Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-29
Supervising Janitor Discourte-
GUS to Lady Principals.
CHARGES ARE SUSTAINED
statements from Four Principals Sub
stantiate Accusations Of Superlnten'
dent of Schools jenkins Against
Supervising Janitor.


ments Of the principals OF four OF the
white grammar schools in substahtiA-
tion of the charges preferred by SUI
nerintendent of Schools wills A. Jeh-
kins against Supervising Janitor j.
| G. Briley. the school board commit
tees on finance and buildings ana
grounds. in Joint session last night'
decided to report TO the board tha'
the charges had been sustained ana u
recommend that Mr.. Bribley De Sc
yerely reprmanded and notified tha'
in case of any further evidence OF ais
cour,eousness to the principals MS
services will be dispensed with with-
out question.
The effect OF the charge tina. MI
Rrilev is discourtcous and dictatoriai
to the principals will result in com
nloto denomination for the janitor de-
partment. The joint committee rec
ommended to the board that the ruies
and regulations committee be request
ed to revise the rules of the board III
so far as they apply to the Janitof-
in-chief and the janitors of the va
rious schools and so arrange the
rules that the janitor-in-chief shali
report to and receive instructions
from the principals of the SCHOOLS
at which they are employed.
system Completely Reorganlzed
Under the present rules. the JAM
tors arc responsible to the janltor-
in-chief. who in turn is responsible
m the committee on buildings and
grounds. This system has resulted
in much dscord and strife between
the superintendent and the janitors
and the principals and the Janltors-
Under the new arrangement, the SUI
perintendent will be the head of every
department of the school and VIII De
responsible to the board and the com-
mittee on buildings and grounds. Inc
ianitors will no longer be under the
direction of Mr. Briley.
At the last meeting of the school
board. Supt. jenkins charged that MI
Briley tried to run the schools, die
tating to the principals when it did
not please him to do the work entail
ed by such orders. The entire matter
was referred TO the joint committee
and Clerk Tabb wrote to the princi-
pals of the four white grammer
schools for statements.
Statements from Principals.
Statements were received from Miss
Mamie Howison. principal of school
No. 2: Miss Gertrude Davis. principal
OF school No. 4 Miss COrinia Evans,
principal of school No. 3. All of the
teachers reported that Mr.. Briley had
refused to carry out instructions from
them and Misses Evans. MacVicar
and Davis reported that he had been
disrespectful to them on various oc-
cssions.
The charges were taken up one Dy
one and Mr.. Briley was given an OPP
portunity to defend himself. He de-
MED knowledge of many Of them,
while he could not remember in other
cases. He admitted only one and that
was that he had stated that If Miss
Davis wanted certain kind OF desks
before he could move them from one
room to another she could move her
class into the room in which the lar
ger desks were located. He said that
in this instance he meant no dlsre-
spect to Miss Davis. He merely
meant to say that he eorld not move
| the desks that day.
As six of the nine members Of the
| board compose the two committees
the repor. Of the board in this matter
unquestionably will be adopted. lac
members present were: President w
| Z. Pickett. and J. p. Harrison. r. &
Bivins. John Christie. G. Albert Len7
/ and {. V. Sutton.
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