Evening journal., 1912-11-15
FRIDAY NOV. Is. 1912.
DROP THE POLICY OR THE COMmTTEE.

DROP THE POLICY OR THE COMMITTEE.
sN"r it time for the Of the Board Of Edu-
cation to make Il clear to the taxpayers voters
parents in this city that they in sympathy
with the policy of the High school Committee with
spect to the treatment accorded the teachers
the students that school? Certain of the rules in
force there constitute to the teaching staff
and the students. They should be abrogated with
out further delay.
Would the High school Committee have the public
believe that the teachers that are persons
such loose tendencies that they be permitted
remain in the cassrooms other parts OF the building
minute beyond arbitrary time fixed by the committee
their departure? If it would inspire public with
that belief, it Will find itself woefully mistaken. The
public recognizes that have here High School
teaching stan that is composed of and who
may be trusted anywhere and under any and all
dtons. We challenge the members of the High
School Committee to point out instance in which
that is not so.
Would the High School Committee have the public
believe that the boys and girls who school
so depraved their tendencies that moral pollu-
ton would follow the common use by them of the
Delaware exit OF that High school
hhildng2 II the committee holds the boys andt girls
Of High School going 10 such light. esteem, It
has right TO have anything whatever to do with
the administration that educational institution We
take it that the parents of the High school students
the other persons who know them we'll feel that
there is city in the United States that has better
more moral set of boys and girls than has Whining
ton II is and undeseryed insult to the boys
and girls who attend the High School for the High
School Committee to intimate even remotely that the
students cannot that front door of the building
without danger OF moral contamination. IL also may
be said that such intimation is an insult to the
fathers and mothers of those children
Nor is that all What justification is there for max
ing the teachers in the High School the subordinates
subject to the espionage of the ianitor of the
hat afiouf fc
arbitrary rules for the Of men and women
teachers who doubtless moral and respectable
in their conduct and purposes are the members of
the High School Committee? What right have the
members of the High School Committee to proceed
npon the insulting assumption that because a man
teacher in the High School finds il ex-
pedient to remain short time after O'Clock in the
afternoon to transact business OF any connected
with his or her work to give educational aid
to backward pupil, that he she is by inn
proper motives?
Il is time for the High school Committee TO aban-
don its present attitude toward the teachers and the
students It is time for it to recognize the fact that
teacher who is ft to teach the
boys and girls there in school hours fit to be trusted
after school hours teacher who is not fiji to be
trusted in the school building in the afternoon after
school hours is tit TO be with the pupils dur
ing school hours It is time the High school Commit
tee to recognize that the teachers in that school should
be responsible TO the principal OF the and that
responsible
superintendent Of Schools and the Board of Fduca-
tion, and that them should be subject TO the
espionage reprmand interference or report OF the ian
itor OF anyone else holding menia position in the
institution Let the ianitor devote his energies "a
directing the work Of those who to the furnaces
and clean up the litter the school That is his Iegi
innate function. It is part Of his proper duty 10
accost the teachers, women, and give orders
to them relative 20 when or how they shall leave
the building That should be left the principal who
not only should be superior to them but also far s-
perior in authority to the ianitor.
The situation that has been created in our High
School has become matter Of public comment and
condemnation II is time for the members Of the
High School Committee to recognize that fact and
change their policy resign and make room foi
others who may do without being placed in the
position Of crawling beneath public criticism Il viii
not be difficult TO find who will frown upon tn,
sinister suggestions contained certain of the rules
and who recognize the improperly making IN,
teachers subject TO the direction. espionage repri
mand or report of the whose duty it should b
merely to supervise the shoveline OF coal and th,
cleaning up Of the building and grounds