Evening star., 1924-06-12
TEACHERS OPPOSITION DEFEATS
RATING BY PROBABILITY CURVE"
School Board Postpones Aciion on Ne,u Method for
Year-TM Develops Orer Converting Jefer-
son Building Ilxo Junior High.

| Yeatman, president of the South
| Washington Citizens Association. he
| said, had appeared at hearing con-
/ Quoted by the committee at Dr. Bal
| lou's request.
In reply, Supt Ba!!ou said
that Mr. Yeatman had come to
! see him of his own volition and only
because he was interested in having
the junior high school in the south
west, and that Mr.. Peyser had tempo
preceding Meeting of the board
There isn't the slightest ground for
| Capt. Peysers implication that l had
| anything to do with the way those
| persons testified at the committee
meeting" declared he superintendent
Submits Bill as Proof.
Capt. Peyser than said he had seri-
an preparation available for con-
ve-ting the Jefferson into a junior
high school,
Would you believe it if you saw it
in black and white?" queried DR..
Ballou.
Yes" replied Capt Peyser.
DR. Ballou then sent a copy of the
| District appropriation bill to Capt.
Peyser, who was seated at the op-
posite end of the boards table. Capt.
have seen a different bill" he COM
mented in returning the document to
the superintendent.
At the request of Mrs. Giles Scott
Rafter. president of the District Con-
gress of Parent-Teacher Associations,
the. board voted to urge the school
officers to cooperate with members
of the organization in obtaining his
torical and other data concerning the
schools. Mrs. Rafter also advised the
board that her organization has in
dorsed Mrs. William Wolff Smith for
the position of director of the COM
munity center department.
Summer Schools to Open.
The opening of the summer schools
and the school Fairgrounds on July
was authorized by the board on
recommendation of DR.. Ballou.. The
start of the summer school session
this year, the superintendent ex.-
planned, has been delayed several
days due to the convention here of
the National Education Association
A recommendation of DR.. Ballou
that Miss Mary Watts be appointed
assistant principal of Eastern High
School to succeed Miss Kate Buck
nam. who has requested that she be
restored to a teaching status, was
| referred to the personnel committee.
The censorship of news at the ad-
ministrative ; headquarters of the
school system in the Franklin School
Instituted several months ago, was
removed by unanimous vote of the
cfal committee appointed to investi-
gate the effects of the so-called gag
| rule"
The boards session yesterday aft
ernoon was the final one of the cur
| rent scholastic year. A reorganiza-
tion meeting will be held July 1 to
administer the oath of Office to the
new appointees and the election of
of1cers for the ensuing year
Changes in personnel approved by
Y o~1 fol1
Resignations-R E. stitt.' teacher
class 2, Woodburn School; J. o. Cade,
teacher, class ga. Western High
School: Ferdinand Erickson, teacher,
class GA, Mckinley High School; A.
M. Woodrow, teacher, class ga. Nc
Kinley High School; w. M. Apple,
teaeher. class ga, Mckinley High
School; A. NJ. Poston,. teacher, class 4
Park View School.
Terminations--H E. Hodges, teach
er, class 4, Langley Junior High
School; Vivian Vestal. teacher, class
4. Macfarland Junior High School; H.
L. Benner, teacher class 4, Colum bia
Junior High School: e. c. : Krey,
I teacher. cASsS 4 domestic Aoience.E