Evening star., 1934-04-19
FUND TO PROMOTE
TEACHERS SOUGHT
Board of Education Asks
District Auditor to Push
S3,400 Item.

The District auditor was asked to-
day by the Board of Education to un-
dertake to have inserted in the pend
ing 1885 appropriation bill an item of
$3,400 to provide for promotion of "a
teachers who had qualified for eleva-
tion to groups B and D in the teach
ers' salary schedule.
The boards request was forwarded
by its secretary, Harry o. Hine, in &C
cordance with board action taken at
the meeting late yesterday. Local No.
8 of the American Federation of
Teachers filed request for promotion
of these teachers with the School
Board yesterday. DR.. Frank w. Bal
lou, superintendent Of schools,
promptly recommended that the
Board of Education request the Dis
trict auditor to seek the necessary
funds for the promotions. The rec
ommendation was approved unani-
mouSly
In board action on another of DR..
Ballou's recommendations, however,
the superintendent was voted down,
4 to 8, when the board agreed to close
the schools at the end of the first
session Friday to enable both pupils
and teachers to attend the Cherry
Blossom Festival. parade. DR.. Ballou
urged the board to excuse from class
only those pupils who rought notes
from home asking that they be ex-
cused He argued seriously that the
school board, in closing the schools
for the afternoon, was taking "a grave
responsibility on its shoulders in turn
ing out children to meet traffic haZ-
ards" without their parents permis-
sion. If the District and Federal
Governments dismiss their employees
Friday, he told the board, he would
dismiss the School Board employees,
including teachers.
Advocates Civic Sense.
Henry I. Quinn, board member, re-
piled that the board did not take its
responsibility quite so seriously when
it gave the youngsters holiday on
Easter Monday to go downtown TO
participate in egg fetes."
Continuing, Mr.. Quinn declared:
"I believe we should close school
Friday afternoon If for no other rea-
son than to develop a civic sense in
our children. There should be at least
one big civic affair of which our chill
dren can be really proud and this
Cherry Blossom Festival is it,
cjlliooy1 ranVpd thof the
schools be dismissed at noon Friday
and Mr.. Quinn seconded the motion.
AS several members spoke in favor OF
the measure, DR.. Ballou suggested
that, for purposes of better admins
tration, the motion read to close the
schools at the end of the first session
which is l pm. This was approved
and passed.
New nonresident pupils will be
barred from attendance at the Alice
Deal Junior High School beginning
next September because of conges-
ton there, under action by the School
Board at its meeting yesterday. Mary
land children already enrolled will not
be required to transfer to another
school, but will be permitted to con-
tinue to graduation. DR.. Ballou ad-
vsed the board that by deducting from
the present enrolment at Deal the
number of pupils who will be grad
uated in June and adding to the re-
mainder the known pupils who will
enter the school from other public
schools in September, the roll then
will be far greater than the building
possibly could provide for.
Enrolment Up zoos.