The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-13
Revenue May Pay Salaries Of
High School Teachers Soon.
The Schools Are Improving Rapidly
and Offer Great Inducements
to County Pupils.
BETTER RESULTS NEXT YEAR

lnat the Iaducah puDllc SCHOOLS
are nearing type of perfection
equalled by few public school sys-
TENS is evidenced in the fact that an
increase of 33 per cent has been
made in the number OF tuition
pupils this year over last year, and il
the increase continues. and the pro-
posed improvements in the county
schools are carried through, within
a few years the tuition pupils in the
Paducah public schools will be suffi-
cient to support the high school
teaching force, or a large portion of
It, at least.
1t is proposed that drawing and
music with a better course of Eng
lish be installed in the county
schools. II this is done the county
pupils will be able to enter the high
school after graduating from the
county schools, without an examina-
ton, and this will encourage more
county pupils to come to the city to
finish their education.
There are many county teachers
who desire to come into the public
schools as teachers, but few ever sue
ceed because of the fact that It re-
quiros harder and more thorough
work to pass through the REQUESTS
city examinations than county, and
few county school graduates ever be
come city school teachers.
To encourage the advancement of
the city schools the officials have
given Supt. Lieb permission to make
a speciality of soliciting tuition pupils
but little of this class of work has
been done on account of the small
facilities at present The teachers
will work for more tuition pupils.
however. that the income be suffi-
Client to support one or two addi-
tlonal teachers in the high school de-
partment
"In Maryville. Mo-, my home"
Supt. Lieb stated this morning, "the
tuition pupils alone pay for more
than half the teachers in the high
schools, and find this in many other
towns even a great deal smaller than
Paducah, and see no reason why the
Paducah schools should not have
more tuition pupils. The fact that
private schools are fast disappearing
in Padueah indicates the advance
ment of the public schools, and while
IT is a long pull to this end, We in
tend to start a campaign and secure
tuition pupils sufficient to cut some
figure in the financial end"
On account of the present teaching
facilities in the high schools, admis-
sion OF tuition pupils is not encour-
aged TO a great extent. The teach
ers have their hands full as 1t is with
home pupils, but next year 1t is ex-
pected that one additional teacher
will be added to this department and
the campaign can be started.
Supt. Lieb has received permission
from the majority of the board mem
bers to attend the annual meeting of
the superintsndents and college men
of the National Educational Associa-
ton at Louisville on the 27th and
2Sth of February and list of March.
This will probably be the most inn
portant national educational meeting
this year and Mr.. Lieb is anxious to
attend.
There are three teachers out of
school on account of illness, but their
Illness is not serious.
Miss Mary Owen Murray, of the
departmental work, and Mrs. Kate
Stuart. of the first grade Washington
buildings and Miss Esther Boyd. Of
the Longfellow building, are Ill.
Their places are being filled by sub
stitutes.