Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-30
SCHOOL BOARD HAS
WASHING PROBLEM
Question of Appropriation for
Teachers Supervising Clean
ing of Dishes Before Them.


The question of an appropriation
for the teachers engaged in supervis-
Ing the washing of dishes in the
ungraded schools occupied the atten-
fion of the committee on instruction
and educational supplies of the Board
of Education last night.
The committee some time ago APP
propriated 500 per annum to the
teachers for the supervision of the
work. and at the last meeting the
teacher of School No. . asked per-
mission to appoint a woman at q
cents an hour. which request was
granted When the teacher in School
No. / made a like request last night
the board decided to further inyesti-
gate the matter. although the APP
pointment previously made was al
lowed to stand.
An appropriation of 5000 was made
for the renting of fifty cases of speci-
mems of birds, insects. woods and cor
ais from the American Museum OF
Natural History.
al the request OF city Superinten-
dent of Schools Dr. Poland plan to
use. the cassrooms of the Madison
Nand Cleveland schools by two differ
ent sets of pupils was approved. AS
sistant superintendent Kennedy
worked the plan out and by it the
long stretch of four hours stra Ont
for the one-session pupils will be
done away with. The first set OF
pupils will report at school at $50
o'clock and the second set at IL
o'clock. Two and one-half hours will
be put in by each class in the morn
ing and two hours in the afternoon
Commissioner Belfatto made an en-
.phatic statement to the effect thai
not enough time was spent in Inn
pressing on the pupils in the various
schools the necessity of leaving the
classrooms and school buildings In
an orderly manner. This was brought
about by the request of a parent for
return of the money paid doctor
10 attend an injury received by his
daughter in one of the classrooms.
Mr.. Belfatto stated he knew OF
many cases where children were in
iured through disorderly actions OF
ether pupils and he thought the blame
was indirectly traceable to the teach
ers for not intoxicating a spirit of or
derliness in the pupils.
Chairman Edgar X. Brown took eX-
ception to Mr.. Bolfatto's statement
and said in his opinion u teacher
could not DO responsible for the ac-
tons of the pupils when leaving school
and also stated that there was a GER
tain time each day devoted by every
teacher in instructing the pupils to
act orderly. The parent who request
sd the return of the doctors fees will
be informed by the secretary that the
hoard does not believe itself RESPONSE
BILE for the injuries anC attendant ex-
peuse.
Chairman Brown was given power
to decide whether or not the COM
mittee would act favorably on a re-
quest from the Silver Lake Improve
ment Association that special
course of lectures be conducted in the
Abingdon Avenue School. The idea
of the association is that a great deal
of good could be accomplished by
having three lectures during the term
delivered in the Italian tongue, treat
ing on hygiene, housing in the mod
ern tenement, and the preventive and
treatment of tuberculosis
Consideration of the establishment
of plumbing class In the Boys In
dustria School was laid over. Prin-
tipal James e. Dougan reported that
; committee from the Plumbers
Union had made the request and
guaranteed at least forty plumbers
apprentices to take the course.