Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-03
TEACHER GUSHING
STIRS UP PROTEST


their behalf had cost him his job and
asking it to assure them that the dis
misSal was not due to his work on the
committee.
Later the teachers demanded that the
reason for Mr.. Carrolrs dismissal be
stated.
The committee reported that Miss Olga
Schellschmidt Of the English department,
who had presented the resolution de-
handing that a reason for Mr.. CARROTS
dismissal be stated, had been given
only a half years contract.
1t points out that no adequate reason
is given for this.
1t also points out that Miss Rannie
Baker Of the English department, the
one woman on the salary committee, and
Miss Viva Dutton of the science depart
ment, who frequently attended committee
meetings, also were given half year or
temporary contracts.
SHORT CONTRACTS
ALL AT TECHNICAL.
Your committee calls your atten-
ton" the report continues, that there
are fifteen OF these temporary contracts
for Technical High school-none for
either Of the other schools.
but fifteen is approximately 10 per
cent of the teaching force at Tech.
''If 10 per cent of your teaching force
is employed on tentative basis and
the teachers are uncertain whether they
win 90 or stay in the middle of the year,
their teaching can not possibly be at It's
best.
..That 10 per cent of the teachers
anxious and unsatisfed is sufficient, In
the opinion of the committee, to inJure
the moral OF the entire teaching corps
- fr~or an
members of the salary committee, and
about a dozen other representative teach
ers. largely from the classical depart
ments.
Some Of them were among the oldest
and best known in the school; some
comparatively new both TO the school
and to the city.
IAN of them feel that Mr.. Carroll's
dismissal has not been satisfactorily ex-
planned.
An of them are at loss to explain
some Of these halfye contracts on any
business-fike basis.
The committee has found widespread
dissatisfaction with the arbitrary way in
which the salary committee has been
handled. The committee Of FIVE was not
allowed to call meetings freely.
Zone notice OF a city-wide mass meet
ing at Shortrtdge on tue SUBJECT was
not posted promptly.
The teachers were very definite In
charging that attempts were made TO in
timidate them.
so far as your committee can find ouI
there has been no denial that the indi-
yidual members of the Tech committee
were warned not to be to actiye-a warn
ing that was practically a threat.
These attempts have been successful
in intimidating some teachers.
PROTEST AGAINST
SCHOOL AUTOCRACY.'
Some of the most conservative teach
ers protested against what they called
the 'autocracy' of the management OF the
school.
Your committee finds that question Of
the system of salaries at It. II. s. should
be gone into.
i here are some startling discrepan-
cies in the amount OF salary given for
eaual amounts Of work
There are instances Of equal pay to
teachers of widely differing training and
experience.
There are Il number Of teachers with
no college training. dependent on the
teachers ability, not to teach, but to
drive a bargain.
I'm this connection it is interesting to
note the question which Mr.. Carroll asked
and which is popularity supposed to be
the main cause of his dismissal.
"Mr. Carol wanted to know what, after