The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-06-16

the salary schedule.
Frankfort, Ky. June 9, 1920 Supt
III. r. Meador, Hardinsburg, KY
Dear Supt Meador: Your teachers
salary schedule has been approved in
exactly the form in which you sub
mitted it. Accept my congratulations
on the judicious expenditure of salary
funds provided for in this schedule
Yours truly, Geo. Colvin, Supt
The salary schedule adopted and
approved is as follows:
| Teachers Salary Schedule.
Breckenridge Co., Kentucky, 1s20-2l.
| Certificate Held Mo. Salary
Second class $500
| First class $500
State certificate, informed
late normal, advanced nor
NAL, elementary or inter-
mediate university, elemen-
tary high school 5000
State diploma, advanced univer-
sity, state intermediate and
advanced high school $500
Supplementary Salary.
For experience per Mo
OF two years, add $500
| OF years or more, add 600
| For Supervision per Mo.
| OF schools of two or more
teachers, add S1.00
| For ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS salary due
at close of term
For term average of so per cent of
census, add $1.OO per month.
| For 30 or more in average attendance
for term, $500 per month.
With the increase in salary must
come better preparation of teachers,
more devotion to the cause, and. clos
er application to the tasks which con-
front the teacher both in the school
room and in the community outside
| the school room.
The teacher who expects to get
the largest salary possible and do the
smallest possible amount of work will
be eliminated from the profession as
soon as his place can be filled.
| We must have more attention direc-
ted to the fundamentals of education
readin', ritin'. and 'rithmetic. Espec-
| tally are we in need of teachers who
can give more attention to reading
and writing.
With the vast amount of literature
available if the child is only taught
| how to read and what to read he
ter it-you can do it in two weeks
zen. The teacher who assigns a read
| ing lesson, calls the child up and has
him read paragraph, assigns another
lesson, and excuses the child from the
recitation is almost guilty of obtain
ing money under false pretense Let
Ie
that we will teach one subject well
this fall. Buy for your self copy of
Turner's Teaching to Read and mas
can make of himself good citi
then resolve that you will teach at
least one child to read this fall
And writing? Perhaps no more
neglected than oral reading, but so
much more noticeable. One may new
err be called upon to read orally, but
if he transacts any business whatever
he must write. But teach the boy 20
read and he will never be satisfied
until he writes we'll. Teachers, what
ever deficiencies are found IN those
who have passed through the public
schools are traceable to your teach
ing.
In commenting upon the papers
submitted by applicants for certih-
cate in the recent examination-not
from this county alone but from the
entire state of Kentucky-the State
Superintendent says that the first
thing to impress itself upon him is
the "lamentable lack of scholarship.
| cannot find it in my heart" he con-
tinues, ito criticise these applicants
for this. The sort of schools to which
they had access did not supply the
scholarship" The incompetency OF
the schools back in the days of our
tutelage made cripples of us all 1t
is no fault of ours if the schools then
were not what they should be, but it
is very grievous fault if we pass
this incompetency on to the next
generation by setting ourselves up as
teachers without first binding up the
wounds which the schools of our day
made upon our mental selves. 1t can
be done. One who himself has ceased
to grow cannot inspire growth.
The report from the teachers ex-
animation in May has not yet been
received. 1t is expected daily, but if
you have not received the report bv
the time for the next examination /
would advise that you take the next
one anyway, unless of course you
have complete confidence in the sue
cess Ct your former manuscript.
The next examination for both
white and coIored annlicantS will he
Friday and Saturday, June IS and 10.
Supt Colvin writes me that he shall
see to it that the examinations are
not too difficult and not too technical
Some of the questions asked in the
last examination will not be repeated
in substance or in kind"