The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-02

graduates of the state normal school from entering the New Haven schools until they had gone outside and ob- tained the necessary experience. l believe it a better plan to keep the minimum at $350, with $450 for the second year, and to continue to take into the schools as many as possible of the local graduates of the normal school, thereby giving them an oppor- tunity to demonstrate their fitness for permanent appointment as teachers in our schools At the present time there are at work in our schools twen- ty-six graduates of the class of 1907, state normal school, residents of New Haven. These local girls are glad of the opportunity to take these first year probationary appointments at S350. It must be borne in mind that the school year in New Haven covers only 19O days, or thirty-eight weeks of five days each.
 In many cities normal school gradu- ates do not receive immediate appoint ment in the schools, but must serve several years as substitutes without regular appointment, being paid $1.5O or | $2.00 per day when actually employed. In Providence, for instance, a teacher
 must have had at least two years of l experience, and often three, before re- Ieceiving regular appointment. The | minimum salary at Providence Is not l paid any teacher for her first year oi
 teaching, but for her first year of ser vice as a regular appointed teacher. I'll should be remembered that at almos
 any specified salary, an inexperienced
 first-year teacher is a risk"
 High School Teachers.
 | have always opposed and still op , pose the adoption, of a fixed schedule o
 minimum and maximum salaries fo the teachers employed in our higl schools. The schedule submitted by tn teachers committee for salaries of higl } school teachers is as follows:
 Minimum. Maximum : Men ..............$1,00 ,000 $2,00 Women ........... 750 LEO I Men (manual work) .... 800 1,6O v Women (manual work) 800 1,2O e The following resignations. were an
 nounced by Superintendent Beede
 Mary E. Musson, Cedar street kinder
 l garten, October IT, Susette Ashe e Humphrey street school, room l. grad : street school, assistant in grade s, Nc
 vefnber ].
 l. The following transfers were reporte
 and adoGted:
 Erma l. Pratt from the principalshii d the principalship of the Cedar stree kindergarten, to take effect october ?. Mabel Close, from the position of as ); sistant in the Fair street Kndergarte ]; to the principalship of the Carlis
 street Kindergarten, to take effect octf " Margaret M. Fox from Fair stree e, room l. grade 1, to Humphrey stret
 room l, grade 1, to take effect Noven
 Der 1.
 'e In my opinion, this proposed schedu '- is untenable and absurd. If adopte 'o New Haven would be precluded, wha
 ever the circumstances might be, fro IS employing any man in It's high schoo es except in manual work, at a low It salary than $1,00O, As matter a fact, it has often happened that Ne !; Haven has been able to obtain t 5, services of competent and experience rs men teachers for less than $1,000. T S, opportunities offered by the universi IS for graduate study attracts to this ci
 many men who are glad to teach su our high school at a lower salary tn IL they would accept elsewhere. The e1 " ployment of these men, at a sala ie mutually agreed upon, is of advanta IT. to them and to the school. It seel ln to me a violation of ordinary comm le sense to adopt a schedule which wol g. render it impossible for the board oy utilize this situation. l have neN .lo agreed in opinion with those who ( IT. feet to the maintenance of a hi ne school at public expense. The time ny such an attitude has long since pass a believe that we should be hea ne and appreciative in the support oft 0o department of our school system, a l.. that we should pay salaries lal @ enough to provide first-class schC m m,- At the same time, the fact cannot ae ignored that high school is an
 pensive institution. The salary list ,nt our high school for the present y , is S64,S75. This is about 1-6 ofs the ( oIS salaries paid for all the schools, o1 though only about 1-9 of the teach a~ staff are high school teachers and o oo1 Ill of all the pupils in the pu' 1,,a schools are high school pupils. nd cost per pupil for high school edu of tion is more than double that in 1A.. i. oc. stances it seems to me that in i+ management of the school busir tbe principles should prevail and that ood committee should be left free to sec aw- the services of competent teachers tbe such salaris as it deems best to ,ol- without the limitations imposed by
 of adoption of a hard-and-fast sa
 If schedule.
 fter In the second place, the prop, uld schedule would preclude the emp als, ment of women in the high school, ef- cept in manual work, at less than ob- per year. The payment of this sa who would necessarily demand the emp tual ment of only experienced teachers.
 of would result in a serious setback to llti- employment of New Haven young ary men who have gone to college from our high school, and are anxious to ge per- start as high school teachers.
 re- For a number of years past, 1t h been the policy of the committee to