Show I ARE THE SCHOOLS OVER SUPERVISED 1 Teachers Complain They Have No Chance to Show Originality CANT CAN'T KEEP UP THE PACE With So Many Iau Exacting Requirements It Is X Nm Next t l to 10 Impossible to 10 Meet All Are Arc tho the public schools of Salt Lake burdened with too much supervision That Is Js s what some somo of the t teachers uch rs a assert ert and antI those who are a willing tot to t talk isay ay y the tho dl dissatisfaction In tho t ranks I Is quite general Some of oC the i best teachers l It Is said ald arc are seeking other positions In consequence of the difficulty they have In meeting t the rt re requirements r of the many special su- su su u- u Naturally the teaches teachers make mace no open complaint because they know such complaint would be futile and might result In unpleasant ant conse consequences corise- corise to themselves But the feelIng feelIng feelIng feel- feel Ing Is pr present nt nevertheless alu and those oC of spirit and Independence find it jt irksome irk Irk- some ome to be bo constantly directed In this 0 or that school activity by some SI- SI special cial official whoso Interest t Is centered In hi his own department So many and so rigid are the Ilu Tl requirements requirement th the teachers say pay 1 that It I Is n next to Impossible Impo sible to 10 mt meet et them First of all th there r is City Superintendent Superintendent D D. II It Christensen who stands at It th the head of the city schools and anti who Is on the alert for Ideas that will Improve the HIP schools Then there Is 19 I Mr j Welch who exercises p-l p general supervision over the work o of the grammar grades grads Miss hiss II Rosalie Pol Pot Pollock lock Jock performs a n. similar office for th the primary grades s. s J J. J Leo 10 Fairbanks stands sponsor I for th the methods employed employed em em- In teaching drawing William A A. tells tho the teachers teacher's how to 10 Instruct the pupils In music There Is also a supervisor of oC phys physical I 1 culture culture culture cul cul- ture and a supt supervisor or of or manual trainIng trainIng train train- I Ing and arid a supervisor o of sewing and ancl when all of o these th sp dignitaries 04 are art busy bURY the principal 1 o of the tJI school chool takes a alook ar r look took around the building and tells the tho teachers where to h head ad In No Xo Chance for fm Orl Originality The net result of all this tho teachers teachers teachers teach teach- ers sa say Is that th they have no opportunity opportunity whatever for the display of or or- They rhey are mere cogs in a machine and they thy are sorely driven and In turn must drive their pupils to toe the mark st set s t by the originators originators tors of ideas Th They are ure not supposed to have ha an any ideas themselves they mour mournfully Cull assert and If IC one Is so 50 unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate un un- fortunate as to possess an aggressive lve individuality It must be submerged In order to maintain the uniformity of the sy system em e- e a I Wo Vo arc nrc supervised ll to death said rt t 1 Ji 92 one teacher who for tor obvious reasons would not let her name be used It Itis It ItIs is not at all unUsual In m my room to have havo visits from four supervisors In two days da That In itself would not be beso beso beso so bad if It the supervisors would take hold and conduct the classes and give r an nn object lesson in the wa way the work t I Rhou should d be done But Dut Instead of that It often otten happens that the supervisor I merely sits and looks on with a a. superior superior su su- perlor air making no comment but writing criticisms In a little book The effect Is to Irritate t the teachers teachers- and antI the pupils and put the whole hole room In Iii a state stale of ot unrest Goodness knows there Is li enough to todo todo too do doo o to o me meet t the problems that come como up Ii the pupils and seeing that P the they are kept at their work But when you ou add to this the necessity of ot p pleasing phasing six or pr seven exacting exacting- super super- OIS OI'S In as aN many many lines of work th the t teachers teacher's Job Is anything but a bed bedo o of roses roes Disturbs Disturb the line l Program ro Ium Just JUit about th the time the thc mornings morning's program gets started off of In goody good y shape comes a supervisor o or of music or of or drawing or may be ol or The supervisor or Is a busy per per- spa and of course C cannot be expected s to wait wall until the regular class claNs hour for his 1118 work So everything else must b OL be dropped while the pupils get a n little lItte Specially tra trained Instruction In iri music or drawing or or ai sewing Then the supervisor supervisor su su- hurries on his wa way and ond the try to settle llie back Into the regu regu- Ur lur schedule again And Anti Just about abou the time lime this Is IR accomplished he here her herec c comes another supervisor and all I is In confusion lon once more D By the time Urn this has happened three e or four times time In In a aday da day there Is nut not much left lert of f th the orderly program with which the da day J began Pro Probably abl the har hardest est supervision to adjust ourselves to is that In to ph phy- phy ideal culture The fhe supervisor In th this branch demands twenty-ono twenty minutes minute dally There are three thre two minute i drills and then fifteen minutes s of ph- ph steal culture work It Is all oil very we well wh when m a teacher has charge of a half halt grade for tor instance but when one one has a whole grade or two classes combined it becomes simply Impossible to get gd In that fifteen minutes min mm- utes of or wor work without dispensing dispensing- altogether alto alto- 1 altogether to- to gether with other classes And Ant If the time Is cut down when the supervisor happens around there Is trouble The drawing supervisor demands ninety minutes each week lek sewing tal takes es an anI I hour a a 30 wc week k and music twenty minutes minutes minutes min min- utes dally daily Too Many Inn Meetings t Another thing the thu teachers object to in this connection is that they are arc obliged to meet three times a week to get Ideas from the supervisors Tho The regular weekly teach teachers teachers' r meetings when they meet with tho the principals and exchange ideas Is regarded an as beneficial but three meetings In addition addi addi- addition tion t td this the tho teachers declare Is coming rather strong Superintendent Christensen in his I- I g general instructions to supervisors starts with this Injunction You cannot can cannot cannot not visit too frequently or too long for tor the good of the thc school If the teacher could revise this instruction they would have the visits less es 4 Ire fre frequent reo- reo I quent ent and le less long long- |