The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-25
TEACHERS Toll
TO RECOUp
FINANCES
UNITED Press Service

| NEi YORK, Aug. 24.-America's
army If public school teachers will
return to school rooms next month
ricns, wiser lot. For they have
cen II al.ing hay while the sun shone
lis umer-msDy of them Literally,
thars fIguratively.
Wien nigh price waves hit the
ranks of the pedagogues last year
ouiua.s O. them were forced to
seek work in other branches of
educat'en and teachers societies were
blamed part time work to aid in
,eeping the wolf from the door until
he ST. SION of school was suded. Still
others resolved to draw on their al
eady-salted away resources and to
tick ii out until the summer vaca.
ion arrived, then to spend the hot
nont,as in working to put the money
pack.
Sch, 81 superintendent, boards of
# en-. eavor, while hundreds of others
asked in several cities how the teach
RS w,e spending the summer, and
low many of them were doing other
than :, hool work, with view to re-
entering the little red school house
| all o.tl the land in September with
| a fat:sned pocketbook.
| SOM of the replies to quiries fol-
low:
NEW YORK-Of the 1881 ele-
mentary, high school and vocational
teachers in the greater city, most
avallabie figures show more than
$500 obtained work on farms and in
office. Approximately 400 worked
al tutoring backward students; 1000
| attended summer and vocational
scho Oh; 600 worked at canvassing,
selling insurance school books and
other field work; 100 conducted Boy
Scout: camps and personally conduct
ed tours to nearby camps and re-
sorts etc, while .150 were reported
as doing chautauqua work. No &C.
.urate record was kept at the board
| IF education offices.
CHICAGO-Incomplete records
kept r, the teachers federation, the
board Of education and parent teach
ers' 6, sociations, show approximate
ly 4,otW of the 1858 teachers in Chi
ago did part or full time outside
work this summer. Most of them
,utorcd, acted as statesmen in depart
.nent stores and in the fiji d, conduct
ed summer camps, and worked on
arm. About 1000 attended sum-
mer u nools in and out II Chicago,
while more than 500 taught in night
schoc.s.
| INElANAPOLIS-E. L. Hines, sup
erinteudent of public instruction, said
that scores of high grade principals
were working as clerks and helpers
tho automobile industry, while hun
lreds had gone to the farms.
| 900, cannot blame the teachers II
they seek outside work, as they de-
,erve more than $500 a year they
low get in the schools. We will
be about 700 teachers short when
chol opens this fall.
ATLANTA-Thirty jer cent of At
anta's school teachers were away at
ollese this summer trying to increase
heir efficiency" according to W. F.
| Dykes, superintendent of schools.
About 20 per cent of the high school
teachers have resigned and their
lace; will have to be filed by others
his tall, Dykes said. This was
one because of low salaries paid, he
aid. Those not attending summer
chools are working as clerks, sales
len and farm hands in end around
Atlant:
DETROIT-Teachers of Detroit are
i vorkirg in automobile factories, and
cling insurance and school books.
Many ore engaged in educational
propaganda work. No records as
70 actual numbers or percentage was
'nept.
i Th.. board of education at Detroit
ras filed suit against the city to
compel payment of bonu' to teach
ers promised in contracts for the
coming year. The city controller
has refused payment and many
) teachers declare they will not re-
turn to school houses this fall unless
The matter IS favorably adjusted.
Coaching students for
high schiol and college, newspaper
; repor: ng, working on farms and in
orchards, and doing clerical wark
have kept Denver teachers occupied
this summer. Scores of teachers OF
both sexes have been attending sum-
mer Shoots. Chances favor an in
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