The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-04-23

olina lends to the State Board of Edu-
cation it's professor secondary edu-
cation to serve as high school inspect
or. Prof J. A. Stoddard was elected
to this position upon the resignation
of Prof. w. H. Hand f"last%fall. Ten
normal classes in approved high
schools are authorized under the pres
ent law For the pas; three years
successful normal classes have been
conducted in the high schools at Wal
halla, Orangeburg and Conway. Each
instructor receives an annual salary
of $1,000. The State board is plann-
i'm the. fall. If this program is car
ried out the reserved balance will be
fully exhausted before Christmas.
appropriate and desirable. If this
same assistane returns for the ses-
sion 1920-2l, the maximum salary
may be ,$S5 per month on the same
condition. This policy of recognizing
tenure will service in the same class.
room will tend to strengthen and
stabilize all high school work.
Enlarged Teaching Force.
To encourage the employment of an
adequate teaching corps, the law pro
vides further for an allowance of $3.50
for third high school teacher and
for fourth high school teacher. A
two teacher high school may be
granted $675, three teacher high
school $G25 and four-t teacher high
school 1915. In the disbursement Of
high school aid $13,425 was distrib-
utcd on this basis. The number of
these three teacher or four-tcacher
high schools is steadily growing, and
the new act will greatly stimulate this
growth.
Bett-. Salaries for Women Teachers.
The revised high school act of 1919
provides better salaries for assistant
actically all of these are
women. Heretofore they received a
the new law they may receive as
much as SIS per month In every in
stance, the contract between the local
| board of trustees and the teacher was
| accepted as the basis of State high
school aid. The salary agreed upon
| by the trustees and the teacher con-
stitutes the basis for the payment of
| this aid. Among the 119 schools, these
salaries ranged from $40 per month
to $75 per month. Not a few boards
| of district trustees report salaries
ranging from $75 to $10O. In every
such case the over-plus is paid from
| district funds rather than from State
| funds.
The salary of the lowest paid high
school assistant is the basis for all
State aid. The high school law, there
fore, contcmplates a minimum high
school salary of $75 per month In
case the same high school assistant
returns for the session 1920 she
may be paid $50 if the board of dis
trict trustees considers such a salary
enrolment must instruct at least fif-
| teen pupils under each teacher before
any tuition can be granted The num-
ber of outside pupils thus qualified for
| the session 191S-19 was 1.159 and the
| total amount of tuition to which the
districts were entitled was $27 BOG.
BIT only S1l 900 or 1922 per cent of
the required sum, could be apportioned
and paid this year. The high school
| appropriation will have 70 be raised
from $1,000 to $130,OOO before these
districts and these pupils can be fully
protected. The scaling of this item,
| however, gave an equal and proDor-
tionate distribution for each Of these
outside pupils entitled to tuition
credit in each State-aided high school.