The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-09-26
SCHOOL BOARD MEETS.
No Change Made in Schools OF
Seventh Ward-Supt. ALE.
man Submits Annual
Report.
Salaries of Tea chers-Central Schools
Interesting Statistics-Demand
for SchOO!hOuSes.


At a meeting of the School BOart
held on the above date the following
members we're present: Alex Del
homme ST.. Jasper Spell. DR.. G. A.
Martin. DR.. n. Z. Moss, Arthur Co
meaux. j. H. Bernard, A. D. Verot,
Alcide Judice. Absent, c. c. Brown,
On motion duly seconded the parish
treasurer was authorized to discount
school land notes of the present year,
in order to meet current expenses.
Mr.. Jones, principal of the primary
school. was transferred to Scott and
Mrs. Judith Green was appointed to
succeed him.
The secretary was authorized to
rent additional rOOIns, If found neces-
sary.
Acting on a petition from the sixth
ward for transpOrtatiOntO the Caren-
Gro central school, the Board APP
pointed Messrs. Brown and Alleman
a committee to investigate, with
power to act in their discretion.
The Board authorized Mr.. Aras
Hoppauir to purchase 100 lbs of
barbed wire for the Ridge school.
Additional desks for this school will
be furnished as soon as possible.
After having carefully examined
the territory in the seventh ward and
visited the two sites proposed for a
central school in that ward the Board
returned to the meeting place and de-
cided that no change in the present ar
rangement would be made at this time.
This action a taken for two reasons:
First, Pilette has already been created
a central school: second, the ward is
divided on the question of location.
The Committee on Examination of
Teachers presented the following re-
port:
To the President and Members of the
Board of School Directors,
Parish of Lafayette:
AS a result of the regular examina-
ton of applicants for certificates to
teach in the public schools of this
parish held on July 80, 81, and August
l, we beg leave to report that the fol-
lowing persons were granted certif-
Gates: Miss Carrie LESLEY. third
grade, Miss Maggie Bagnal, second
grade: Alta CASTOR, third grade. Two
applicants failed to pass.
The parish superintendent submit
ted the following annual report:
To the President and Members of the
School Board, Parish of Latayette::
Ii gives me pleasure to submit this
my annual report of condition of the
public schools of the parish covering
the period between July 6, 1905 and
July 6, 1906.
During the past three a there
has been a great scarcity of teachers,
but last session teachers were 81
n1,rnh in dom nd that <Lo zI-
this parish opened with a shortage of
ffteen teachers. There were three |
hundred schools of the State not oper- |
ated on account of the scarcity of
teachers. UP to the present time the
Committee or Appointment of Teach.
ers has not been able to secure the
number OF teachers necessary for the
I the parish and as a result |
some OF the schools will be compelled
10 walt until January before beginning
the session.
The average salary ofthe teachers en-
ployed In Lafayette Parishforthe period
e by this report was $50 making
the teachers pay for one year $3.50.
ms Is less thai is paid street sweep
erS IN Cities, less than the carpenter.
brick layer, the plumber the bar
per and the clerk receive. This rela-
tiveiy low wage also accounts for the
tact that every four years one fourth
the teachers OF the State leave the
procession, for the fact that the male
eacners are finding more remunera-
Tive employment in medicine, law and
pursuits. The extent 70
which the male teachers are leaving
the profession has caused United
States Commissioner of Education
Harris 20 make q special inquiry and
report ON this subject. $3.50 per year
IS not sufiicient pay for the quality and
importance OF the work required of
cne line average pay for the
year l908-07 will be $468 per pear. II
costs me eache about S25 per month
living expenses or $500 per year:
ON the present basis the teachers of
Lafayette will have SI6S with which n
pay DOCTORS bills, church dues, at
scho0i conventions (which every
escner VINO expects to teach must at
Eend) buy professional books and !,
magazines. and clOthe themselves in
manner Deflttlng their exalted calling. !
Severa OF the best teachers of the
parish accepted positions in other par
for the coming session because {;
were Onered better salaries. The
OF Lafayette must either pay it's !
eachers living salaries or be content
Q part with its best teachers each year,
for the past live years teachers whose ,
ervices should have been retained ,
lere have been permitted to leave be- I
anse other parishes paid them better
han we. This is false economy. At ,