Evening star., 1925-03-11
VOTES OUT LOWER
SALARY SCHEDULE
Education Board to Further
Consider Matter of Fixing
Substitute Teachers Pay.

A move to have the Board of Educa-
ton adopt the lower pay schedule for
substitute teachers proposed by the
Teachers Council was blocked tenn
porarily at a special joint meeting of
the board and the council last night
in the Franklin School
Championing the regular teachers
recommendations. Cant. Julius I. Pey-
ser. near the close of a three-hour
session, moved that the board put
into effect Immediately the COM
promise salary schedule for substi-
tutes submitted bv the council, which
fixes a minimum rate of SO day
for that class of teachers instead
of 81, as now in effect The motion
was defeated by a. vote of to 3,
Capt. Peyser, Ernest Greenwood and
Mrs. Lillian Y. Heron voting in the
Affirmative.
Although opposing the lower sal
airy scale recommended by the coun-
Gil, the board agreed to give further
consideration to the substitute pay
controversy at its regular meeting
next Wednesday. In the meantime.
the supervising principals, who first
proposed an increase for the substi-
| tutes, will be asked to furnish the
board with additional data to show
whether the higher salary had i'm
proved the quality of the substitutes.
Mrs. Florence H. Rogers. Miss NJ.
Gertrude Young. Dorothy Pelham,
Mrs. Edith C. Paul and Miss Sibyl
Bal. Baker appeared as the principal
Janet McWilliam, Selden NJ. Ely and
Miss Jessie LaSale, supervising prin-
cipals, upheld the original contention
of their group that the higher pay
scale now in force is necessary to
obtain satisfactory substitutes.
Statement by Teachers.
The teachers representatives made
it clear that they are not trying to
hold the pay of substitutes down, but
resent the present system by which
a deduction is made from the salary
of the regular teacher who Is absent,
Their chief complaint was that Wash
ington allows no leave of absence
with full pay for teachers who are
i'll.
Miss Young stressed the fact that
many teachers came to the school i'll
because they could not afford 90 lose
a large portion of their saLry, with
the result that the health of their
pupils are menaced.
'It is sad commentary on educa-
ton not to allow the teachers at
least one day month sick leave with
full pay" she declared. Large cor
porations do It,"
Miss Pelham argued that the in
crease granted the substitutes is
way out of proportion" to the raise
given the regular teachers in the
salary bill. She also emphasized that
a regular teacher is a specialist and
a substitute is not, and therefore Is
not entitled to the same salary given
the regulars. Moreover, she n" in
tanned that the quality of the b.
Stitute service has not improved since
the higher salary for substitutes went
into effect
The increases given the substitutes.
Miss Baker contended. work a real
injustice" on the regular teachers.
We have been told how to pay the
substitutes" she said. but not how
better substitutes are to be obtained"
Charles Hart, principal of Eastern
High School. appearing as the repre-
sentative of the senior and junior
high school principals, recommended
the adoption of the councils COM
promise schedule as the equitable
one.
Superintendent of Schools Frank w.
Ballou agreed wi.h the teachers that
the present arrangement for sub
stitute pay and service Is not we'll
conceived. but pointed out that legis-
lation would be necessary to correct
the situation.