Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-05-14
LETTER TO EDITOR

LETTER TO EDITOR
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Prof. Fox, County superintendent VI
Education, Discusses Proposition
Of Raising Funds AS Suggested by
Major Riley.
To the Editor Of the EvsniGg CdpatdI:
| have read with interest the article
your paper suggesting aAplan by
which the present overcrowded condl-
ion in our schools may be remedied
IN paper the plan sounds good, but IL
practice will il work out? Will any
>ank in the country OF this time adj
yance the large sum OF money needed
IN the collateral suggested? III the
)lan suggested were feasible what
necessity would bond issues be any
low? The County Commissioners
.ould practically bond the county for
my period they saw fit and for any
mount they saw fit to spend.
Unfortunately the money market Is
n such condition our bonds cannot be
disposed of at present. 1t seems
lardly necessary for me to repeat
iere the long list OF NOW over
rowded schools. The executive
committee of the Building Commits
sion, which consisted o, Messrs. st
ieorge Barber. Frank A Munroe and
Daniel Ariniger. after the second tril
the schools decided unanimously
hat the amount named in the Bono
ssue would not be sufficient to take
are of the present very urgent needs
II the schools. This is not an excep-
ional county in this respect. The
act is that is of the % counties ano
he City OF Baltimore secured specia
cts from the last Legislature author
zing bond issues for school building
purposes. These issues range from
$4,000 in Kent county to 100000 il
Alegany county, and several million
n Baltimore city.
Major Riley furthermore states
Not only the matter or additional
.chool buildings must be solved, but
hat of providing a sufficient staff OF
properly equipped and properly paid
eachers-and that there is still lack
ng a really cleancut and definite plan
or the administration and mainten-
nee of the schools we now have"
Maryland ranks twelfth among the
states in teachers salaries and
hirty-seventh in expenditures for
ther than teachers salaries. In
eachers' salaries Anne Arundel
.ounty under the present administers
ION has advanced from eleventh plac.
,mong the counties to fourth place
rhe average salaries paid in tn,
COUNTIES last year ranged from 1871
n Garrett county to 1927 in Baltimore
county. The average for the State be-
ug 5000 per year. Anne Arundel
stood fourth with an average salary
Il $761 per year There has been an
Increase this present year from 80
Der cent to so per cent; our aver
lge salary for the present year being
,ver $1,000 per teacher, representing
a increase of over 100 per cent. in
he last four years. Last fall Anne
Arundel county sent IL girls to the
state Normal School TO begin training
or teachers Heretofore the county
as been sending one or two, often
zone Next fall ] understand there
i'll be some six or eight Annapolis
Ugh School graduates who win ask
or scholarships to the Normal
SCHOOL
Out of 145 teachers now employed
, are first-grade. first-class teachers
gainss SO hrst-grade, first-class
cachcrs in 1916. While at present
acre are only Is third-grade teachers
Employed in the county This is an
unusual record for the times.
Teachers have been sent to Sum
Ter schools at the expense of the
cuasy: promising young girls have
'een urged to attend the State Normal
school: and the Supervisor has held
,lasses on Saturdays to raise the |
standard of the present teaching |
,orps. Teachers came as far as 20
niles to attend these classes and |
lefinite course is planned leading to
he raising OF. the grade of their GER
If there is nothing definite
bout this l should like to have some /
criticism from those who
now better how to d. it.
This county has several corsolid-
ted schools. No ONT is so stupid as
D think that these schools can be run
Tithbut transportation. Furthermore,