The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-23
Board of Education Re-
fuses to Raise Salary of
One Teacher.
WILL Be CHANGE NEXT YEAR
Member Hutchinson Pro
mises Maximum and
Minimum Scale.
Coal Instead of Gas VIII he Burned
In New Silver street Anncx-Gas
Unsatisfactory Several Rooms
Have Been Too Cold For school.


the board of education transacted
business at a regular meeting held in
! the high school building Monday night
! Affairs pertaining to the advance
mcnt OF the Marion school system
were discussed in an open and frank
manner which eliminated sides and
| factions.
The gas man was handled roughly
at the meeting. The consensus Of
opinion of the board members SEEM
TO be that gas, while more economi-
cal, did not heat the buildings sat
lsfactorily.
While discussing the fuel that
should be burned in the furnaces at
the annex OF the Silver street build
ing Member H. Il. Hin said I'm in
favor OF burning coal" Following this
assertion. Member Il. ]. Pennel NOV
ed that coal be burned in the new
annex. Il second the motion but I'm
going to vote against it," Member
| O. G.. Briggs declared and he did but
his was the only dissenting vote. Coal
viii be burned in the new annex.
The board learned last night that
parents in the South side of the city
had been compelled TO take their
children from the Lincoln school
building because of inadequate heat
ing. Teachers In the building de-
clare that 1t was impossible to heat
the rooms above Gfty-two degrees In
cold weather and that the health Of
the children Is endangered. Steps
have been taken to repair the fur
naces in the building.
During the extreme cold weather
Dr II. A. Hartman reported that II
became encessaN to dismiss one
room at the State street building ono
day and another room one-half day;
! two rooms were dismissed one day
at the lincoln building and one room
I one day at the Forest Lawn building
3 The graduating class in the high
1 school this year will number forty
six according to q statement made 10y
I DR.. Hartman> last night. The boarC
@ decided to furnish each graduate
r with twelve graduating invitations al
e a cost OF five and one-half cents
e each.
o There Is no doubt in the mind o
= Member Pennel as TO whether archi
= tects are able to plan and builders
p are able to build strictly fre-proo
d buildings. The modren structure o
d today, Pennel termed semI-hre-proo
and called the boards attention t.
n the fire that destroyed the Equitabl,
e building in New York City.
9, with this and the fact that tn
,e Garfield and Mckinley buildings ar
outside the fire limit Of the city, Pen
mel thought that the new school bull
ings should be insured for two-third
their actual value as soon as the
officially became the property of tn
n board and made n motion to tina
n effect. The motion carried.
When President c.. L. Sauer calle
for the report of the janitor com
mlttee, Member Hutchinson, chair
- man Of the committee, stated tina
o the number OF applicants of the ne'
~ school buildings had increased froI
=, 90 to S5. when I got up this morn
= ing there was a man sitting on m
20 door steps waiting TO hle his appl
20 cation" the chairman said. But tw
y jantors will be employed.
. AS Is usually the case, the discus
~ sion turned toward the matter of II
~ creasing the the salaries of certai
p. teachers before the meeting was at
,d journed. Miss Isabelle Freeland,
q teacher in the schools asked th
n. board for raise in salary as she ha
a an offer TO teach I'm East Clevelan,
ir Ohio, at salary Of S75 per mont
in Member Hill moved that her pay
IN increased from $55 per month
,lx SOS, but the motion was voted dow
o. III we are going into this questio
ce tonight we should take mp the prol
10 osition Of raising the salaries Of a
@. the teachers who merit a raise an
lie there are some twenty or twenty-fiN
he Of them. But we don't know whei
e" we are financially. l would sugge
r. that the mattre he referred 10 Il
ly finance committee" Member Penn
~. stated.
ny ~ don't believe in singing out an
ry one teacher and l viii not vote fC
a raise for any one teacher until a
who are deserving can be raised" WI
Member o. G. Briggs opinion Men
ber Hutchinson passed" for the san
reason.
e "Perhaps II is because / used
" be n teacher in the schools once m,
self that the teachers seem so fr'
to come to me but / have receive
more complaints from the question
salaries than from any other depar
ment In the schools since the Il
es- day of November" Member Hutchil
ad son stated. She continued to 81
nd that she Informed the complainr
ur teachers that next year a maXimu
d. and minimum scale of salarle
1ta based on he experience and lengi
rs of time in the service of the scho
d. board, for the different grades won
ow be adopted and a teacher would kno
Is what salary he or she would recel'
ret before accepting a position, 9th
gh member acqulesced in this purpos
ou and the subject was iropped.
on The clerk was authorized to NJ
lg- the gas. telephone and electric llg
'or bills before the tenth OF each mon
en- without being authorized by the I'll
eD ance committee. This was done
u save the 10 per cent discount.
pc The clerk was also authorized
TT pay the teachers by pay roll at q
lie end of each and every four wee
and tQ,.pay the ianltors BY pay r.
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