Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-06
TROUBLE NOT ENDED
More Commotion in Mckinley
Manual Training School.
IRE OF PARENTS AROUSED
Miss Ida Daily, English Teacher, Ac-
cused Of Discrimination.
HER VERSION OF CASE GIVEN
Committee Of Board Of Education to
Hear the Complaints Tomor-
row Evening.
HER VERSION OF CASE GIVEN


having been decided that the Industrial
committee of the board shall sit In the
Franklin building tomorrow evening to
take up the allegations made against Miss
Ida NJ DAILY. head teacher OF English at
the mckinley Manual Training School.
Members of the board of education were
asked last night whether there was any
connection between the Gardner and Daily
cases. and whether the latter was an out
come of the former, but all members in
terviewed stated that they knew little
about the matter except as 1t was brought
to their attention at the board meeting FRI
day night, In the reading OF charges pre-
ferred by Mrs. Nsttie Ernst and Mrs Annie
COX Larner. Mrs. Ernst declared that Miss
DAILY Disseminated against her son Charles
to such an extent that he was compelled
TO discontinue his studies. and that when
she went to the school to make complaint
in the premises Miss DAYS attitude was
insulting On behalf Of her son, Noble D.
Larner. Jr.. Mrs. Annie Larner stated that
Miss Days discrimination against him
was such that it was necessary for him
to drop English and to substitute another
study. founs -Larner petitioned that he
be permitted to graduate and that the
study he substituted be allowed to take
the place of English.
In Hands of Committee.
In reply to question last night Mr.. ].
Holdsworth Gordon president of the board
OF education, said he knew little concern
ing the case. 1t had come to his notice
In the board meeting Friday night.
The matter Is with the Industrial COM
mtttee." said he, land until the members
OF that committee finish their inquiry and
report to the full board the allegations
against Miss DAILY will not formally come
to me for action
Mr.. Gordon declared that he would not
oiscuss the merits of the case at all.
Concerning Miss Days record Sllnerin
tendent of Schools A. T. Stuart said she
had been on the rolls for a number of
years. part of which time she was teach
er in the eighth grade Subsequently, she
became teacher of English in the Eastern
High School When a vacancy occurred in
the position of head teacher of English at
the Mckinley Manual Training School last
September, he added she applied for and
secured 1t. Mr. Stuart said that during
his connection with the schools no charges
had ever previously been made to him
against Miss DAILY. to the school board
so far as he knew.
Miss Dalys Statement.
That the DAILY and Gardner cases are
closely allied was alleged by Miss DAILY last
night in interview with a Star repiorter.
and likewise by Mr.. Gardner. who was also
interviewed concerning the matter. Mr.
Gardner. however, preferred not to be
quoted in regard to the DAILY case
The charges against me are not genu-
Inc, she said. Il have the proof that they
are entirely without foundati ton
She then outlined the cases from her
standpoint, saying that her statement was
practically the same she had given in the
Gardner investigation.
Noble D. Larner failed in English the
second quarter she said His mark was
on basis Of four or five examinations
and recitation mark. He took the ex-
animation regularly prescribed for condi-
toned students, Familiarity called Matinee
Examination, in which he failed He asked
for another examination in short time on
the plea that he wanted to make the base
ball team He was given this examination
and Mr.. Klupfel discovered him cheating
ruled his paper out. His mother. I I'M
derstand, came and denounced Mr.. KlupfeI
In the presence of Mr.. Gardner who in
stead of supporting the teacher, supported
the parent
"Afterward in a similar interview with the
mother and Mr.. Gardner, the boy was
brought in, and, before his mother and Mr..
Gardner, admitted having consulted his
notebook. but pleaded lamely that he was
looking for punctuation rules. He admitted
before all of us that l had told him to put
all books and notebooks the floor and
had no excuse for his disobedience The
mother, so Mr. Gardner tells me, went home
satisfied that there might be something in
the cheating charge, but Immediately re-
English. on the score that the work of the
English department is too heavy. Mr.. Gard
ner tells me that Mr. Chamberlain has per-
mitted Larner to drop English temporarily.
"Ilarner remains out of the English class
the rest of the quarter which is practically
all but two or three weeks. few days
before the end of the quarter he comes
to me with the statement that Mr.. Gardner
says he has no objection IL you want to
give me an examination in English.
II told him he had had his privilege to
take another examination, and that he had
abused 1t, and that l could not give him
another. He went to the principal, who
commanded me to give him this examina-
ton. I asserted. filing a protest.
Notwithstanding Protest.
II was ordered to give the examination
in spite OF this protest. I appealed the
case to Mr.. Chamberlain, who stated that
he thought the principal had the right to
command me to give an examination after
the matinee examina ton. Upon my IN
quiry whether this did not mean that he
could command me to give another and
then still another. he said he thought that
did not necessarily follow.
The new rule making one condition de-
bar pupils from interhigh school athletics
will be but q sham, similar to the ones
pointed out to Mr.. Needham In June, 1905,
McCiure's.
Pressure is to be exerted upon the teach
ers to pass pupils whether they are qualified
or not Surely II one condition In scholar
ship should debar pupil from athletics.
cheating surely should. I call attention to
the cheating of the oarsman. DAILY, in the
final examinations at Yale last June, where
upon he was Immediately debarred from
rowing in the intercollegiate contest.
Since this Is the first case Of a teacher
being ordered In the Mckinley, by Mr..
Gardeners own admission. to give additional
examinations, and the only case in the
high schools before mentioned. 1t is an I'M
portant precedent
ERNEST was suspended from English
class for repeated failure in Rotations
The principal sent him home until his
mother should be seen. After an Interview
with his mother. in which she threatened
me with one Of the trustees, the principal
reinstated the bay. During an interview
which took place in the Office the mother
became excited and as there was quite an
audience I withdrew. After the reinstate-
ment Ernest still came unprepared, and
was asked to hand in his work after school
found him in the act of copying the work
from one OF the boys. and took both papers
which / still have. I reported the case to
the principal. Ernest was absent from the
ENGLISH class for two days, AZ punish
meflt although part Of the time saw him
In the study haA"
Mrs Larner Declines to Talk.