Show AN ELEMENT OF efficiency L 13 eggerston supt bupt provo prove schools efficiency we want but let us be careful that we efficiency woi noi jr ir efficiency to the point A resignation front from one of the most efficient grammar grade teachers in this state was handed in ill the other day chis teacher according to a the requirements of 0 the state had completed the elementary schools lour four years higa schoot school and ani two a years college in order to secure a position in tile the schools of utah a position which paid lum lim the magnificent suni sum of GO CO dollars a month or dollars a year the reasons submitted or the resignation were these while I 1 am a married nian man lave my work appreciate my associates I 1 simply cannot canna live and support my family in a respectable way nay on my salary I 1 was offered three months ago a position at z hu dollars a month the year round as soon as I 1 could take charge of ordinary business bookkeeping it has taken me three months in extension work to finish that course ovin biving to my previous education e I uca tion I 1 arn am loitered the job the beginning ot of next month this post position will afford promotions according to my efficiency and you know superintendent erin efficiency effi clency does not count for much in salary schedules tor for t teachers ach it is generally a raise for all it if any is made it seems to me that right here is s the crux of at least a big phase of a 0 ar r present problem when three moriis mor lis 0 t f study will give a person a ninety I 1 ollar job when carpenters are ger ge ing eight dollars a day when ri riveter working for uncle oam am get nii nuy ay iy dollars a week when masons barbers farmers clerks bookkeepers eri stenographers are getting fitly fifty I per ier er cent more than teachers what can we expect in efficiency and stability irani the teachers work ork the following is quoted from tho sat at est cst N E A bulletin school teachers pay was vas more than twenty five per cent toof too lou lo 10 before the rapid advance in the cost of living it is more than fit bilty ty per cent too low at the present time thousands rhou sands of our strongest grammar grade teachers are resigning every month to accept positions in other lines of at work they regret to leave leach teaching in but they say they cannot live ud id u d care for those dependent upon them on the salaries paid by the public schools As a result schools are about to loss lose in efficiency teachers who lack ii hl ubil ily fly or possess weak personalities remain in the schools teachers alij ali board at home can afford to their places as long as they are largely supported by their barnts pari parn ants ts la lai I 1 therefore ask who is going to devote himself permanently to the pursuit or of effic efficiency ency in school teaching with but little for a brighter day to quote again from the editorials in ill papers of tile the united states it is id reco 7 the work of school school teachers la is more inore important than the work of any other public servant there is need tor for better recognition ct cf the talent and effort of the teachers and better facilities tor for their training this Is the general at ade it is a truism and yet what are we doing to efficiently accomplish it ltv do the people want efficient eff clent teachers to mould the lives of their children during the formative periods they answer yes thep demand it then the people must pay tor for it it if a railroad wants efficiency it pays for efficiency does a patient want efficient service the patient must pay tor for it does a vast industrial concern want efficient legal counsel it must pay tor for it does the dechant want efficient salesmen the merchant must pay for them society is bidding and bidding high tor for the services of experts and Is there needed anywhere greater experts ahari than in the teaching profession we aro are demanding efficiency today ot of our school teachers taking into consideration the tact fact that it has and always will have art an economic basis bails if all teachers were idealists Idea lists in the purest sense perhaps they would lose themselves as is so BO often recommended in ill their work nork gut but let us its look at tile tho bald tact fact we are not all ideal ests A lot let of us want the economic things in life with our more materialistic brethren it is an ai 1 1 to theorize it is a splendid thing t to 0 prom ilse us the rewards of oc our labors labor payable in another sphere but e average teacher who will after all be called upon to solve this problem is the one ane we ne must consider if we e want stability in ie e teach teaching ing profession it if we want men who are not using the teaching profession as a stepping stone to something blighe instead of human butterflies who flit from one place to another and never settle into a permanent status of pro tessla tensional tess ional nal efficiency as an in leaching requires requIre 3 a salary common with the efficiency demanded by tile the public and by school author tl ties es ls Is the teacher a different kind of human hath not a teacher eyes hath not a teacher hands organs dl Men mansions senses affections passions fed with the same food hurt with the same weapons subject to the same diseases healed by the same means warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as other people are if you tickle us do we laugh it if you poison us do we not die and it if we are wronged shall we not speak we must remember that efficiency em clency and skill come through competition competition comes only when prizes attract men and women of ability the sadness of it all is that the teacher has never asserted the dignity of its his position ile he passes as a learn individual ed eil with fill the power to et ec tract from ether food clothing ru torno to mobiles biles homes etc in closing let me say that teachers must speak they must as ase bert 1 hem selves the leading educators of t the state who continually raise the re quire ments of af teachers for must also rale raise their voices ut our fair state so that there wilt will le 1 e one tax upon the states resources for school purposes and thil that tax tat sal lc bently large arge to fulfill the denial led there is need fici 0 o better lio iter of the talent and efforts of the teachers when this is done the acl chool ool authorities ma ina laise tile lne standards for efficient hii k educational review |