The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-02-03
TEACHERS BILL
TOBE DNTRODUC %

R. L. Brown, recently appoint = elt
secretary of the North Dakota fa
tional Association, teachers s ARE
department, with headquarters 8 khis
city, is conducting preimin' S lam.
paign of education among le ltors
of ti.e ssate. previous to intr' g jng q
minimum training and sal g bill
Circulars are now being prir 3 show
ing the scale of teachers 8 and
how they compare with OF work
ing classes. These circuls will be
sent to all the legislators a. marck
and also to county superintendent OF
the state.
The minimum training and salary
. bill provides: !,
A minimum training and wage bill
to be introduced in the state legisla-
ture, provides that teacher to enter
teaching after the passage and ap-
proval Of this act shall be graduates
of four year high school course or its
equivalent. This will give all teach
ers now teaching, who have less train
I ing than that amount, the right to
teach in the schools Of this state un-
til the teacher shortage is overcome
or they desire to retire. Surely no one
can be competent teacher for our
boys and girls who has less training
than the above amount, and no one will
question the advisability of that bill
on those, grounds or that they should
have more preferably some normal
or college training.
The minimum wage portion of the
bill seeks to put teachers at least on
an equal with hotel, restaurant and
telephone employees. To accomplish
this the bill seeks to place the mini
mum wage for persons now teaching
and with less training than four
wear high school course, or it's equiva-
lent, ION practically the same basis as
such employment above referred to.
The present minimum for lowest class,
as factory, hotel, restaurant, etc., are
by law to receive $825 per year for
a fifty week year. The teachers ask
for the above class of teachers a wage
of $50 per year. A high school
graduate or one who. has had four
years of training beyond the eighth
grade, shall receive the approximate
of what a stenographer with similar
training receives under our present
law or $1,000 year. For each year of
training beyond high school, includ
ing one year normal, two year nor
NAL, three year courses and college de-
g.rees, each teacher shall receive a
slightly larger salary than the high
school graduate.
For teachers of experience, the bill
provides that boards of education shall
pay more for each year of experience
than the minimum law, the amount of
increase to be determined by the
board of education, making the en-
ployment and the law Of supply and de-
mand.
All this bill it is hoped, will meet
the approval Of the pslJ3iet II
fair for those upon whom the security
of our democracy rests, the public
school teacher. It hopes to attract
people into teaching as profession
and in larger numbers than at present
in order to overcome the present
teacher shortage. It hopes also to
raise the required training to teach
in our schools which can only be done
by placing a minimum salary on a
solid basis.
The salaries of the bill are about
equivalent and in many cases much
lower than is being paid today by the
school districts of this state. On ac-
count of this there should be very
little if any opposition to the proposed
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