The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-14
SCHOOL BOARD
WILL SUPPLY 8
LESS TEACHERS
City Board Of Education Cuts Run
ming Expenses Of the School Sys.
tenn For This Year BY Re-
ducing Faculty.


Education Monday night, the follow
ing business was transacted:
Professor r. B. Eadler, B. S., M. S.
of the University of Kentucky was
elected to teach Science to succeed
Professor Noel. Considering the ad-
vanced cost of everything entering in
to the maintenance of the schools, the
Board of Education thought it best to
employ one less teacher in the High
School one in the white grades and
one in the colored grades. This was
done because of the fact that the at
tendance last year was considerably
below that of previous years and the
census taken in April would lead us
to infer that next years attendance
will even be smaller and especially
was the attendance in the Colored
schools less last year than any prev
ious year. The average attendance of
the Colored schools, last year, was
1874, or about "a for each teacher.
Dispensing with one teacher would
make the average attendance about 80
the ensuing year which is as it should
be.
In regard to the matter Superinten-
dent Caplinger says:
eve are having teachers and jani-
tors resigning from their work almost
daily, because of the abnormal prices
of everything-they are going where
they can get the most money.
"The only way open to the Board
to make it's money meet the demands
of the people for schools is to cut off
any expense that is not needed and
that will not in any way lessen the
efficiency of the schools. all of our
teachers that we are employing are
up to the high standard that we have
always maintained. A Science teach
/ er that we could get last year for
| $1,000 now is costing us on the basis
| $1450 or else do without the teacher.
I'VE are going to have better
schools, we think, the coming year
than we have ever had, but to do this
more money has to be spent along
some lines than previously. Just take
the item of coal for instance which
used to cost us about $900-the Treas
urer's report shows this time more
than $4,000 was spent for coal. Jani-
tors that we used to employ for $25
per month are now costing us $40 or
| more. No teacher will be thrown out
of position as we have had num-
Der of vacancies and we shall Just
close up the ranks so that it will not
work any hardship on either white or
| colored teachers that desire to con-
tinue with us.
"The colored children of the Sixth
Ward will have a little farther to go
to the Colored High School Building,
but will have much better facilities
after they get there. Instead of lit
tie one room building with no sani-
tary closets or other conveniences
they will be in nice modern building,
in which there will be all of the regu-
lar grades taught, as well as a super
visor for Music and another for Sew
ing and Cooking. BY closing up the
Colored Sixth Ward School the city
will save the rent on that building as
we'll as the teachers salary and yet
offer the children better facilities.
"As an instance of the difficulties
we are having just at present, last
night we thought we had all of our
High School teachers employed. I
had not been in the office five min
utes this morning when Western I'm
ion called us-Miss Kelley, our Span
ish and Latin teacher wired from Sc
attic, Washington, that she would
teach in that city the coming year. We
are to meet a graduate of the Naval
Academy tomorrow morning who is
proficient in Spanish and Mathematics
with the idea of employing him to
teach those subjects and give Mill
tary drill.
81 don't want anybody to consider
from the above that the schools are
taking any backward steps, in fact, if
we make the arrangements that we
now have in mind all of our schools
both white and colored will be on
better basis the coming year than
ever before. The people of Maysville
are interested in their schools as no
other people of my experience and for
that reason l am speaking very frank
ly for the Board and myself about this
matter.
1--WE are progressing nicely in the
installation of our Manual Training
machinery and will soon have things
ready for the inspection of the public
"In keeping with all other increases
made compulsory upon the. School
Board they raised the tuition to nom
resident High School students from
$40 to $50 per year. We hope to have
some other announcements pertain
ing to the schools in few days, part