Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-03
PROBLEM or scHoon TEACHER

PROBLEM or SCHOOL TEACHERS.
The familiar ordeal OF the school.
teachers qualifications is being forciblY
presented in the city of Ogden.
The Board desires the teachers 70 "a a Z
tend summer school and the annual
State convention for teachers as part
or their yearly duties. Some addition
al pay is provided, but not, perhaps.
the fun equivalent for the additional
time thus required. The teachers are
therefore objecting to these new pro-
visions in their contracts.
The latest information is that the
teachers Of the Ogden public schools 1
Who do not sign their contracts for the.
next school year by Tuesday after
noon may have to look elsewhere tor
employment At the last meeting Oh
the board OF education a second peu-
ton. signed by ninety-two teachers
MAS received@in which additional oe-
n,ands were made The teachers OBJ
iected to the clause In the contract
which required them to attend state
| teachers, conventions and summer
schools. In the former petition III re re-. +
| ceiyed last week the teachers objected
b, the clause which withheld a poftaio,nil
of their salary each month TO fr ss 81.
tho breaking or the CONTRACT;
The provisions OF the contract seem en-
sea sonable enough. especially the last
one why should teachers pc per
ted Ia break their contracts with
,,e schools at their own pleasure \ or
convenience and without regard 70 tfe
effects that such action might nave on
| the schools?
| The clause requiring teachers TO at
| tend summer schools and the annual
educational convention is q good one me :.
| ii tends to the Improvement OF lhe
schnoIs by the improvement Oh st'ie
a., ~, ars. 1t makes the calling OF inc
=. n ar more strictly professional bue
If also takes up the time heretotote q
tbe teachers own disposal; and there
| in lies the whole difficulty
4 sIs the city willing to pay the lea l'
ers for this extra time? II SO, " can
.nerceiye no valid objection to us en-
4 folcement. !.
rrha teachers calling has become more
,nd more Improbable in recent years
4 Teachers wages have not 5r 1l'E !; :
4 changed ii, the past decade tnous"
4 he requirements made OF TINS proles !
.;an Ia vc become much more eSaclins
,r,,o reault is that the large majority
sthe teachers. are young ladies, mos
Of whom do not expect to contlnVe 'o.'s
.s teachers. The average term I'm ~
~ u "a ehers is less than three years ga
d rbat ia they teach just long enousi
10 learn how to teach, SERVING sliiereis I
t.ir !, nnrenttccship, and then leave IN
Il school room.
W. do not blame the lady teachers
3 for leaving the school room out -
oft1cinntyy Of school work Is greatly ~ "
a;,aa when most Of it Is conducted q
amateurs. BY universal consent. teacl'
irp Is tho highest form Of human SCI
vice; and if the poorest KING OF Noe'
tions suffer from the predomin' i :
tyros In the work, what must be u
& loss To the q community as a. whole 1roi
, tho continuous removal OF most Oh u
: rnl,v trained members Of tho teachln
: professiong
The public has been perfectly within
i IA ADVANCE the pay of the builders q
:. n,nmher. and of those who supply n
terial mart of the school expense
h,,t{i has not been deemed necessar
Ia advance the pay of teachers. III
! inevitable result has followed thei
are few permanent professional tecahel
Z and many unframed for temporal
Z ones.
): The ogden school board is moving
The right direction. Teachers ousf
"A "a attena the educational agencies thu
5nrayide for their professional traif
ing. But they ought also TO be pa
for so doing. In our opinion, NOR
over, there should be more men in Il
!. schools; the undue preponderance :
!, female teachers has other disadval
. IA aes than the important ones ju
!, mentioned that most of them expo
"A and hope To aiesiVit LIE asStioo'io'o''i
the earliest opportunity. Men are nee
!, ed for mparting more of strength, ru
a gedness. discipline. to the education
i American boys and girls. Charact
IA Is the principal and the highest thu
I that education imparts. 1t Is acauir
! partly by nrecept. partly by practii
&c partly by unconscious imitation
u hoy or girl should go through the grad
i 4 ol the public school without coming Il
der the training. discipline and
A. flucncc of men as well as wome
isfl strength and iirmness are needed, qu
,a as much as the artistic tendencies a
ar the mental culture that comes FRI
f. mere grammatical study, For tbs
purposes the presence and power
he men seem Indispensable. The syl
X metrical or complete development
Id the pupil requires that be learn FRI
n and initiate men as well as women.
ba These are reasons, however, that
aa average man or woman may not
he able fully TO appreciate. Nevertl
a. less, all can perceive that permaner
is necessary to skiIlful work in
,at calling; and it is men only who, as
ice rule, can make of teaching their !
lid work.
The only way. therefore, in which
Ter do much for the advancement of Z