The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-24
SALARIES OF TEACHERS
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
IRE UNIFORMLY SMALL

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| arated by law, yet it seems that teachers
! disciplined In Canada for forcing their per-
! sonal religious views on pupils are given
employment in the public schools OF the
CHiteu STATES while American girls WINS
| TO 1--WE up to the laws demands, must COM
pete with these foreigners and not infre-
| quently give way to them.
| In the Canadian country districts few
| women teachers receive more than 500
| year on an average, especially If the school
| is under Catholic protectorate. In some dis
| trictS teachers with first-claSS certificates
receive from $3.50 to $500 per year. In To-
| ronto and other big cities teachers start with
| a salary of $3.50 per year. After ten years
! service they are advanced to $500 per annum.
| A female principal in Toronto may earn up
TO $500 per year Male principals receive I've
from $500 to $500 per year, against 1880
| and 81 400 in the United States
BELGIUM AND DENMARK.
In Belgium public schools have been sue
cessfully under the rule of the Catholic
Church and the state. and again under that
of the church, but, aside from religious and
ncnreligious influences. public education is
controlled by the communities. Any city.
town or village may abolish public schools
altogether and substitute private schools
! if they like to pay for the privilege. They
may also turn the schools over entirely to
religious congregations, except when twenty
fathers of school-golng children protest.
The communities may employ teachers
with or without diplomas. but the minister
| of education may remove any unsatisfac-
] tory teacher. If the community is not salts
ned with the teacher. the person may be
dismissed and his salary reduced to an
| allowance of 500 per year, no matter what
his previous income has been.
reIieioss ipstrnnror naS If 'h N5munity re
| fuses to include that branch, but interfer-
ence is permissible only If twenty fathers
! of school-going children ask for same.
The community fixes teachers salaries,
| subject to the approval of the Educational
! Council" elected by Parliament. An appeal
| to the King as arbiter is permissible. The
lowest teachers salary permissible under
| the law is $160 for under teachers
| full-fedged teacher receives at least $l92,
| besides free rent. Unless teacher has been
| disciplined, he is entitled to raise of $40
after five years, $40 after ten years, $50 after
| fifteen years and 1920 after twenty years.
| But to get the raise person must serve
the same community continuously. After
| thirty years service a teacher is entitled
! 10 a pension amounting to one-ffty- fifth
! part OF his average income, all told, during
| the last five years of service
Compulsory education was introduced
| into this kingdom in 1914 and there are no
| better schools of instruction for teachers
| in the world That at the present public
| education is not up to the high standard of
thirty or more years ago. is. or was, due
| to large extent, to the unhygienic condi-
\ ton of schoolh0uses throughout the king
| dom. However, this state of affairs is
| rapidly done away with, Copenhagen hav-
| ing set the pace for building model school
| houses and other cities and towns follow
] ing.
Copenhagen pays its school teachers $3.50
! to start with after four years the salary is
| increased to 1926; after eight years to 1853.
| This is the salary of male teachers only;
women receive one-third less than their
| male colleagues. The lowest income per-
missble TO offer village teacher is SlS2.
IN THE KAISER'S DOMAIN.
| After all the fuss made about the Prus-
sian school teacher who was credited with
! having won her three victorious wars
| QS64, 1861, 1S70-O1), school teachers continue
to be miseraby underpaid in the Kaisers
| hereditary kingdom, and at the same time,
like in most other German states and state
lets, school education is matter OF much
expense even to the poorest of poor
| parents
One per cent. of the entire cost of educa-
| ton Is borne directly by the parents of the
| pupil considerable item, particularly as
| German families proverbally large and
| State taxes for education are nearly 81 per
/ head of population.
In Prussia pater familias reallypays three
school taxes-one general tax for the State,
city tax and finally school money for
each child he raises; there could be no
surer way Of disgusting poor people with
| education as a Reichstag deputy recently
said. This over-taxation for school pur-
poses is. OF course. chiefly due TO the en-
| pire's enormous naval and military budg-
cts; the teachers are miserably paid the
children must provide their books and writ
| ing materials. which constitutes a fourth
very large tax on the struggling man of
family.
The average income of school teacher
in small towns. or in the country. is no
| more than $21S per year, with meat -four
sugar and other food stuffs 20 per cent
! higher than in New York city. Teachers
! in the large cities receive, on the average
/ $341 per annum. To these stipends the i'm
perial government adds so-called sub
vention," namely, $50 per year to the coun-
try and sS.75 per year to the city teachers
| In Berlin teachers little better paid
| A school superintendent receives from $3.50
TO $925-aside from free lodgings, valued at
SIPS per annum.
The lowest salary paid to teachers in Ber-
! lin. which is the most expensive city in
/ Germany, is S315. the highest $3.50 Female
teachers are paid from $40 to 500. The
! highest pension that a teacher may aspire
! to is 70 per cent. of his or her last salary
EDUCATION IN FRANCE.
Only since June 16. 1884, has pub
lie school education been free for
all in France, therefore, the num-
/ Der of Frenchmen unable to read
or write is still very considerable. as may
be judged from the fact that some 10000
men and $1,000 women. annually. confess
their inability to sign their marriage GER
! tifcates.
! The law excluding members Of religious
| orders, male and female, from acting as
school teachers was framed in 1885 and was
supposed to have gone into effect five years
! later. AS a matter Of fact, Prime Minister
Combes still has his hands full enforcing
/ its conditions, but he is sure to succeed.
The French Parliament has lately con-
/ scented TO raise teachers salaries somewhat
! but the increase is to be very gradual, and
/ il will probably take FIVE or six years TO
complete the reform. however necessary.
! AS a starter. the Chambers have decreed
/ that no teachers shall be employed at less
\ than 500 annual wages. This applies to as
I sistant teachers. The regular teachers are
| TO receive no less than 500
IN GREECE AND ITALY.
Compulsory education became a law in
Greece In 1894. but a large percentage of
noble Greeks still refuse to recognize the
obligation. as demonstrated by the fact that
nearly So per cent. of males and more than
IS per cent. OF females in this country can
neither read nor write At the present time
| Greece has over 5000 public schools, en-
/ ploying more than 1000 teachers.
1 The salary question is regulated by
classes. Teachers OF the first class receive
up to- SIC per month those OF the second
class SIG. and those of the third class Sl3
| per month.
l. Compulsory education OF kind was in
troduced into Italy twenty-five or twenty