Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-07-26
ANNE ARUNDEL NEEDS
FORTY MORE TEACHERS
High Salaries In Other Lines
Have Seriously Cut Enroll
rnents IN Profession
FEW RE-APPoINTMENTs

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According 10 a statement made YES
terday Is County Superintendent of
Public schools George Fox there are
forty teachers needed in Anne Arandel
pounty ii order that the schools m
open next year with 4 teaching farcs
sufficiently largo TO conduct tilenl all
This shortage 81 teacher II dsie t0
three or four reasons but the chief
one IS that there are Larger salaries to
he had elsewhere than in the teaching
profession Many Of the teachers have
found better positions in the south
and West Then, too, number have
Been married
The number of teachers needpd rs
about one third of The total number
employed III lie schools III Anne Aran-
EdcI county, so ii can be seen thai The
ilack Isl d great one which cannot easily
he fiiled 0f these vacancies Mr.. FIX
said that perhaps ten could be flied
fby appointments That Is. tan Of
the teachers who have handed in their
. esignations may be Milling to leach
Fif they are assigned to other schools
one III the greatest difiicuItias That
has been encountered is that of md
ing boarding places for the rnrii
school teachers The root of This trsii-
Bile Is In the fact that The housewife
cannot get sufficient help for her
house. Haying all Of the work to do
by herself. she is unwilling to take
y hoarder and add to her labors Many
of the schools have no place whlteyer
whore tile teachers can board
III the city the board proposition IS
Ia big one. but here II takes different
form, the main difficulty being the
high price that the teachers have 10
pay ii is true that the teachers sal
,rics are almost twice as high as they
we're three years ago. but in spite of
this they are not able to live on mach
less because or the enormous advances
II me ccst of LIVING
Actually the increase Iii pay has
been about eighty-fi five per cent in.
the three years just past. The aver
age pay of Il teacher three years ago
was $3.50 per year. Now it Is slightly
over 800
Anne Arundel is at the present time
,one oil the hest paying counties in The ]
state In the matter of teachers sal-
aries. out of the money collected for
the schools greater percentage N
This county goes I'd teachers salaries
tlian in any other Of Maryland
The rate of tax this year has been
perhaps the highest on record, a levy
Of sixty-nine cents having been de-
.elared. This is ali least fifteen cents
higher. however than il would have
a1een IL there had been nd troubles
arising from annexation Several
suits have been filed concerning IN
nexation IN each of which some Of the
funds have been held up. AS q resnlt
these shortages had 10 be cared for in
striking the levy
Other expenses in the maintenance
of schools besides the salaries Of
teachers have increased at almost an
unbelievable rate. The records show
that wood for the rural schools last
year cost $500 per cord, as compared
with $4saO per cora lot tHe pFsNsIitlA
year Changes and repairs in build-
ings. and the construction Of new
school houses also come in for their
share Of the increase One building
which was built ten years ago II an
expense Of S750 was recently moved a
distance of ten miles The cost q
moving ii was $1,000.
Mr. Fox said that II the county had
not stood lovally behind the business
of keeping the schools going and
hshown their willingness to do all that
they could to support the board in
tits work the task would have been
hopeless one and it would have been
necessary to close at least three
afourths of the schools
III Is now hoped that appointments
to ali Of the schools may be made be-
/ fore they open in the fall, so that none
lof them will be delayed in beginning
work A number Of applications are
now in and appointments will be made
las soon as practicable.