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Show There is a tendency to profligacy in the school board which might as well be checked now as ever. The domand for an extra teacher to fill the place of regular teachers in case of siknoss, etc., is in the line of extravagance. Experience Experi-ence shows that such extra teachers wherever employed act more in the capacity ca-pacity of clerks to the superintendent than in the capacity. for whioh they are paid. There may be weeks before a regular teacher is sick, and why should the extra teacher draw a fat salary in the meantime? In case of a temporary vacancy occuring in any school the principal ought to be able to arrange , the work among her teachers without detriment to the pupils. That is the way it is done in other vocations and in other cities and it ought to be done so here. There is no use whatever in trying try-ing to manage the schools of Salt Lake on the scale of New York.- |