The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-05-01

This years supply of teachers will
be very short according to full returns
from all the institutions in Wisconsin
that send out graduates as teachers.
Before the war 1920 new teachers
were needed for the rural schools each
year. The number needed next year
for rural schools cannot now be def
nitely computed, but it is certain to be
much larger than 2,200. To meet this
demand, the normal schools will send
out 230 from their rural courses; the
teacher training courses in high
school will graduate 1886; the county
training schools will send out 32S who
had previously had high school edu-
cation and 1868 who will have only
from two to three years of work be-
yond the grades, in all, This will to-
tai only about 1850, or about 5S per
cent OF the number needed before the
war. The supply from these sources
this year will probably not be over 90
per cent of the number needed.
For elementary school work in state
graded schools and in grades below
high school in city elementary grades
1000 new teachers are needed each
year. The normal schools will this
year turn out only 7l3 elementary
school teachers and 16 kindergarten
teachers or only about 730 together.
This is only about 40 per cent of the
number needed.
The high schools Of the state re-
quired before the war $40 new teach
ers each year, exclusive of teachers
for special subjects such as domestic
science, manual training, etc. This
year the university will turn out only
about 1856 regular high school teach
ers, the colleges about 140, and the
normal schools about 1870 or 425 in all.
ers needed this year will be much
greater than in pre-war years, and the
shortage in high school teachers for
special subjects is much more than
formerly. There are in sight not over
rs per cent of the high school teachers
needed.
What can school boards do? Ii
salaries are not raised substantially,
the city schools with higher salaries
and better living conditions will draw
their new teachers from the schools
less fayorably situated. The city will
take the best teachers from smaller
cities, the towns will rob the villages,
and the state graded schools will
draw on the one-teacher schools for
teachers. This is shown by the fact
that last September the high schools
on the University list reported LACY
teachers new to the high school they
we're in, out OF a total of 2,754
So per cent. And of this number of
new teachers, lilo or practically IS
per cent had neeyr taught in any of
these high schools before. In other
words the superintendents in cities
with accredited high schools had to
start with every other high school
teacher new TO his high school, and
in most cases new to high school
work.
When the supply Of any article is
much less than the demand and sub
stitute is not acceptable, the price
goes up. There Is no substitute for a
good teacher that any good COM
munity or any good citizen can toler-
ate. The supply of trained teachers
this year will in every line be far
short of the need The salaries in
wide-awake schools are already going
up and have gone up Wisconsin boys
and girls must have good teaching.
Only higher salaries for teachers will
get IL