Evening star., 1921-03-17
SCHOOL TEACHERS
AGE LIMITS ARE SET
None Over 40 in Elementary
Nor Over As in High Schools
Are to Be Named.

| Age limits for teachers applying
for positions in the District public
schools were established for the mrs,
time by the board Of education at Its
meeting yesterday afternoon in the
Franklin School.
| Hereafter. no person over forty
years old will be appointed to teach
in the elementary or vocational
| schools, and none more than forty.
| Eve years will be taken in the high
! and normal schools. However. teach
ers who have had previous experience
| in the local schools Will be reinstated
up to the age of fifty-two years. This
ruling was made, it was explained. or
account Of the teachers retirement
law.
| Aaked to Abolish Rule.
! Upon the recomme ndation of Miss
| Anna NJ. Goding, principal OF the
| Wilson Normal School. Supt. BalloG
requested the board to abolish itt
ruling which requires students of the
normal schools to take a pledge tS
teach at least two years after grad
uation. Action on this request was
| deferred on motion of Mrs. Susie Roo'
Rhodes.
Recommendations of DR.. Ballot
| calling for number of changes n
textbooks now in use IN tne
| elementary schools were adopted pJ
the board The new texts. which In
| clude the subjects Of arithmetic, MS.
! tory. hygiene and physiology and
! supplementary readers, will be intro
| duced in the graded schools at the be
ginning of the 19s1-1922 academic
| year in September.
| Peabody school Asks Light.
! N. E. Gregory. representing the
Stanton Park Citizens Association
appealed to the board to insert In the
estimate to be submitted to the Com
missioners for presentation to Con-
gress at the extra session. an appro'
| priation sufficient to provide ade-
quate lighting facilities for the Pea
body School. He also requested that
the board acquire property adjoining
| this school. which. he pointed out
could be used temporarily as play
ground. and ultimately q site for an
addition to the building. He pointed
out that overcrowded conditions at
the school now made an addition
necessary.
Changes NJ Approved.
! Changes In personnel approved by
the board are as follows. :,
porafy. IR.'0'%saisM teacher. Mckiniey ns"' High
, Night: P. r. Miner. permanent. class
1. Bruce; c. E. g. Lee, permanent.
! Armstrong High. class ga: E. H.
Brown. permanent. class GA. Dunbar
High; Lydia Brown. permanent. class
manent. class 2. Military Road; r. E.
Duffey, permanent, class 2. Banneker:
F. G. snowden. permanent, class 2.
Jones. 8. l. West. permanent, class
2; Giddipss: G: " Ware. temporary sIry
permanent. class 3. west: E. T.
Fisher. permanent. class Q. Johnson;
L. E. Stewart. permanent, class GA.
Mckinley High: eM. B. Barton. per.
manent. class 2. Van Buren,; A. N.
GA, Central High; e. L. Thompson.
probationary. class 3. music: E. L.
Sasscer. probationary. class ). Lang
don; w. r. Stokes. instructor and
armorer. class 2. probationary; Es-
e. v. brown: Delight Heal, proba-
i,pn prosaiionary. s.ss. Class !. w.ishtrnan:
NJ. NJ. Jones, probationary, class Q.
smallwood: M. B. Mclaughlin. pro.
bationary. grade 7. wheatiey;, m: L
o. NJ. Magruder, probationary. class
2, E. " Brown: B. C. Norris. proba-
! tionary. class Z. Lenox; H. A. Burch-
field. probationary. class 3. Green
leaf; NJ. c. Calvin. probationary. class
class Q. Blake; r. r.. Day. proba-
tionary military Instructor. class 1;
M. l. n, F'rankenfeld. probationary,
| class 8. Webster; H. NJ. Gardner. pro-
bationary. class Q. Greenleaf; A. F.
GIeenwooS: Pre- probationary; ell class Hs,,S g.
temporary. class 3. Lenox: NJ. E.
Gross. temporary. class 1. lexington;
Seraphim Elefsiades. temporary, class
3. Manual Training; 9. E. Hosg.
temporary. class Ga. Western High:
T. vaa senT,s. Tss: pEEcosat;onaFFy a Fsrxeson s.ass
probationary, class 5. carbery: NJ. A.
weldon. probationary, class I. Blow
N b. Kuykendail, probationary.
class 3. Congress Heights: J. c.
franklin. probationary. class 3. Blake.
class 3. 18th and Monroe streets.
Transfers ana Prenetio.s.
e. v. Elicit. Kindergarten assistant.
Brightwood Park to Powell: Grace PEN
ney. teacher. from grade s to grade I.
teacher. from grade 8 to grade :.
grade i. Congress Heights to Bryan
r. c. Robertson. teacher. grade 3 to
grade 4. Congress Heights; H. ".
Harper. teacher. grade to grade
S, Bryan: L. ". Lynch. teacher. class
{ to class "a, music. Western High;
I. r lexis. teacher. grade s. Powell,
to grade Z. West: E. H. Iampson.
teacher. grade 8. Petworth. to
grade s, Powell: c. H. shipley.
teacher, grade s to grade 8, Pet
worth; e. c. Thomas. teacher, grade
6. Bradley, to grade 5. Petwortf B.
r. Beatoil. teacher. grade S. Green
leaf, to grade 6. Bradley: A. I. Rich
mond, teacher. grade 9 to grade 4.
van Ness: Z. A. Gardner. teacher.
grade 5, Carbefy. to grade 7. Pea
body; H. c. Bostfon. teacher. grade
s. Blow. to grade Z. Taylor; c. E.
Challice. teacher. grade 6. to grade
Z, Henry POLK; r. A. Dusan. teacher.
grade s: Blake. to srade s. Henry
POLK; liia1 dHH Eysrseld Menla. tstchsr cache:
northeast. to grade Z. Langdon: NJ.
s. isth and Monroe streets northeast:
q. A. Sartwell. teacher, grade 8 to
Grade 4, 18th and Monroe streets
northeast; S. B. Waters. teacher.
Grade z, West, to grade 8. Takoma
&. G. Guilfofd, teacher. grade 4, Van
Ness, TO grade S. Greenleaf; Ruth
Barnes, teacher. grade 4. Carbery, to
grade s. Carbery: E. c. Espey. teach
Wb.stisy; y. II. catom. teacher,
grade I. Henry Polk. to grade !.