Baker has expressed himself Ia favor
OF making some new arrangement for
the increase in salaries. 1t is certain
that some Of the best teachers in the
city are being forced to work for very
small salaries, simply because the
schedule will not allow them to raise
faster on the salary list. Teachers
now employed have threatened to re-
sign if some new arrangement is not
made.
The secret session rule of the Board
was called into service again Tuesday
night, when Miss Hattie Paulsen, an
applicant for position as teacher,
asked permission to address the Board.
o. course there is possibility that the
people of the city would not have been
interested in the statements made by
Miss Paulsen to the Board, but there
seemed to be no reason for clearing the
room of the people who had taken an
interest in the. doings of the Board.
The schools of the city should be for
the whole people, and it is difficult to
understand how there can be anything
of SO secret nature with the Board.
The rule for secret session is being
invoked SO often that is has been sug-
gested that a series of signs and pass
words be prepared and in this manner
the Board can meet in some lodge hall
without any danger of the prying peo-
pie discovering what they are doing.
L. F. Flipse, who has been the prin-
cipa1 Of the Weiskopf school, has re-
signed his position and will go to She
boygan to accept the position of prin-
cipa1 of one of the schools there. No
one has as yet been selected to fill this
vacancy, but the teachers committee
will make some choice before the next
meeting of the Board.