El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-06
MORE SCHOOLS,
! BETTER PAID
,TEACIIERS.
important problem Of our child

rens education All the legislators both Delegates and
highly patrioc according to their public
statements when they soliciting the votes of the
people and we do not doubt for moment that they all
have given the matter the serious consideration it deser
yes and that they all have to the conclusion that
substantial increase must be made i'll the item OF
the budget that goes to public instruction.
the number of public schools and the salaries OF
the teachers be increased. friend who knows
telling the other night that the anors of of the
S. uan and for that matter in the whole island
paid larger salaries than the graded school teachers
you hear of anything like that? The result has
that very able teachers, who could not live
with the ptance they paid such left their jobs to
become school anitors in other Words they had to give
the most noble of intellectual pursuits and in THE
SAME DEPARTMENT secured menial occupation, for
which they are paid much more money.
result of this remarkable policy of paying starv
ing wages, many vacancies open in our public
Schools particularly in the rural ones, and of
there not very bright hopes of these vacancies being
filled by competent teachers, at salaries ranging from
to sixty dollars per month These teachers possess
mental equipment necessary for earning something
like twice much elsewhere Anybody will grant that,
after person goes through years of careful train
ing all public school teachers must co. and that person
highly efficient worker all school teachers
must be of necessity, to offer him or her monthly
pensation of from forty to sixty dollars with the present
cost of living Porto Rico, is simply outrage not to
say something worse. No, the salaries of the public
school teachers OF Porto Rico are rdiculousy low, and
: 3 therefore SO many vacancies.
The number of schools, too, must be substantially in
Creased. Remember that there yet in Porto Rico
ead and that you know is very dangerous thing to
any country and very shameful thing to be to-
lerated in democratic republic The children of to-day
the citizens of tomorrow What the increase in the
of schools should be- well in the pay of the
teachers will be known after have figures from
the Department Of Education
Furthermore there is something very important to be
done in the matter of educational Improvement At least
Trade Schools should be established without delay,
throughout the island AS far we know there only
school like that in Mayaguez, and another in
of organization here in San juan just think of it; in
eountry of nearly and one half million people, only
two schools of mechanical trades Because of this de-
eency the exodus of workmen to the United
ended in failure many thousands of unskilled
iaborers met with disaster, with hunger with humia
~ ton with death Had they being good carpenters,
0s plumbers competent mechanics of any kind Of
se they could have easily found profitable employment
e the United States but without trade and ignorant
the language could not reasonably expect any different
outcome.
s"p Now thing like that should not happen any
If we have to export human material let it go out
prepared ready to fight and win in the struggle for exis
and the best way to do it is by giving people
hothe opportunity to learn thorough useful
occupation in trade school, Not less than twenty such
schools should be established in Porto Rico without
se'delay
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