The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-10-18
School Cottage Issue
Presented by Teacher
From Different Angle
EDITOR MAUI NEWS:


By request the following is submit
ted on Teachers Cottages:
Many of the home teachers have
read all of the articles you have pub
lished on the above subject and we
are much interested in the different
views because a similar discussion
has been going on among us quietly
for several years. We do no feel
that we get IN even break. Person
ally, am very very much in favor
of Teachers Cottage Furnished" and
furnished teachers cottages. but
think that the teachers who do not
live in school cottages, Coast teach.
ers and Island teachers alike, should
receive equal consideration.
May | cite a few examples TO en-.
'phasize my idea and meaning.
Miss A receives $40, a furnished
cottage, free water supply. free ward
work. Miss b also receives $40 from
which she pays for all the above items
plus travelling expenses.
l. One of our principals has been
paying house rent and travelling ex-
penses for a long time perhaps by
choice now, but she once asked for
a cottage which she did not get
z. A Domestic Science teacher
was sent here from another island, to
a school which had two cottages but
she was asked if she would not get
accommodations elsewhere. She went
up to see the cottages and one of the
Coast teachers who was spending
the vacation there advised her to
move in, saying. First come, first
served" She did so, but that neces-
Stated having the two late corners
occupy the same room. Had she gone
elsewhere as suggested it would have
meant $12 train fare and a walk of
more than a mile from the depot to
school.
3. Another girl, also from another
island, was appointed to a school
where there was a six room cottage;
the principal refused to give her a
room. 1t cost her IS to go to con-
suit her Supervising Principal. Being
a new teacher and not familiar with
the rules and regulations, she missed
the first day out of school and lost
a half Of a months pay. The prin-
cipals husabnd was a plantation man;
they and family occupied the cottage.
d. An island school girl was living
in a school cottage with her sister
Miss x who was a teacher. Miss
X was transferred to another school
where their were several cottages;
she was told ner sister could not stay
with her, so she had to send her away
to board. At the same time another
cottage in another school WAS being
used exclusively by 4 coast teacher
and her sister.
8. A new cottage has been built
in one of the towns presumably for
coast teachers while from the same
town Island teachers must pay trav-
cling expenses to get to their work.
Some coast teachers who were not
able to get rooms in the school cot
tages had to live in the hotels.
6. UP to October first of this year,
n of the cottages had not received
a single piece of furniture. The big
hearted principal who lives near by
volunteered and helped the school
"god-mother" make the place livable
by lending cots, chairs, a table and a
single burner oil stove.
Yes-by all means supply good, sub
stantial, rain proof school cottages
(for teachers and student-teachers),
equip them with modern conveniences
(not necessarily hot water a%ppliances)
put in enough furniture for comfort
including a mattress for each one and