The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-09-14
CAPE TEACHERS Are.
not EMPLOYED here.
Tribune Reader Complains That
Home Educators Are not
Preferred to Outsiders.
To the Editor of The Tribune:

To the Editor of The Tribune:
There is large number of Cape Cir
ardeau people who are leaving town
to accept positions to teach elsewhere.
More than so per cent Of teachers in
Cape Girardeau public schools are out
of-town people. What's the trouble L?
Why this discriminating against home
people?
Among the Cape Girardeau people
who have left town recently are the
following: Nellie Woody, Irma Koch
titzky, Edna Kochtitzky, Edna Sebas-
tian! Clara Hoffman, Conway Ivy, Lily
Brucher, Mary Brucher, George Bruch-
er, Julien Dearmont, Lillian Bergman,
Louise Bergman, Emma Ranney, Leo
Schultz, Louis Schultz, Nellie Collins,
Loretta Carroll, Grace Pickens, Mayme
Pickins, Georgia Sharp, Vesta Bow
man, Pearl Williams, Ramona Duck
worth, lone Hirsch, Florence Machen.
Emma Kruger, Irma Huters, Geral-
dine Talent, Annie Walker, Blanche
Cline, Hugo Wilder, Esther Knehans,
Florence Ref, VIM. P. Whitledge.
Most Of these are teachers of fine
training and long experience and
would be great credit to our own
school system.
There are several reasons why they
are not engaged in teaching here:
1. Some have better positions from
standpoint of schOo standards and
salary in other places.
2. Others have refused to be con-
nected with our own school system
for various causes.
2. But very many have seen their
own applications scOrned and positions
given inexperienced people from other
towns.
Note. This preference for the out
of-town teacher is erect affront t.,
the ability and training of the sons
and daughters OF some Of The Capr' 5
best citizens.
How can the School Board expect
the citizens of Cape Girardeau to loyal
ly support the schools, to work for
every new tax levy, eac., when their
children are forced to go elsewhere to
earn their livelihood?
The taxpayer-ability and training
be given the preference,
a thing that has evidently been disre-
garded in Cape Girardeau where we
consider those who have recently left |
for teaching positions in other towns,
and the fact that fifty per cent of our
teachers are non-residents.
How can the School Board, composed
Of Cape Girardeau business men, ex-
pect the people of Cape Girardeau to
support their business when they. be-
ing given the opportunity, refuse their
support to the citizens and their chilA
iren?
Note. The blame for this discrim-
nation against the home teacher
should be rightly placed, either upon
the School Board or upon the super
ntendent who dictates to them.
If the superintendent be allowed to
hire and fire" at will and even have
sign their contracts before
he board has had an opportunity to
pass upon their recommendations Ga
hing known to have occurred), and {
ilctate generally about school matters,
hen the School Board seems an I'M
necessary piece of machinery. s
If such situation is to continue to
xist in the future as has in the past
ew years then the body of men who
re elected to represent the people in {
chool matters had better be abolished.
ape Girardeau, Mo. Citizen. '
Sept. IL, 1916. IL