Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-05
Object to Paying Into Funds of
State Every Time They
Turn Around
SEE NO REASON FOR THEIR TAX
Effort Will BE Made to Secure Amend
mont to Certificate Law-Fees for
Examinations, for Certificates, for
Attendance Upon Institutes and for
Other Matters.
Special to 1imes-Republican

Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. Sat the next
| session of the legislature the teach
ers of Iowa will be up with a OH
| abolishing the system OF charging
| teachers fees every time they turn
| around as one OF them expressed IL.
! At the Sioux City meeting OF lne
Northwestern Iowa Teachers Associa-
ton recently resolutions were passed
condemning this feature of the new
teachers certificate law. The new law
however. only follows the lead of prec-
edent in the matter. ln the Sioux
City resolutions the paragraph was
NOT worded SO as to be clearly UNDER
stood by the reading public tho clear
enough to the teachers. 1t was Woroed
that the law was condemned as m
terpreted by the attorney general.
This might seem to imply the entire
law. The intention was only as TO
the paragraph where the law requires
fees of the teachers.
In the meeting of the southwestern
association at Council Bluffs last week
the matter was explained more fully
and the association condemned the luea
of charging fees of school teachers.
The state charges the teacher lee OF
81 when she takes the examination
and another dollar when she regis.
tiers the certificate and IL she goes 10
another county to teach she must reg
lister the certificate there also and pay
another fee, OF 81.
1t is pointed out that the state as
sists most everybody in the state but
the teachers. There is provision
appropriating money from the state
treasury to assist every county and
district farmers institute. During the
year Of 1906 the state of Iowa paid
$5,623.46 to aid farmers Institutes IN
getting speakers and other assist
ance and $16,596.23 TO county fairs OF
Iowa. 1t paid not cent for the as
sistance of the teachers institutes In
getting speakers. Each teacher is re-
CURED to attend the teachers insti-
tutes and each is required to pay
fee again and these fees pay for the
speakers. If a teacher attends the
county institute she pays her first fee.
Then when she goes to the district in
stitute she pays another and if she at
tends the state association meeting
she pays another. Then there are the
fees mentioned above for the eXamina-
ton and registrations.
The teachers demand that the state
appropriate. money for their benefit just
as it does the farmers. The farmers
are all heralded as being prosperous
and the most independent creatures on
EARTH while the newspapers are full
of information on how low the wages
of the poor school teacher is. The
teachers think this is reason enough
for abolishing the fees. They think too
that it is reason enough for the state
to make an appropriation and pay for
the speakers who address the teach
ers' institutes just as it does for those
who address the farmers Institutes.
They say that the state is abundantly
able to afford it and since it requires
attendance on the institute it should
pay the expenses.
The teachers associations of the
state all but the Northeastern, have
passed resolutions in favor Of this
and it will no doubt result in asking
the next legislature to act