The Washington herald., 1922-10-05
new NIGHT SCHOOL
SALARY SCHEDULE
FORMALLY PASSED
All U. S. Workers Paid
Over $4,000 Yearly to
Quit Teaching.
DENY AUDITORIUM
TO MANY SOCIETIES
Students Forbidden to Enter
"Own Your Own Home"
Essay Contest.

The new night school salary
schedule. by which approximately
twenty members of the night
teaching stan will be forced to re-
tire. was formally adopted at the
regular meeting of the Board Of
Education yesterday afternoon.
The new schedule is designed TO
conform with the law prohibiting
government employees who are also
members of the public school staff
from receiving An aggregate sal
airy rate of more than $4,000 a
year.
The new schedule. it is said. will
necessitate the release of prac-
tically every government employe
who is teaching in the public
schools.
While Inis action was taken re-
| luctantly and only as a means of
/ conforming with the law, il was
stated approximately IL per cent
! of the money spent in night school
/ salaries will be saved. BY the new
| arrangement. teachers will be paid
| for the actual number of nights
they teach instead of on a monthly
| basis.
Day Teachers Restricted.
Another measu-e affecting night
schools was adopted yesterday when
the board directed that hereafter
no teacher will be permitted to
teach in the day schools. night
schools and in summer schools dur
ing the same year. 1t Is believed
this not only imposes a physicar
hardship upon the individual, but
keeps other teachers from employ
ment.
A third measure provided that
teachers in the day schools will not
be permitted to teach more than
three nights a week in the night
schools.
Yesterdays meeting was marked
by the refusal of that body to ac-
| quiesce in requests OF numerous or
| ganizations and individuals to use
school buildings for purposes other
/ than educational.
The request of local Democrats TO
hold a political rally in the Central
High School auditorium was re-
fused on the ground that a similar
request by local Republicans was
turned down two years ago. A
number of board members, however.
made 1t plain that they believed a
more liberal attitude should he
adopted which would permit the use
of school buildings for any legiti-
mate meeting of citizens.
Symphony Orchestra Denied.
The board also refused the re-
quest that Central High auditorium
be reserved for use by the New York
symphony Orchestra on the night OF
October "a. This was done, 1t was
stated. because other requests to
use the auditorium for money-mak.
ing purposes have been denied.
Due to the fact that the National
Theater, in which the concert was
to be held, probably will not be
ready by October "a, II was planned
to give the concert in the Central
High School.
A request by a local real estate
co-cern that school children be al.
lowed to compete in writing essays
on the subject. why You Should
Own Your Own Home was refused
by the board. Members held that
the subject smacked too much OF
advertising.
Removal of the portable school
building at the Peabody School
which was requested by the Stanton
Park Citizens Association, failed to
receive Endorsement of the board
when 1t was explained that ths
school is being used as an Ameri.
canization school. Mrs. william B
Harding, of the Daughters of tht
American Revolution, heartily sup,
ported the board. declaring that this
portable building is used in place
of a rented building located on az
alley which was used last year.