Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-31
welded TEACHERS
IHEAR|NG PROPOSED
Board of Education Seeks
| Views of PubIic-Normal
Course Extended.

Should married girls be barred from
entrance to the two local norman
schools and would 1t be wise to pro-
j,ibit married women from receiving
appointments as teachers in the ele'
mentary grades?
These two questions, brought up at
n suecial meeting of the board Of edu'
cation Yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of adopting q program OF re-
orga nization and extension of the nor
NAL school system, were referred by
the board to officers of the school sys-
tenn for study and in order that the
washington public may have an op-
portunity to express itself on this i'm
portant subject.
Charles F. Carusi, president of the
board, and DR.. Frank w. Ballou, SUI
psrintendent of schools, pointed out
that IL married women are TO De
barred from receiving appointments
IN the school system, there must be
legislation on the subject, inasmuch
"a under the present rules a girl who
married while she was in normal
school or after she graduated could
not be barred from an appointment
If her name is reached in the regular
order.
Public to Give Opinion.
1t was the sense of the board mem
bers that they had no right to decide
whether such legislation should be
sought hastily, but should invite the
public to express itself, either individ-
ually or through organizations. and
receive recommendations from school
officials before placing themselves on
record.
Another question referred to the
school officials for Recommendation by
the board was how long a high school
graduate should be permitted to re-
main eligible for entrance to the nor
NAL school 1t appeared that no more
than two years lapse between gradua.
ton and entrance to the normal school
should be permitted, but action was
DELAYED, as in the case Of the marriage
questions. The board reminded the
school officials that during their study
of these three questions they might
take up any other questions which
they thought should be thrashed out
as a part of the normal school rule
changes.
Three outstanding orders were
adopted by the board in the reor-
ranization of the normal schools, as
recommended in lengthy report
which they have been studying since
It was forwarded to them by United
States Commissioner of Education
John J. Tigert, as follow:
Extension of the normal school
course from two years to three years.
Decision to permit, as in the past.
entrance without examination OF high
school graduates. It had been recon-
mended by the Bureau Of Education
that the entrance without examina.
ton be restricted to the upper half"
of the high school graduating classes.
Reclamation of the policy of pro-
noting local teachers to supervisory
positions where their qualifications are
equal with those of out-of-town APP
plicants.
After the board had adopted IL
resolutions affecting the normal
schools, which were based on the 16
recommendations made by the Bureau
of Education, DIR. Ballou in state
ment thanked the members for their
study Of the normal school problem
for the past several months and de-
clared that he believed they had ac-
complished an outstanding piece of
work in the interest of obtaining bet
ter prepared school teachers through
out the city.
Following are the IL resolutions
adopted by the board:
Resolved, That 1t is the sense of
this board that from and after July
continue to prepare teachers for the
service in kindergartens and in the
grades OF the elementary schools, and
for the present shall not undertake
to prepare teachers for junior high,
senior high or vocational schools.
Continue Graded Plan.
Resolved, that it is the sense of
this board that from and after July
], 1927. the two normal schools shall
continue a graded system of super
vised observation and practice teach
ing.
Resolved, that it is the sense of
this board that the closest co-opera-
ton should be maintained between
the principal and the faculty Of the
normal school on the one hand, ant;
the supervisors OF instruction., the
principals of schools and classroom
teachers throughout the system on
the other, to the end that the grad
yates of the normal school may be
prepared when appointed to take UP
their work as teachers with the min
imum OF necessary adjustment
Resolved, that it is the sense of
this board that the physical training
course in the normal schools be SUI.
hciently broad and intensive to en-.
courage proper health habits in the
normal school students during their
course OF training, to provide pros.
pective teachers on graduation from
the normal school with preparation
in subject matter and methods oil
teaching as will qualify them to teach
health habits and physical training
to children in kindergarten and ele
mentary grades and to enable pros
pective teachers to develop in thei,