Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-27
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South Amboy Board of Edu-
cation Taxes Issue With
Sayreville Board

SOUTH AMBOY. Oct. 27:-By
reason Of the action of the Sayre-
Vile Board of Education in trans
ferring t~wenty-four pupils from the
local schools who are residents OF
Melrose and Ernston, to the newly
c6mpleted school at ~Sayreville, the
focal Board of Education has been
put to a great disadvantage 81
much so that a reduction of Sl.62o
in anticipated tuition fees for n
current year necessarily follows n
action, it is said.
The school board Will appeal 10
the commissioner of education AT
Trenton for a ruling in the matter.
guperintenden Barr of the local
schools has suggested that imme-
date steps be taken to prevent a
like occurrence by means of some
sort of contract binding for at least
one year. &c
A percentage attendance of SO
per cent 10 the first month OF the
school year was considered excel
len by the Superintendent OF
schools.
Four cases of scarlet fever and
two of diphtheria developed amohs
school children this year thus far'
All cases came out of Schoo NO. l:
lIiS SCAlOOl was ~
last spring by the disease.
Mr.. Barr attributes the preven-
ton of an epidemic through h
careful oversight of the school
nurse and health inspector. NO
new cases of scarlet fever have de-
veloped within the past ten days.
The late Mrs. Josephine Clark.
who had been a resident OF TINS CITY
for many years, had in her posses
sion a collection of olros'
II was her wish that they go 10 lhe
south Amboy high school after her
death, Miss Zepp, her sister, noti-
fed the superintendent last week OF
the arrangement, and Mr. Barr had
the cases transferred to the school.
They are temporarily placed In one
Of the science rooms on the second
fIoor of School No. 3. The gift is
highly appreciated by the school. =,
Professor Barr and Crane Will
attend the state high school CONFER
ence being held at Rutgers College,
New Brunswick. today n tomor
row. The high school teachers IN
every instance Will attend n con-
ference tomorrow. >
The County Vocational Board OF
Education has notified the school
board that an appropriation Tor
teachers salaries and .janltor SER
vices for twenty-four nights begin
ming in December.
The board was of the opinion that
the success of the school last year
warranted it being again held in
South Amboy this year. The board
asks for the use of three rooms In
school No. 8.
Mr.. Barr withdrew his lecom-
mendations which he made at the
meeting relative to additional as
sistance TO- the commercial and
physical training departments, be-
cause the Withdrawal of twelve
of the pupils from the junior high
school has relieved Mr.. pawson's
arithmetic classes so that his time
used with the physical training
classes is not needed.
l.. L. Jackson, assistant commits
sioner of education, visited the To-
cal schools for an inspection. He
suggested that the school board
purchase more typewrlters. He
stated that unless this is done it
will necessitate the service of a new
teacher, claiming that the teacher
now in charge would break down
from strain or students would suf-
fer from lack of instruction.
Mr. Jackson lauded the ork OF
the superintendent, saying:
THE o~rigination of your courses
of study and the assignments of
your teachers, shows painstaking
care and good Judgment
AT the August meeting of the
school board it was suggested that
the superintendent of schools re-
wise the rules and regulations. And
with regard to this the superinten-
dent says in his report: 1--WE gone
over rules and regulations very
carefully, suggested several changes
and additions, but did not incorpo-
rate n section relating to teachers
salaries"
I am Of the opinion that we
should adopt a salary schedule with
a states minimum and maximum
for each group of teachers but be-
cause Of frequent charges in a
schedule of that nature due to eco
nomic conditions and growth of
school system, l do not think 1t
advisable to have the schedule print
ed with a set of permanent rules
and regulations. l shall have a
typewriter copy of the revision for
each one of the board within a
short time. A comparison without
present rules will show you just
such changes and additions as have
been suggested"
In the Ease Of the removal of
the twentyfour pupils by the Sayre-
Vile Board of Education the chill
dren were distributed among the
four upger grades and the fifth
grade. Seven pupils were taken
away. The clerk was Instructed
to communicate with the commits
sion Of education for an opinion.