The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-05

"hlNerslly oHers to teachers of the X nigh school. If the opportunity of I
 sakingl postgraduate work in the uai-
 Yersity Is an advantage to the teacher
 coupled with no corresponding disad- |
 vantage to the school, then it is ob- 1
 vious that the excuse for deducting I
 from the salary of the teacher. the |
 value Of this opportunity must be ac- |
 companied by an open and shameless 1
 confession that the positions are open i
 to the lowest bidders" But, on the
 other hand, if the advantage to the
 teacher means a corresponding disad-
 vantage to the school by consuming
 HIS time and energy, then what right
 mas the board of education to hire
 such teachers? It may be that money
 has been saved by paying for only r remnant of the time and attention of
 these teachers. But, citizens of New
 Haven, did you know this and did you
 authorize it? Either the post-gradu-
 ate work is no disadvantage to the
 school in which case the lowest bid
 der' policy is the only possible excuse
 for deducting it's value from the salary
 Of the teacher, or it is disadvantage
 to the school in which case the board
 of education has assumed an unwar-
 rantable license in thus deliberately
 damaging the, interests of the school
 Now which of these alternatives is
 true? That the board of education has
 not in the past considered the post
 graduate work of teachers disad-
 vantage to the school is evidenced by
 the fact that 1t has been strongly rec
 commended and encouraged. Under Mr.
 4-endall's administration the teachers were so strongly urged to take post
 graduate work that some of them came ] almost to consider it a requirement. It
 Ea5 MT. Kendalls contention that
 teacA3rs should continually take work
 of this kind not for their own per- l sonal benefit, but for the benefit of the
 school The teachers were thus urged
 almost required, to pay out their own
 money to keep themselves in proper
 training for their service 1to the city.
 By what logic, then, does MT Moran
 propose to deduct from the teachers
 salary the value of a privilege which
 is at the same time a&ssty urged upon
 the teacher in order that he may meet
 the requirements of his position? To
 defraud the teachers of this privilege
 MT. Moran would advocate, the main-
 taining of our high school as a har-
 Dor refuge for young men (from every Ieity in the Union) who wish to pursue Egraduate work at Yale while the tax
 payers of this city would gladly and willingly support them during the
 specified time while their own sons and
 daughters who have right to expect positions in the school which they sup port must eke out an existence else where. Our university Is certainly to be congratulated in the bait thrown out to her by MT. Moran to entics more young ifen to her graduate do. 1 partment
 Again MT, Moran calls attention tc the fact that there are varying de. srees of ability among high schoo | .teachersR Everybody will admit that not only among high school teacher. but among teachers in all schools ant Icolleges; in supervising principals even in superintendents.
 | Nay, to go further; 1t is true amons congressmen cabinet officers and ever among presidents.
 But in the long run it has beer found wise tof fix definite salary fol these positions and the American peo. (ple have endorsed and approved o this metMod
 f Among teachers here in the higr ; school we must infer that the varying degrees of ability are So self-evident that it can be measured by few dol 7 lars. MT. Moran has rarely, if ever \ visited the actual work Of teachers in the high school, and even if he did what qualification does he possess that would enable him to judge whether the pupils were giving the proper pro- { nuncation of French words, the prin. | cipal parts of a German verb CT tht [ correct solution of a problem of trig. onometry? iIs 1t not untenable, absurd and unjust for Mir Moran or his com [ rnittee which does not take the trouble to acquaint themselves with the worl [ of the teachers to dictate the salary high school teacher shall receive?
 Under the circumstances a schedul, 2 is the only fair and just solution O :" the problem.
 le Over one hundred cities, including a Providence, ninety-three of which ar j. smaller than New Haven, have n schedule for high school teachers. d Are not the local high school teach re CTS worthy of equal consideration, es Is pecially in view of the records of it of graduates in college?
 a To say that high school teachers re De sent this discrimination against ther )e is putting it mildly, and during tn D. past few days some have taken tn a New York city examinations in orde a. to work in a city where even hig a. school teachers have a fair and jus n schedule.
 et comparison of the methods pur lo sued by the board of education an ~ those by the teachers league is inter la esting and instructive. Last Februar ee the committee on schools, of whic .o MT. Moran is chairman, took up tn U question of new schedule and wit le the aid of Superintendent Beede is el sued their famous tentative frame 1U work in June, which was unanimousl Fl condemned as inadequate and unsatis
 factory. This schedule has barrel , been in operation two months whe 'i the chairman of the committee, with Ie out the approval of the other member |! of the committee, introduces and ha w endorsed important changes in the ez :, isting schedule.
 v On the other hand, when the teach VI CTS first organized a salary committe