Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-06-12

Average per month ....... .SIIS.oo
Average per year ........ 81 Al 90
Head clerks ................. .SI25.oo
CIerkS ................. o5.oo
Delivery men ............... 1000
Average per month .So3 90
Average per year .........SI, boo
Female clerks $3.50. 90
County officials 81 ,ooS.oo
County deputies ........... 1,Io4 90
Male teachers, average wage
per month ................S 1854
Male teachers, average wage
per year -...-.......... 943'I5
Female teachers, ACREAGE wage
per month ................. 5o.24
Female teachers, average wage
per year oo2.9l
Examination OF the above table
shows that male teachers receive
about $500 per year less than railroad
employees, and almost $500 per year
less than other male employees. In
road employees receive free transpor-
tation, and the clerks, frequently, a
discount on goods furnished.
Female teachers receive about SIPS
a year more than other female en-
ployes, but it should be remembered
that the teacher Is subjected to a
heavy expense for books, magazines,
travelling to and from her school, and
attending teachers meetings and
summer institutes. The female clerks
also generally receive some discount
on goods purchased. while teachers
do not, and so the teacher, although
required to expend from four to six
years in special training and many
hundreds of dollars to prepare her
self, is financially little If any better
off than the female clerk, who can
begin to earn her salary with no
preparation whatever.
A further examination will show
that male teachers receive less than
onc-half the salary of county offici;
and female teachers only little moi
than one-third, while both receive
considerably less than deputy county
officials. II will show that teach
ers, although expected to be the best
equipped of all public employees, re-
ccive the least salary of any of the
public servants.
1t is often asserted that teach
er's work is easy and that the num-
Der of hours of work is less than
is required in any other avocation.
This is emphatically a mistake. Ev-
cry conscientious teacher spends
from an hour to three hours per day
outlining work and preparing for the
work within the school room. Any
male teacher who has had experience
in various kinds of labor will tell
YOU that after hard days teaching
he is physically as weary as after
a hard day OF manual labor, and the
female teacher who has also been a
clerk, will tell you the same thing.
Moreover the nervous strain and re-
sponsibility to which she is subjected
is tremendous and it is a fact that
few teachers last more than twenty
years within the school room II is
also a curious fact that the person
who has the responsibility of man
aging property worth a few thousand
dollars is paid for assuming the re-
sDonsibility. but the teacher, who has
the responsibility of hundreds OF
young lives upon his shoulders. IS
paid for the work alone, and ex-
pected to assume the responsibility
gratis.
Cost of schools:
Total amount expended
Goo7) .................. .S+o,o3o.oo
Number pupils enrolled :. 1881
Cost per capita ..........S sSoo
Average school tax in county
(including special bond
and interest tax) .......II.S mills
Average school tax in cities
(including special bond
and interest taxi .IS.o mills
County tax ...............1o 10 mills
Average city tax .........Io mills
An examination Of the above tab
les will show that it costs but $2S
per year apiece for the education o.
the children of the county, little more
than is paid for the convenience OF
a telephone or for electric light. 1t
will show that it costs almost as
much to run our city governments
as it does to educate all the hundreds
of children in the cities.
This pamphlet cannot go into the
relative importance of educating our
children and conducting our city gov
ernments, but il il be true that the
most valuable asset of any eommun-
ity is good citizens, and that edu-
cation more than any other factor
makes for good citizenship, then the
cost OF our municipal governments
as compared with the cost of our
schools is out OF proportion, and the
school, while returning by far the
most to the community, is the most
poorly supported.
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