Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-27
HOPE ALL CHILDREN
RETURN TO SCHOOL
. Supt. Scott Considers Exodus Due
to Good Paying Jobs Would
be Unfortunate.

Superintendent Clifford J. Scott, in
charge Of the local schools, addressing the
Board of Education by letter last night,
took OCCASION TO express the hope there
would be no general exodus of children
from the schools the coming term because
of the fact that large numbers of them
are working and getting we'll paid for
it. Mr.. Scott in his letter also took up
the matter Of shortage of teachers. He
said:
Several hundred employment certifi-
Gates have been issued during the past
three months and it is believed that the
majority of our pupils of the upper grades
and Hugh School are very profitably em-
ploycd. How many of these boys and
girls will be tempted To continue working
for the present high wages and not return
TO school is very difficult to determine.
Nearly all of them may return, but on tho
other hand, n sufficient number may con-
tinue at work to make necessary some
changes IN our organization as we have
planned it, 1t is TO he hoped. however.
that our fears are mfounded and that the
good Judgment of the parents of the boys
and girls will prevail and that pupils shall
be kept in school to their good and for the
welfare of the community. 4 general
exodus Of pupils from the school nj this
as never before would be a ca lamity to the
community In spite of our
earnest and continuous efforts throughout
the past three months to secure enough
teachers To replace those who are leaving
10 accept much hcttcr-paylng positions IN
other lines of work, II now appears that
VIC shall not have n sufficient number of
teachers to fill all our positions when the
school term opens September 16 A large
majority Of our teachers who have held
positions long enough to get the higher
salaries in accordance with our salary
schedule, have remained. The younger
teachers. whose salaries range from 5000
10 $3.50 have left in large numbers to
accept positions which pay 81 900 to
81 200 We would have had no difficulty
IN filling all our positions acceptahly if our
minimum salary had been $3.50 instead of
S6O0 If n teacher is worth 81 200 to n
corporation to file papers. II seems to me
that she is worth that much to the city
to educate ITS boys and girls Other cities
that have offered salaries a little larger
than ours have found no difficulty in
securing teachers. Many of the new
teachers we have appointed at 5000 have
resigned to go 10 other school districts
paying $50
FILLING VACANCIES
There are now about % vacancies. and
the outlook to fill them by September Is
isn't encouraging The following were
elected last night
Wilmington High School-Iouise Hill
yard. Ruth Barthold. Maron Stnckler
and Harold L. Gibbs
Elementary Schools Warner,
Mary b Sweeney, Edith Fleetwood, Anna
Tree, Myra Everett, Mann Myers, Mary
Steele. Sara Tnce, Bessie Small, Vilena
Brownhill. Mary Johnson, Margaret
Ruess, Lena Richardson and Amy Lee,
and the temporary appointment of Edna
B. Thompson.
Announcement WAS made of the ap- |
pointment of Elizabeth Schulz as prin-
cipal of No. Is School and Anna V De |
v1nev principal Of No. 10 School. Dorothy /
Millard WAS transferred from No 10 10 |
No. 4 School.
The resignation Of E. ". Keenan, OF the |
High School Commercial Department WAS
received and accepted.
The board decided TO employ Phila-
delphia school architect named Ritter 70 :