Evening star., 1921-10-28
WANT SUBSTITUTE
TEACHERS TRAINED
School Authorities Would Es.
tabIish Regular Corps to
Meet Emergencies.

Imperative need Of trained corps OF
| paid substitute school teachers will be
emphasized by school authorities when
Congress begins consideration Of the
District appropriation bill. it was in
| dicated today at the Franklin School.
administrative headquarters of the
school system.
For years the board of education and
the officials of the schools have pointed
regular force of subs .itute teachers and
have provided for it's creation In the
school budgets, but the requisite appro-
prla lions never have been granted.
When the school estimates for the
next fiscal year were sent to the Com
miss.oners they contained an item for
the appointment OF a corps Of regular
substitute teachers. Whether this f,em
has been eliminated in the slashing
process the estimates went through in
he hands OF the Commissioners and the
Duuget bureau was not revealed. School
officials. however, are determined to
make strong plea for this urgent need
when they go before the Senate and
House District committees.
Force of Thirty Needed Now.
An initial force of about thirty reg
ular substitutes, according to one Of
Iicial, is needed at once. This force.
is is believed, could be augmented
rom time to time. until the school
system has d large corps of SubSti-
tute teachers who would be used dur
ing the time they are not actually re-
placing regular teacher in coaching
backward children.
Under the present arrangement of
Employing persons to substitute for
regular teachers officials are not
certain whether the substitutes can
always be found when wanted. All
supervising principals and high school
principals have list of persons who
nave signitied their desire to act as
substitute teachers In many instances
these persons are not available VIII n
Aeeded. and usually pupils are called
upon to act as monitors in classes
where the regular teachers are absent.
Other Reasons Assigned.
There are several other outstanC-
ject to the present method of employ
ing suDS.ilu.>s. ri..&, --..
contend, it makes the employment of
Il substitute contract between the
substitute and the regular teacher
Second. the best qualified persons are
not obtained as substitutes. because
they do not get intimate with the
school service.
Substitute teachers in the schools
now consist prlncipaily OF former
teachers. They are paid by the reg
ular teacher at the rate of $40 Il
day for the first thirty school days.
For the next thirty school days the
regular teacher is absent she is fore
ed to give up 81 a day to the substi-
tute. If the regular teacher is alb
sent for a period over sixty school
days she gives the substitute her en-
dire salary. This schedule is Tor the
elementary schools.
High School Scale.
The high school substitutes receive
a slightly higher scale, which starts
with sass for the first thirty school
days and increases proportionately
with the grade school substitute pay
High school principals and super
vising principals have more persons
listed as substitutes than ever before
in the history of the school system
according to the officials. This is due,
they say, to the unemployment sit
uation.