Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-31

gle day because of sickness or accidents
Iappning to the regular teachers. pre-
venting them temporarily from perform
ing their duties as such teachers. Inc
priy way to keep them in operation. Is
to substitute the service OF teacher
temporarily for the teacher who is ao-
sent and I am satisfied that the power
10 employ and pay substitutes Is given
nv necessary Implication to the board Of
education in the provision quoted by the
auditor, that the control OF the puonc
schools of the District of Columbia Is
hereby vested in board OF education.
and must be exercised to enforce the
general law as regards the pay ana EN-
poyment OF teachers in order TO meet the
emergency conditions brought about by
The failure of regular teachers to be pres
ent at the daily sessions OF the schooi IN
which they are employed.
May Not FARM the Places.
The controller says that at present
teacher is not an officer whose salary
goes with the appointment, but that she
must give dollars worth of time for
dollar in pay. He also says:
The power to adopt rules and resu-
lations in order to supply substitute teach
ers or temporary teachers in place OF
those who on account of sickness or
other causes fail temporarily to perform
the duties for which they are appointed
does not carry with ii the power, under
the guise of "a rule or regulation, or
the waiver of rules and regulations al
ready made by the school boa.d, to
farm out these places and allow teach
srs to be paid salaries which they have
not earned by the performance of the
duties of their places on the payment
by them to substitutes of much smaller
amounts"
Further on the decision says:
is m tn G
eral rule teacher can be procured
as a substitute 70. an entire school year
Tor $1,000 and properly I'LL the place OF
4 teacher whose compensation Is hXed
oy law at $500 per annum. If such can
De accomplished it is perfectly apparent
hat the regular teachers are being paid
more than double what their services
are actually worth. / do not believe such
$ the case. If one teacher is authorized
- farm out her place all otner teach
.rs are entitled to the same privilege
May Employ Substitutes.
1T follows from what has been said
ibove that the school board may en-
,loy in emergency substitutes for teach
.rs and pay these substitutes salaries
lot greater than they could secure il
.egularly employed. The amount Of pay
If teachers in the schools of Washing
on uDUeT the law UepciIuS upon SCA tain
qualifications and length of teaching
therein. A teachers right to compen-
alton depends on the rendition Of Serv-
.ces and not the mere holding OF place
as a teacher Therefore they cannot be
paid for time they are not In perform
ance of the duties for which they hold
appointments"
Supt. Stuart's Comment.
A. T. Stuart. Superintendent of schools
said today that he had heard nothing OF
the controllers decision officially. but
that il 1T abolished the system now en-
ployed for the use OF substitutes in the
schools during the absence of the regu-
ar teacher and did not offer a new plan
oy which substitutes might be employed
when a teacher was ill Or absent from
he school for any other reason, the
schools would have to be closed until the
.eacher was able to resume her posi-
ion, or legislation remedying the ruling
lad been enacted.