Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-09
STUDENT TEACHERS CAN NOT
BE EMPLOYED IN THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS, JUDGE soiEs SAYS
CEDAR FALLS PATRONS
WIN SWEEPING VICTORY
Board Prepares to Make Swept ns
Changes to Comply With Ruling
-caae Msy Be Appealed-contro-
versy Gets Into Politics at Seat Of
State Teachers Coiese.

| Waterloo, March e-SweepinS vistory
IS given patrons of the Cedar Falls
public schools who complained about
the student teacher activities in their
schools, in a decision flied by Judge H.
B. Boies. The decree insists these de-
mands be complied with:
First-That the student-teacher plan
as practiced by Iowa State Teachers
! College in cooperation with the board
OF education be discontinued.
Second-That public school property
be not used for student teacher activi-
ties.
Third-That the cxounty supersn-
tendon, be permanently enjoined from
/ issuing provisional certificates TO stud
| ent- teachers.
Affects All NornaIs.
While the decision applies to TIE
Cedar Falls situation specifically. its
effect has a bearing on al normal
schools and many state universities
thruout the country, all of which
have the student-teacier system in
operation.
The plan of securing permission of
public school boards 70 permit stu
dents at the Iowa State Teachers
College 70 acquire pedagogical train
ing in the public schools affects 9TH
er localities than Cedar Falls. Sew
eral student teachers have been en-
ployed in the Waterloo east schools
Political Angle.
At Cedar Falls, where nearly 700
patrons signed q petition to the
board OF education TO Giscont.nue the
practice school politics is seething
Superintendent Spcer wha has
championed the CO. operative system,
he said he is not candidate for re-
elected Members OF the board
whose terms expire have strong OPP
position.
The trial of the case attracted wide
interest Large numbers of Cedar
Falls people, most OF them parents
Of children in the schools who OBJ
jected 10 the student-teachers, were
in attendance daily. The Collectors
included such well known residents
Of Cedar Falls as Mayor J. e. New
man, LeClaire Martin, r. a. santee.
]. B. Clay, Myron Harris and others.
The objection was based on the claim
the children were obliged to be I'd Ger
inexperienced teachers, that there was
too frequent change in instructors and
that the whole system was illegal
Witnesses for the scnool board
testified that If the system were dis
continued the district would not have
sufficient funds with which to carry
| on the school work in its present
state of efficiency.
The school tax at Cedar Tails Is
now the highest OF any district in the
county.
Win Appeal Case.
Cedar Falls, March s-Roger Leavitt.
president Of the Cedar Falls school
board, announced that the board will
appeal from Judge II. 3. Boies ruling
in which the court decided that state
teachers college student cannot teach
in the public schools here and that
public funds could not be used 70 pay
critic teachers supervising such sue
ent teacher instruction.
The school board met al o'clock
Yesterday and made arrangements to
curtail the teaching force Of the public
schools. Domestic science Will be
eliminated, and kindergarten and other
teachers released TO meet the changed
conditions made necessary by the
court decision in the student teacher
Injunction case. The order Will be in
effect Monday