The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-04-14

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initial is given list of 189 teachers in
service in the schools of Garrett coun-
ty as of March 1, 1921, the list carry
ing ten columns, the ten columns Civ
ing the following information concern
ing each school need from the teach
er's salary point of view for the year
of 1921-1922:
Columns 1, 2 and 8 give the name
of each school in the county, the num-
Der thereof and the election district
in which the same is located.
Column A gives the name of the
present teacher of each particular
school.
Column gives the present grade of
certificates.
Column 6 gives the years expert
ence of each teacher.
Column gives the present salary
paid during 1920-1921 to each of the
189 teachers who were in service on
March l, 1921, which totalizes for ele-
mentary and high school teachers the
sum of $123,350, for which S1O8,925
was actually provided in the levy of
April, 1920.
Column gives the probable grade
of certificate that each teacher, or
some teacher in the county, is to hold
during the year of 1921-1922.
Column 9 gives the years. expert
ence of each teacher that he or she
will have had during the year Of 1921
1922.
Column 10 gives the salary that
each teacher will receive during 1921
1922 according to the State School
law and the salary scale as proposed
which is hegeinbefore set forth. This
column totalizes for elementary and
high school teachers the sum of S141,-
$4,000 as the total amount needed for
teachers during 1921-1922 as set forth
under the requirements described.
Part III-Needs for School Buildings.
Public education is cumulative. The
greater the advance and achievements,
the greater are the demands for still
larger advances and achievements. I'M
provements in public education do not
in any measure lessen the demand for
further advances and achievements,
but only quicken them. There is no
stopping place in education. 1t is the
most prolific of all public institutions.
1t is upon the truthfulness of these
well established principles that public
education is protected as it is today.
1t thrives upon its own growth The ex-
pertinent of our popular form of gov
eminent depends for its success wholly
upon these principles of ever onward
march to greater intelligence. There
is no power that can ultimately with
stand the aggressions of popular ed.
ucation.
In our county, these principles OF
advancement have given birth to two
positive demands: % a living wage
to teachers; and (2) suitable and ade-
quate school buildings. Adequate sal
aries for teachers have been set forth
previously in great detail in this letter
of transmittal. Accordingly, in this
part thereof, we respectfully invite
your attention to the demands for
suitable and adequate school buildings.
The Board of Education of Garrett
county has been besieged for several
years with persistent and repeated re-
quests for suitable and adequate
school buildings 1t was in response
to these demands that a bond bill au-
thorizing a loan of 100000 was pass
ed by the General Assembly of 1920.
The bill failed to become a law at the
general election held last November.
However, the needs and demands for
suitable and adequate school buildings
are still present and active.
The Board of Education for the fol-
lowing reasons does not feel delegated
to ignore these sincere and meritori-
Gus petitions:
l. 1t is not within the province of
the Board of Education to deny
final hearing to those concerned in the
public welfare insofar as securing
suitable and adequate school buildings
is concerned. On the contrary, it is
the prime duty of the Board of Educa-
ton to encourage in all ways that it
consistently can, the advancement of
the educational system of the county.
2. The Board of Education does not
possess sufficient knowledge to state
that the financial limits of the county
do not permit the providing of funds
to meet these demands.
3. Finally, there is such a great
variety of opinion throughout the
whole of the county upon the ability
Of the county to provide in some way
the necessary funds for erecting suit
! able or remodeled school buildings,
that the Board of Education hesitates
to take a dogmatic or autocratic DO
sition in stating that such demands
can not be complied with. The posi-
is more tenablewhen one recognizes
ton taken by the Board of Education
is more tenable when one recognizes
that the final authority in such CUES
tons does not rest finally with the
Board of Education nor with any other
board absolutely. On the other hand,
the problem appears to have its final
solution in the public, or in the social
and economic possibilities of the coun-
ty as those having the proper author
ity may interpret such possibilities.
In this connection, however, the
Board of Education desires to repeat
what it has publicly stated many
times, that it cannot recommend in
any way the securing of necessary
funds for any expenditures for school
buildings that will in any measure
jeopardize or lessen the funds abso-
lutely necessary as set forth in the
Budget, of which this letter of trans
initial is a part, for the proper and ad-
equate maintenance of all of the
schools of the county, which totalize
IS133,900, when the 100000 set forth
after "New Buildings and Equipment"
herein described is excluded. This po-
SitiOn of the county school autb orif;os