Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-08-02
NO STRIKE AMONG
STATE TEACHERS
Tho Most of Them Will Have
To Work Seven Months For
Six Months Salary
(Bs Associated Press)


Frankfort, KY, August 2-The
desire to obtain further knowl-
edge, as evidenced by the hard
ships endured by many teachers
Of the state in attending the teach
ers' summer training schools
which recently closed, has con-
vinced Charles D. Lewis, state
director cf teacher training. that
Kentucky is on its way up the ed
ucational ladder.
i During the summer $500 men
and women were enrolled in the
| 90 white schools, and the e:gh:
negro schools had an enrolment
! OF between 500 and 700. In ad-
dition there were close to 1.50G
in private normal schools and as
! many more enrolled at the Uni
,, versity of Kentucky and at the
state Normal schools, Mr. Lewis
said.
The teachers didn't so to and
from classes in automobiles. as is
the custom with students at many
universities. On the other hand
some rode mules, others walked
several miles daily and still others
drove horse and buggy over dirt
roads in order that they might
acquire knowledge to pass along
to their pupils during the coming
session.
In Fleming ty. for instance
Mr.: Lewis hat one Wo-
man dali 8aci, and fCrtl
to school IN a buggy. distance
of ID miles each way. She ais
kept house, attended to her two
children, washed and ironed anC
with the exception of four cay
that she was absent tcl take car
! Of her household duties, did no
miss a roll call.
In the same county was a ma
81 years old who has been teach
! ing for many years. He was adeP
at teaching the three RS bu
! physical education Wah a ney
subject to HIM. However. he wa
undaunted after weeks cf phys;
can training had failed to equi1
him as well as he desired to b
equipped for teaching the chi
dren to play games. So he re
quested permission to take two
more weeks of physical training
and for two additional weeks he
played tag, ran relay races an(
the like with the younger teach
ers.
Each morning in Cumberland
county crippled man rode null
back over twelve miles of noun
tain road and returned over the
same route after the last class il
the afternoon. Another man il
the same county walked IS miles
to town Monday morning and re-
turned Friday evening, while
woman who had been teaching 4C
years went the same distance on
horseback Monday morning and
returned home, at the end Of the
week.
Mr., lewis pointed out that as
result of the summer training
schools approximately 1000 teach
ers of Kentucky are better pre-
pared to teach the boys and girls
of the state during the coming
winter.
George Colvin, State Superin-
tendent of Pubic Instruction,
commenting on the eagerness
shown by teachers to acquire fur
ther knowledge, said many in the
backward counties had come to
him with tears in their eyes. adj
nitted they had not been quail
fed in the past to teach and said
they now wanted to do every
thing in their power to right the
wrong they felt they had done.
The teachers training schools,
Mr.. Lewis said, have been substi-
tuted for the old weekly institute,
where no study was done. These
schools mean hard work. the
teachers reviewing the subjects
they are to give instruction in and
studying supplementary text
books along with them. Every
thing is focused on the problems
of turning out better teachers"
Mr.. Lewis declared
In close t. or cent of the
kentuckv to Mr.. Lew
is, the lers during the COM
ing session are going TO teach
seven months for the same an
nual salary they previously have
taught six months and they are
not complaining. There is not
going to be any strike, he said.
This condition was brought
about by the General Assembly