The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-27
The SIORK AS ASCHCOL ISSUE.
MARRIED WOMAN TEACHER RE-
PORTED FOR ABSENCE.
board OF superintendent Dissatisfied
With ExplanatiOns-No President
Chosen Yet--WhOi esale Raises Of
Pay-Part Time Versus Sewing.

At the regular meeting Of the Board Of
Education yesterday the board Of super
intendents reported to the meeting that
Mrs. May c. Rideout Fryer, teacher In
Grammar School 10, at Seventh avenue
and Seventeenth street, Brooklyn, had'beep
suspended on the charge OF being absent
from school during the months of May,
June and September OF this year. 1t was
added that the teacher had not given a
reason for her absence that seemed to the
superintendent to be satisfactory.
1t was unofficially said that the cause OF
absence was that the stork had visited the
home Of Mrs. Fryer and left little pupil
there that objected so vociferously to part
time education that the teacher felt called
upon to devote all her time to the new
conner and had none to spare for the school
1t was decided to refer the matter to the
committee on elementary schools, and the
Board of Education will have to tackle
the problem: is IL violation Of the rules
of the department for married women
teachers to have babies?"
When the matter of the election of
president was reached, Mr., Everett pro-
posed that the election be indefinitely
postponed. This would permit Acting
President Frank l.. Babbott (Rep., Brook
lynn to hold office until the annual meeting
in February and keep out Abraham Stern
Cram., Manhattan). The proposition was
voted down, 20 to IS. Mr.. Hardness (Rep.,
Brooklyn then moved that the election be
postponed until the February meeting.
Mr.. Limmis said what will the public
think Of us when it goes out that we ire
afraid to elect presiding officer?"
The proposal was voted down and a
ballot taken. The vote stood: Stern 49,
NJ Dwight Collier (Rep., Manhattan, IL;
Frank l.. Babbott, o, and Robert Harrison
Oem., Manhattan), 2; necessary to choice,
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On the fourth ballot Stern got 81 votes
II was said that there was no chance of
electng a Democrat until the Mayor had
appointed commissioners to the three
vacancies now existing. Collier got is
votes on this ballot and Babbott only2.
On the seventh ballot Stern received 10.
Harrison 10. 1t was then decided to give
up trying to elect president until the next
regular meeting.
a notification was received from the
Surrogate's Court of Brooklyn that the
late Cornelius S. Stryker had left to the
Board Of Education 5000 for high school
and 500 toward free library.
1t was voted to increase the salaries of a
large number of employees in the various
bureaus, Mr.. Lummis said the budget
for next year had been cut $4,000, 600, bit
the meeting went on increasing the salaries
from $50 up to $500 year.
Communications were received from
several local school boards, from the United
Hebrew Community and from the Educa-
tional Alliance, protesting against the pro-
posed transfer OF pupils from crowded
East Side schools TO partly empty ones
Oh the West Side.
Mr.. Stern offered a resolution suggesting
a plan to do away with part time classes.
He added that sewing, drawing and con-
structve work be eliminated from the
first and second year course and that the
daily hours of attendance be cut from f.,
to three and half hours,
This will at once relieve $4,000 or 90 600
part time pupils" he said, "and put them
on full time. The plan means the saving
OF thirty new schools and sl0,0OO.OO in
money. The only ones to suffer would be
the extra teachers hired Sewing and
constructive work in the first year is
farce"
City Superintendent Maxwell said the
proposed plan changed nothing but names.
-The part time situation would not be
changed one iota," he continued. Il can
say that IS per cent. of the part time pupils
are Oh the East Side below Twenty-third
street. There is not a single part time
pupil between Fourteenth and 10th streets.
There are not fifty such scholars in The
Bronx and but few hundreds in Rich
mond and Queens. In some parts of Brook
lyn there are many. The plan would de-
prive all children now getting FIVE hours
a day of one hour and a half"
1t was decided to refer the matter to a
Joint committee for a report.