The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-11
CITY TEACHERS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Supt. Jones Gives Out FacuI-
ties for Majority Of Gram
mar Schools.
INSTITUTE DIScoNTINuEs


The teaching assignments for a mum
Der Of the city schools were given GU
Saturday morning by supt. r. L. Jones
This list includes Oak Grove. Secon,
district; Hemlock school, Third dis
trict; Ridgedale and Orange Grove. TIL
entire list represents comparativel.
few changes over the school facultie
Of last year.
| All the public schools Of the cit,
will open at $3.50 Monday morning, an,
1t Is predicted that all school will b.
filled to overlooking. Already Com
missioner Frazier and Superintendent
Jones are, making plans to meet crowd
ed conditions by renting additional
rooms near some of the schools.
The institute held by the city teach
crs closed Friday. It was pronounced
by the teachers and all attending I,
be a huge success. The instruction.
| given the various teachers were prac.
tical and helpful.
| A complete list Of the assignment.
Of the principals for all the schools wa.
given In an issue Of The News during
the past week.
The assignments of teachers as glver
| out by Mr.. Jones this morning are:
| Third District School,. NJ. Bounds
principal; B first. Geraldine Sanders
B first. Madge Sweet; A first, Iva
Jones: B second. Sylvia Surges; A
second, Annie >McLester; b third
Gladys Mckenzie; b third. Martha
Linnie Parker; A third, Jean Gillespie
Robert Orr, opportunity room; b
fourth, Dorothy Guest: b fourth, Sara
Long; A fourth, Vallie Boyd: B fifth,
Belle Brown; sixth, Bertha Har-
wood; A sixth, Evelena Ewing: b
seventh. Ruby Robinson; b eighth,
ID atN A al n
Hemlock School-Miss Emily Brown,
principal; first grade. Anna Beck; Sec
ond grade. Mary Crouch; A third
grade, Nina Williamson; B third grade,
Genevieve Catron; fourth grade, Irene
Bennett; fifth grade, Lillian Clingan;
sixth grade Maggie Lynne Peoples.
Oak Grove School,. E; Walker,
first Marilla Whitman; A second. Sara
Ewing; B second. Julia Nichols; B
third, Maybelle Moses: A fourth, Esther
Richmond; A and B fifth. Grace b.
Miller; A and B sixth, Roberta Divine
Bernice Jones.
Second District Faculty--S. e. Nell
son, Nellie Bell, Mary Lee. Anna Ring,
Emily Mclean May Seal, Lavina Nell
son, Edna Hodge, Julia Powell, Katy
Price, Miss Giddngs.
Ridgedale School-W. T. Davis, prin
cipal; b first. Miss Mary Stewart
Clemenson; first, Nettie Miller Car
ter: A first. Mrs, Adele Long; B Sec
ond. Sarah Lloyd; A second, James
Haymore; b third, Ora Collins; A third
Sailie May Cade; A fourth. Mrs. J. r.
HUMPHREYS; B fifth, Muriel Collins: A
fifth. Mrs Coleman; sixth, Mrs. Huff
faker, Eloise Ware.
Orange Grove-Elolse Drupright.
principal Miss Mildred Mcmillan. Miss
Wantonid Vandergriff.
t- Teacher Shortage.
Supt. Jones states that the supply Of
teachers does not equal the demapd. He
stated that the department OF educa-
ton had established a standard qualifi-
cation for all beginning teachers of at
least two years normal school training
for the elementary schools and had
striven to secure college graduates for
the high schools.
Teachers of the standard required to
do high type Of work are difficult to
secure. There was a shortage of teach
ers in the United States last year OF
10000. and the shortage this year will
perhaps exceed 100000.
This means" said Supt. Jones. that
people who taught several years ago
have been called back into service"
Supt. Jones stated this was bad policy
That no one would want to employ a
lawyer, a doctor, or a minister who had
been retired from active service for ten
evidently lost his hold on his profession.
There Is just as great loss in EN-.
ploying teachers who have been out of
service for that period OF time.
He declared further: I'm all the ef-
forts throughout the country to improve
needed most is qualified teachers
Money alone will not solve the problem,
Doubling the salary of teachers does
not double their efficiency, and while |
the schools need more money. and must
have it, yet good teachers must be the |
public will not be benefited. We need |
good equipment. but we must also have
capable men and women to utilize the |
good equipment. A good teacher with |
poor equipment is better than a poor |
teacher with good equipment. The |
most distressing thing Is the fact that |
while the demand Is increasing for good |
teachers the normal schools and teach
or training institutions are more poorly !
attended than at any period In the his |
tory OF public education. Young men
md women are not entering college or
normal schools TO prepare for teachers.
One reason Is the fact that teaching |
has offered in the past such little re-
ward. The young man or woman on
leaving college is going TO invest his
talent in that honorable calling that of
fers TO him the largest return. unfor-
IedCnlnR uOcS not as
large return as in other professions.
This is the point which the public must
study for the character OF teachers that
are prepared will meet the public de-
nands and no more"
Resolutions Adopted.
The City Teachers institute before
closing adopted the following resolu-
Ions:
we, your committee on resolutions,
reg leave 10 submit the following re-
port:
One OF the characteristics Of life In
IN organism Is growth. When growth
eases retrogression and decay set in.
This is especially true OF the teacher,
" the school or OF school system. Tho
eacher who feels that he has achieved
perfection in method and theory Of edu-
alton and that there is nothing fur-
her TO be added TO his equipment, has
passed the limit Of his usefulness ana
3 ready 10 retire. The difference be-
ween the person who continues TO
mike progress all through his Dfe and
he one whose real life is ended In
lis early manhood is that the former
lways possesses an open mind and the
ttitude OF finding in his environment
urther possibilities OF adjustment. The
ity that Is satisfied with n school sys-
ON that falls short OF having in at
enhance every child OF school age
working under the best possible condi-
ions and making the greatest prog
css possible. is afflicted with dry rot /
nd has shut out the possibility OF fur
her deyeioDment