Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1909-12-22
MAL|NGER|NG WILL
COST TEACHERS IN
KEARNY DAYS PAY
Board of Education Decides to
Be Stricter with Cases of
Alleged Sickness.

Pretty kearny teachers must be
pretty sick teachers if they would draw
pay henceforth while absent from duty.
This is the latest dictum of the Kearny
Board of Education, and is the result
it is claimed, of some abuse of the
boards leniency. Heretofore, whenever
a teacher produced a physicians certifi-
cate that she was ill, even though she
had but the slightest cold, the school
board found substitute instructor and
relieved the sick teacher on full pay
until she recovered her health.
In few cases some teachers have,
SO it is asserted, imposed on the board's S
good nature and taken advantage of
the respite from work to go visiting
and shopping, when they did not need
lessly take things easy at home. AS
the trustees must now deal with So
teachers, including the supervisors, the
trustees feel that Kearny is now big
enough to deal with such questions in
a business-lil5e way, disregarding all
sentiment except in extreme cases.
At last nights meeting of the board
a resolution was adopted that s1.5o
day shall hereafter be deducted from
the salary of each teacher who is alb
order that provision be made for pay
ing a substitute. Where, however, a
very worthy case of distress is brought
to the notice of the board, the latter
will act with leniency.
Although there had been many ap-
plications for the position of Janltor OF
the new Lincoln School, now nearly
completed, the contest narrowed down
to William Moock, son of Mrs. Moock,
who has been taking care of old School
No. 1. on Schuyler avenue, for nearly a
a generation. He was nominated last
night by Trustee Frobisher and chosen
without opposition.
Much discussion was caused by the
lack of reports from the recently ap-
pointed medical inspectors DIR. John
w. Reid, chairman of the staff, report
ed that the doctors had organized and
that the work of each had been as
signed to him and that much had been
done already, although not formulated
in a report 1t was the sense of the
meeting that every effort should be
made to get the work Of inspecting
done in the most thoroughly, sys-
tematic manner possible and application
will be made at once to the State Board
of Education for the necessary blanks.
Superintendent Herman Dressed, jr.,
reported the total registration of pupils
for the month as 2,7S9, and the total
attendance for November 46,4S2. Mr..
Dressed stated that manual training
had been introduced into the high
school and owing to the limited ac-
commodations, it was necessary to re-
strict the number of pupils, who were
eager to take up the work. He noted
much progress in handicraft in the
schools, and that not only is needle
work taught, but that pupils are now
shown how to draft garments and con-
struct them With the facilities to be
afforded in the new Lincoln School, he
expected marked results in manual
training and cookery.
The School Board is going to apply to
the Town Council for appointment Of
the janitors as special policemen. At
tendance at the Night School was re-
ported as averaging 22S in the present
month. The schools will close for the
holidays on Friday of this week and re-
open on January 3