The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-06

recommendation OF the superintendent
was handed In.
when 1t came 10 lending assistance
10 the new supervisor ! was considered
Of good enough authority to offer sug-
Seslions which, let me say, were accept
ed and followed. When educators from
Australia visited Salt Lake they report
cd that their visit to the primary GRADES
Of the Salt Lake schools repaid them
for their visit to this country. II / had
succeeded In aligning the teachers
usefulness and threaten the whole sys-
tenn or the primary grades, how mistaken
those foreign educators must have been
in their estimation of the work accom-
pllshed In this department over which /
had supervision.
In the educational display at ST.
Louis the Salt Lake display OF the
adopted plan Of coordianational work In
teaching geography and nature study was
declared by the foremost educators OF
the land To be the best work seen at the
great display. Do not think me brag-
ging when ] say / arranged that work
II was my own system worked out, And
all this after the time l was supposed
to be backward in my work. In way
| have been wronged but I can only
laugh when think of the lengthy dis
cusslons at the board meeting over this
and that, when all the time the ma jority
Of the board knew how the vote would
stand and the discussions. had they last
ed till doomsdav would not have altered
Il single vote OF the majority.
GLOW funny of Mr.. Martin 10 OFFER to
allow me TO resign. That part of the
meeting TO me was the funniest OF 1t all
When see Mr.. Martin ] shall thank him
for his attempted kindness in my behalf
also shall tell him how impossible it
would have been for me to take advan-
tage of his overgenerous disposition.
Points Out Subterfuge.
Superintendent Chrstensen's COM
nent on the letter proposition was i'll
advised. His assertion that q matter of
QpllCacH
letter offering me the years leave OF
absence WAS absurd. The only delicate
directed to me and which he readily
found and read TO the school board
MY little note in reply TO his letter
he might have quoted from memory ON
receiving his offer to accept the leave of
absence I wrote him In This wise;
Your very recent letter at hand. II
is needless to say it came as sur
prise 10 me. After considering it I beg
leave to say that In my mind the mat
ter YOU suggest Is not only an injustice
10 me but 10 the schools Of the city and
! I think It should receive your reconsld-
Grafton,
Was that a delicate matter to present
delicate than his asking me to take the
leave of absence that II must needs be
iind it?
Il tirnly believe The handiworls of the
influence that finally succeeded in dis
Densing with my services has only be-
gun. Ny part is only a small part of a
prcconcrived plan. and ! intend 70. re-
the coast 10 watch the outcome.
Some Of the members of the hoard
voting TO oust me have asked me as to
my future plans, intimating that they
the coast. like Salt Lake and have
enjoyed my work here immensely, as
well as my pleasant associations with
the teachers. To me the last ten years
| have been pleasant enough. 7 am not
! unmindful OF the kind words I have
| heard since my dismissal
Going to N. E. A Conclaye.
AFTER attending the meeting of the
| National Educational association at San
! Francisco I shall visit friends on the
coast. After that | shall return TO Salt
Lake. | assure you | have purchased a
round "trip ticket. ] am member of
chairman Of the Salt Lake committee OF
the patrons department OF the assocla-
ton
plans of the hoard, through Superintend
cnt whose Instructions are
plain, I believe-are 10 make Mr.. Child
supervisor of the grades in addition to
with the promotion to assistant superin-
who win be appointed to MI my place $
Club women OF Salt Lake arc indig-
tanning The recommendation OF the
superintendent and freely express their
feelings IN the matter. In tine ten years
Miss Pollock has been identified with
| been of unuuestioned superiority and has
made the urinary grade work ef tho
schools of Salt Lake the admiration of
eastern cities. FJe- methods have been
adopted elsewhere after a visit to the
schools here,