Evening star., 1934-05-06
TEACHERS TO OGET
10DAYS' SICK PAY
Half Salary Ordered Re-
stored by Board in
Fairfax.
By a statf Correspondent of The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, May 5.-The res
toration of half pay for teachers on
sick leave was voted today by the
Fairfax County School Board. This
action followed the receipt of nu-
merous resolutions on the subject,
one of them being from the Public
Relations Committee of the Fairfax
County Teachers Association.
The board voted to pay teachers on
sick leave half pay up to 10 days.
William ]. Cleveland. representing
the Lee-Jackson School League, ap-
peared in favor of the pay restoration.
He said that his association had gone
on record as favoring full pay restora-
ton, but believed that the half pay
would relieve the teachers without
giving them an incentive for remain
ing away from their classes longer
than necessary.
Seek New Building.
Delegations from both the Potters
Hill and Woodlawn sections appeared
in the interest of the building of a
new school to replace the Potters Hill
School, which burned short time
ago. The former delegation desires
the replacement of the school on the
original site and the latter advocates
the construction of new school at
Woodlawn to take the place of Potters
Hill.
Mrs. A. Harmon Roberts, represent
ing the Woodlawn School League,
presented a map showing the homes
in the Woodlawn section and the
number of children in each. There
are 203 children below the seventh
grade in the vicinity, she said. She
presented the board with the follow
ing eight points in favor of the Wood
lawn location:
There has been an empty room
at Potters Hill for years; Potters Hill
is located at the corner of a block
of Government land 8 miles around
Woodlawn and Potters Hill are an
equal distance from Accotink, but
Woodlawn is on a better road; there
are a greater number of children
within a 2-mile radius of Woodlawn
and large number can and do walk
to school, all Woodlawn children
would have to be transported if the
school were Abandoned Woodlawn
has a thickly settled school popula-
tion whose parents are fixtures be-
cause of their permanent occupation:
there have been so new houses built
in the section within the past few
years, and there are two subdivisions
in the sections in which the lots have
been sold"
Engage in Heated Argument.
The Woodlawn and Potters Hill
delegations became involved in a
heated argument which was brought
to a close through an announcement
by Chairman John T. DeBell that
the board would defer action on the
location of the school until the con-
troversy over the insurance for the
burned building has been settled. The
Potters Hill delegation questioned the
Woodlawn delegations figures.
Another delegation appeared earlier
to ask that the Lebanon School be
not abandoned and that a new build
ing be erected there instead. The
present building, it was declared by
Mrs Norman Shepherd, spokesman, is
in bad condition and is insanitary.
The people in her section, she said,
are opposed to the proposal of the
school board to close the school and
transport the students to Lorton. This
matter also was left open.
Supt. Woodson presented letter
from Chairman H. Lester Hooker Of
the State Corporation Commission in
which the latter asserted that the
commission has no jurisdiction over
the electric light rates charged to
schools and other governmental agen-
cies and cannot, therefore, grant re-
lief from what the school board
believes are excessive rates. The
board will take this matter up again
with a view of recommending legisla-
tion that will permit reduction in
rates or arrangements of meters to
the benefit of the schools. In some
schools, it was said, there are three
separate meters on which the current
Is charged at different rates.
AS a result of request from Supt.
Woodson, the board decided that
single teachers who leave the county
schools and marry must be considered
as new applicants if they desire to
again teach in the county and will,
therefore. come under a general rule
of the board that no new married
teachers be employed. This rule does
not apply to teachers who marry
while teaching here and wish to