The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-06
SLAWSON FAVORS SCHOOL YEAR OF
 TWELVE MONTHS
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 period morning and afternoon. This means that the chiIdren's education is shortened by half of them attend ing school in the morning and the other half in the afternoon and they all get five period session where the regular schedule calls for six periods.
 With both high schools on half time schedules and the teachers do- ing double work MT. Slawson Is greatly worried about next year. He points out that he may be able to squeeze by for another year but not more than that. He hopes in that time to have the new high school built and with the board of appor- tionment giving the educational board $750,000 to work with toward new buildings MT. Slawson believes that it can be done by 1921.
 To say the least the school off cials are surprised at the statement made by Chairman William E. See1ey of the apportionment board that he was to cut the appropria- ton for new buildings in view of the fact that Mayor Wilson when he ap- peared before the school board told them to go ahead with building plans and send the amount which they needed to care for the situation for the next two years Unless the mayor takes an active interest in the school appropriation intimations are floating around that charges Of double dealing" may be made pub lie.
 In regard to the teachers of Bridge port schools MT. Slawson says that there are seven vacancies which now i exist and which he is having a hard l time to fill . He says that with the advent of new classes in February he will need more teachers, especially in l the high school. It is claimed that MT. Slawson has secured the country for high school teachers and he can- not secure them at any price. To meet this situation he has taken three college graduates now teaching in the grammar grades and transferred them to the high school This leaves three l more vacancies to be filled.
 ! MT. SlawSon said this morning that 1 Bridgeport has fallen behind in her schedule of pay for the teachers until < today none can be secured from the larger cities. Even if the full increase recommended in the school boards irequisition was granted he points out that this city will be far from paying the highest rate in New England and Bridgeport has always had the repu- tation of being in the front rank of this line.
 Bridgeport's superintendent put 1 him on record this morning as favoring a schedule of pay the F months in the year, instead of a 40 week basis, and he also said that ha was in favor of school twelve months
 in the year. With this schedule he
 said that competent athletic in-
 structors would be engaged and the
 children given an adequate oppor-
 tunity to have recreation and games
 and he believes that under this sys-
 tenn the boys and girls would learr
 a great deal more as they would talks
 8 healthy interest in their work. In Q, table of figures paid teachers
 in the middle west states as com
 pared with skilled laborers MT
 Slawson points out that the teach
 CTS are badly underpaid. He shows
 that a machinist in the middle west
 receives an average of $1,900 q year, the same as bricklayers an6 fathers while high school teachers
 get but about s1,000 a year, inter
 mediate teachers get $500 and eIe-
 mentary teachers an average of s700