The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-11
TEACHERS GET
$44 Per MONTH


Lansins. July ll-Teachers in Mich
igan are paid but living wage. ac-
cording To figures compiled bNN l.. l.
Wright, superintendent of public i'm
struction.
During the past year 1884 women
and men made living by teaching
The aggregate salaries paid the Is
so teachers amounted 10 Ssg52, 32GG
OF an average salary of S629.O3 for
each teacher for one years work.
| OF this amount $l4l5.S26 was paid
out Ia men teachers in graded schools
and S549,S22 To men teachers in un-
! graded schools The women teachers
! We're paid considerable more Than the
men teachers, S5,325,slO being paid to
women teachers in the graded schools
and S2,4GO,66O in the ungraded schools.
\ total of 1927 teachers were EN-
| ploNed during IA" year in the graded
and r,jsj in the ungraded schools. OF
this number 1895 men were employ ed
| IN the graded schools as compared To
! 100 women while 1910 men were
! employed in the ungraded schools as
/ compared To 7.407 women. OF the
! 1884 teachers employed during 1872
/ there is shown a slight increase over
the number employed during 1911,
which was lS,2O2 The list Includes
| the superintendents of the various
high schools in the state and ac-
COrdins to the figures of Mr. Wright
their salaries aided materially ia
boosting the average Of the rest of
the teachers, The average salaries
paid the women teachers IL far below
the grand average, due that "A major
ity OF the men teachers held positions
Of superintendent and are better paid.
Average Wage S44 a Month.
According To the figures compiled
by Supt. Wright the average wage for
each teacher IN Michigan for one
month is about S4i. This is working
on l2month year basis The
length OF most school terms is nine or
ten months, but most of the teachers
are forced 10 spend much of the other
two months in preparing for the COM
ing scnool year, and are seldom able
mer months.
The salaries paid in district schools
are below those paid in city schools.
but the difference between the salaries
paid 10 teachers IN the lower grades
of the city and district schools is
slight. Teachers in the city schools
are at "A greater expense than those
Il
engagements, dress and board and
lodging being less in the country.
The majority of the teachers in the
city schools are college graduates,
while few OF the district school
teachers have. been farther than
through tho high schools.
There were SECS school houses in
the state last year. an increase of ~
over 1871.
The total value of school property
was S4O,223,747 and the net receipts
amounted To $l0,ls9.3S3, a decrease OF
$685. ,4g2 from 1871. The receipts in
clude moneys derived from the mill
tax, primary school money. non-resi-
dent tuition and school taxes.
There was an increase of six town
ships and cities reporting To the de
partment last year over the year pre-
Vious. two more graded schools and
one less ungraded school. There were
bl3 graded schools and G,749 ungraded
schools and 7,262 school districts in
the state one hundred and siXty-siX
township unit districts are compared
to l5l for 1911.
795,455 Pupils in Schools.
-Four hundred ana ninery-on thous-
and. two hundred and ninety-three
children were i'm graded schools and
304 lG2 in the ungraded schools, MAX
ing a grand total of 795,455 as com
pared 10 $3.50 tor 1871. The per
centage Of school attendance for 1872
was - as compared to "A for the pre-
vious year. The graded schools held
school 81 months during the year
while the ungraded schools held
school So months during the year.
There were 443 private and paroch-
ial schools i'm the state last year at
tended 10y 6S.39l school children. For
ty-three county normal training
schools graduating 497 pupils during
the year marked the record of this
class Of schools i'm the state. attended
by J3 pupils and two county agricul-
tural schools attended by "a pupils.
The net expenditures for the schools
Of the state for 1912 amounted To
$l6,730,370. AN increase over 1911 of
S1,437S1S. The public schools Of the
state mad cor libraries last year, or
- less than in 1911, which contained
1,1s1,Oil books, an increase of 81 900.
There also were lao free text book
districts in the state ana increase of
1875 over the previous year.
The report also says there were 3l4
pupils In the public schools with de-
fcctive vision last year
A MARINE TENDENCY.