| Show t j A Washington Daybook By Dy y RODNEY RODNEr DUTCHER WASHINGTON April 14 Tc 14 The Theman man weaving wearing a leather coat who sells apples In front of ot the National Geographic building was for ten years jears a teacher He Ho is out of oC work Patronize him and turn the patronage patron patron- age of others his way until he gets sets a better Job That on the bulletin board of or the National Education association is Ls the first thing you learn when you ou g gOto go goto to that place to learn what the economic eco ceo depression ion h has done to education education educe educe- tion and the schools There have been isolated cases in areas areas' badly stricken by drought where schools have been closed when banks failed and county or community community community tax money disappeared In other places t teachers acher have had to cervo without pay Occasionally wages have been decreased or Dl teaching stalls staf reduced An unknown unknown un un- un- un known number of young people have had to give up college courses And there has been an unusual number of 01 children who ho couldn't go to school on cold days because they had no shoes nUT BUT FEW BUDGETS SLASHED On 01 the other hand it is evident education has not been seriously hurt Threats to slash school budgets have not materialized in the great ma ma- of c cases es and teachers teachers' wages representing about 75 15 per r cent of those Jiose SC budgets have fared at least aswell as s aswell aswell well as those in business The scarcity of jobs has tended to keep many cl children in school who otherwise would have left Adult education has been appreciably stimulated with ith the Increase of or enforced enforced enforced en en- forced leisure School buildings too are ore being erected d in response to the build now campaign So much one learns from various sources here The Thc National Education thin tion association put on an nn early spring tpring drive demanding that children children chil chil- dren should be last to suffer durIng during dur dur- ing depression after receiving reports re rc- rc ports of ot many proposals to abbreviate ate nto school t terms curtail school systems systems Lems and reduce either salaries or teaching staffs J J. J W W. Crabtree veteran secretary I of the organization says there have been too many 5 sUch ch developments but that we may well feel gratified with ith the larger view taken by the great majority of oC boards of education In the tho nation Tax dodgers dodgers' and tax objectors have been making life a burden for forthe forth forthe th the boards board Crabtree says But the boards generally have hae realized that It is as important to sustain school wages and salaries as any others aside de from the vital importance of at maintaining school efficiency and carrying out our duty to the children There Thele are teachers in the country teaching schoolchildren school schoolchildren schoolchildren children and their average a salary Is 18 1364 a year ear SOME STAFFS CUT Th re have been exceptions such as in Berkeley Mich where a teachIng teaching teach teach- ing staff of oC 57 W was S reduced to about 30 10 according to reports here The North Carolina legislature repealed a fundamental law for school tax money The tendency to increase th the size of oC classes is said bald to have been strong and even en in Washington D.C. D D. C. C a number of oC kindergarten t teachers teach teach- ach- ach ers era have been released Bank failures failures fail faU- ures have hit certain school systems seriously several se millions of school funds went for Instance ina in ina ina a bank failure at Asheville N. N C C. Teachers complain that Georgia owes her public schools nearly four tour millions of oC dollars In many Mississippi ippi counties teachers teach teach- teachers ers and superintendents have been unable to get their school warrants cashed The proposal 11 to reduce the length of the school term has as be been beena n nn a n popular one it has hIlS been proposed In North Carolina to cut it from eight six I. I months |
