Show Low iLow Salaries Menace I Utah Public Schools Underpaid Teachers Compelled to Decide to-Decide Be Between veen Their Chosen Profession and Work Offering Offering Living Living W Wages O Other ler States States Pay More i Remedy Is Sought UTAH cannot remain indifferent to the plight of her school teachers with without ut inviting disaster for the public sch school ol system and the future citizenship Education Edu is the bulwark of American strength and progress and Utah has ever eyer experienced a n just pride in high rugh standards These standards stan stan- lards dards at the present moment arc are threatened by salaries which do not provide li living conditions commensurate with the character of the tho teaching corps The condition is general extending to every school district in the state It js is complicated by budgets prepared before the existing existing- conditions were so pressing That a school teacher entrusted with our most sacred mission in life the education of our children should not be compelled to struggle on against g oppressive living liing conditions on on salaries ranging from 14 to 25 a week is where everywhere conceded Incentive Must Be o. o p rj Given for Study Study I Yet this is precisely what teachers are aro d doing ing at a time when messenger boys bos display a bigger pay envelope Right night hero here is where all the tho finer instincts and elme elements of life are preserved Hero Here is where Bolshevism sm is to be dealt the death blow and education cs established cst ed as an clement in life worth striving for What incentive can there be for study study for for education when men and I women who have ha spent the best p part rt o of t their lives preparing to carry on t i ret J less lei ss remuneration on than the untrained untrained unskilled unskilled workman who has hns never nc received the advantage of an e education 7 How TIow are we goi going g to to maintain high stand standards r s of education when every walk of life holds holds' out greater prospects 0 of of decent living conditions than the teaching profession 7 low ITow aro we wo to ex expect ct our eh children r n to carry o. o on ori the march ema ch of progress when tutored by the underpaid teachers Teachers Can Earn More l i In Other Occupations I Men an and women who constitute our teaching corps corps- cannot long remain at nt their posts on the salaries now paid They can earn more money live lire better an and enjoy luxuries now denied them in other lines Changes are being forced b by salaries which deprive them of the necessities of life No doubt changes in occupations entail sacrifice of their noble mission in life but it is the children the state and its citizenship which will suffer not surfer not the tho teachers Utah Ufah has gone too far in establishing a high hig-h standard of education to permit her teachers to desert the profession or to respond t to the call of other states where better prospect prospects await them An emergency exists and heroic measures arc are needed to reach rench a solution of tho the difficulties Procrastination Procrastination Pro Pro- on will not reach the problem A solution of the tho difficulties is necessary it necessary it is imperative c J j oJ a H h t Jf ff Vl Way l i Be Found to ay Better Present Conditions v The time has hns come when the way way must be found to provide pro our teachers with ith salaries commensurate with living lhing conditions Complications beset the program as tho the laws which govern the issue of providing additional money are firc subject to debate But there should bo be o no such word as cannot in inthis inthis inthis this emergency The way is to be found as officials and public alike learn and ana appreciate tho the burden under which the teachers arc are struggling Boards of education in iI every cry section of the state have shown a sympathetic understanding understanding under under- standing of the problem The Tho public is sympathetic and there is no good reason why a way cannot be bo found when tho proper determination is shown b by the proper officials and the public alike I t. t i A i J Calling Special Election n i f T. Is Means leans of Solution The Tho intent of the tho existing law luw covering co tho the me means ns of raising money to meet the salary needs of Limo of-Limo the tho teachers is mooted On the one hand hund it is held helel prohibitive of or action fiction and und on the other hand it is declared authorization to go o before Jre the people with the problem Wo Yo believe belie that wisdom lies in resorting I Ito to the latter r course in the existing emergency Dan B. B Shields attorney general declares in a n. formal opinion that tho the avenues a to the people aro are Continued on page jago 2 Z I Low Salaries Menace Utah Public Schools Continued from Pago Page 1 open and that it is possible for tho the public to say whether it will issue bonds bond s to meet the needs Under this decision no board of education should experience hesitancy y in n t taking king the proper steps stops toward proper calling elections special for the tho necessary y expression from the people Tho The Granite board of education has already alread y taken aken this course and found the taxpayers taxpayer willing and anxious to extend the ye e necessary rv relief tho the bond issue carrying ing b by an m overwhelming o majority onty Members l of Salt SaIt Lake Board Are rc Sympathetic For the thc majority of the school districts in m the tile state this is the only course which will provide the necessary fun funds s for increasing tho teachers' teachers salaries Ie 1 Members bers o of the Salt SaIt Lake ake City board boar of education have struggled in n vain ain ain for far a solution From the tho outset they have hae be been n as sympathetic as ns nse the e teachers have ha been patient un under er the existing g conditions They rhey have I gone in into tinto tb the a condition thoroughly thorough reaching t the h e e on c lu sl ori t h o t nothing can cane canI I be e done under the existing budget and revenue I Belief elief has been promised promise for the forthcoming school year but this does doe not remove remO the men menace ce confronting the state slate When the current school year rear r leas mS expired teachers will bo be looking for better contracts and they cannot be exp expected to remain here in anticipation of a solution of tho the Utah problem Other cities arc are now offering g better inducements to Ito teachers and it is reasonable reasonable reasonable reason reason- able to believe that they will take advantage ad of tho the situation to increase their educational standards s by obtaining the highest type of teachers Sh Shows Standard I IJ Survey rs 4 J I. I rt II In This City Is Is Low Lov i Regular teachers in the elementary schools of Salt Lake w without experience experience ex ex- receive and for the thc first j years year's ears ear's work The maximum satar salary reached after ten years years' service is 1300 In many sections of the thc state tate tho the s salaries are still lower lo Denver has a n minimum salary sabry of 1000 a year jear an and h a a maximum of 1500 San Diego has a 1 minimum of 1008 am ama and anda a ma maximum of 1500 1500 while the Los 03 Angeles minimum is 1100 Un Under er the Los Angeles stan standard ard a 1 teacher en entering cring tho the service sen without actual experience ence gets as much the first year Scar as do dogs does s a n. Salt Lake teacher after six years cars of service Utah cannot hope to hold bold her best teachers un under cr these conditions condition and hence it is necessary for Ole the people of the sUl state e to take definite ant and decisive e action in the best in interests r of their children who ho arc but th the I citizens of tomorrow A solution should b be foun found |