The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-04-27
BOARD HAS
BIG PROBLEM
Teachers Without Certifi.
Gates Cannot Finish Year.
NO PAY FORTHCOMING
No Pay Unless Teachers
Have Certificates.
School Examiners May Issue Tenn
porsry Certificates Principal
Wants School Yard for Ball Field

A quite unusual and difficult situa-
tion faced the local board of educa-
tion at regular meeting Monday
evening when 1t developed that a
number of the certificates of the city
school teachers had expired with the
! beginning of the month of April and
| that two of the teachers who took
the examination to secure new certi-
| ficates had failed. Whether or not
the board of examiners may grant
them provisional certificates accord
ing to the law, is unknown.
The board was much puzzled with
the matter at the meeting last even
! ing and II was finally decided to re-
quest the examining board to grant
temporary certificates in order to
avoid changes. Clerk Jacoby had
notified the board of education that
he could not lawfully draw orders for
the payment of the teachers, and
unless the examining board finds it.
self able to grant provisional certifl-
Gates, the work of the teachers from
that time will probably not be paid
for The board of education does
not wish to employ strangers to take
up the work for the remaining six
weeks of the school year.
It also developed ut the meeting
that the board had been accustomed
TO employ teachers Sor the year when
i'm many cases the teachers hold cer-
tihcates for only a part of the year
as is the case with those who failed
at the recent examination. The
board looked the matter up and
found that only teachers with certih-
Gates for the entire time for which
they are employed may be allowed
TO teach. In the future 1t is believed
that the board will be embarrassed
no more by such troubles as examina-
tions will be conducted in June, July
and August so that at the beginning
OF the school year the teachers shall
have had the opportunity of taking
the examinations granting certificates
for the full year during which they
may be employed by the board
One of the teachers who failed is a
third grade teacher, while the other
is an assistant. Both are said to be
very competent teachers, one having
taught three years in the schools
and the other having been employed
last fall. Good reasons are given for
their failure, sickness and death hav-
ing visited the family of one of the
young women shortly before the ex-
animation. Their names are withheld.
Many minor matters were given at
tention by the board last evening.
Member CUTLERY and Clerk Jacoby
were absent. ii. Il. Hill kept the
record. The annual enumeration OF
the school children of the city was
ordered and Member Dickerson pre-
sented a resolution asking that his
assistants be divided equally among
the Republican and Democratic par
ties They will be paid three cents
per name. The enumeration will
be taken at once
Superintendent Frank reported that
effort had been made to secure
speaker but that no selection has
been made, An effort was made to
obtain s. Paakes Cadman for the
commencement exercises in June.
A meeting OF the board members
with the bankers of the city will be
held in the Office of IT, Il. Hill next
Saturday evening and the matter of
making a depository for the school
funds will be taken up and also the
matter of borrowing money. President
J Spaulding thought that the board