The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-11

teal must sometimes be measured on
the basis of successful experience quite
as much as upon scholarship. Hence,
the board must have reasonable lati-
tude III making selections.
Maximum Salaries.
'Principals and supervisors come in
is $1,000 and the maximum S2400. \
high school principal has a maximum
of $4,000 Owing to the varied nature
of the work and the responsibility in
the different branches, the salaries of
special teachers and directors arc not
fixed by schedule. Ordinarily, they
should range from 500 to $1,000, &C,
cording to the kind of work and the
extent of the responsibility,
''In its essential respects the salary
scheme should now remain permanent.
The only adjustment necessary is per-
haps in the direction of increased
maximum salaries for teachers, and a
movement from the tenmonth To the
twelve-month basis. With an attain
able $1,000 for the elementary school
teacher and at least $500 for the high
school instructor, apportioned into
twelve monthly installments, teaching
will come to have significance and a
rank in the professional and business
world not yet accorded. And along
with more substantial recognition OF
professional service Will come more ex-
acting requirements and the logical con-
comitant-even better service
"Under present conditions fairly lib
eral provisions have been made for
principals. AS soon, however, as at
least the equivalent of full college
course, together with the other neces-
sary qualifications. including ripe ex-
perience III the schoolroom. may be
fixed as prerequisite TO appointment,
and the force so organized as to place
thirty to thirty five teachers under a
principal of meritcd maximum rank, the
system will get from a salary of $4,000
more than value received,
Women Are Recognized
"In the interests Of justice and
fairness and evidently on the assump-
tion that the product Of the, effort
measured in terms of class advance
ment should determine salary, the state
constitution prescribes that for equal
work, women shall receive equal com
pensation. In professional and busi-
ness affairs there are so many more ave-
nues of employment open to men than
to women, that seem more inviting to
men than teaching because they are
more lucrative. This condition has
in recent years with the natural result
that constantly decreasing number
of aggressive and promising young men
take up teaching as a life work.
Although formerly salaries were
not so high as now, so too inducements
then in other lines of effort were not
so inviting as now, and the teaching
profession received yearly many Of the
bright young men graduates. But the
,hor nplu nni no
present time salary of SIS or $50 will
command the services of irst-class
lady teacher and fair or perhaps
only mediocre man. A few exceptions
in our own city have come in the cases
of men who have entered our service
on salaries far below those they could
obtain in business, or even in country
districts. Identification with a large
system where merit has full recogni
tion in promotions seems in their minds
TO justify the sacrifice.
Significant Fact Remains.
'sBut the significant fact remains
that the number of capable male teach.
.ers available for primary or grammar
grade work IS so small as to make it
practically a negligible quantity The
careful observer must have noted that
the immediate future holds out little
hope for adjustment. Normal gradual
Ing classes are coming to be more and
moro girls classes. The ambitious
young man finishing high school, who
gives a moment g serious thought to
teac hing as possible, field of effort,
is indeed very rare. Within recent
years not single boy graduating
from our high school has taken a nor
NAL course, while nearly 90 per cent
of the graduates from the state normal
each year are girls who have completed
courses In our city high school.
"Any intelligent boy knows that |
teaching holds ont absolutely no induce.
ment to him in the way of remunera-
tive employment, While his final pos.
sibiities in terms Of success are as |
great as those of the competing girl |