Show REPLY TO CRITICS I OF SUPERVISION SUPERVISION I Supt i Christensen Warmly Defends Defends De De- fends the System in- in in I Vogue 1 p SAYS TEACHERS ARE AIDED I I ll of ir City Schools Declarer of ur Instructors Want Vinit More Not ot I i lon f j t I In 1 reply to lo the statements of oC several CIal school th they are arc being a p to death the tile system HYS- HYS tem tern now In ue In the public schools school Superintendent I. I O. O It 1 J twin twin- l am of oC tho the 8 schools and the uj t rendy In their of tin the 1 There Thelo may maybe I be tc lohi finder fault they but It Il Ms bu declared du ti Unit hut y ire re not a H ma majority JoH of the tho true horn rH In Salt It l hako L 1 A cr b Is fR u helper ui a- a t a l Ir Superintendent hint IU-It nIght Jehu In In the linos linoN for which they have lIao been cho en It In It their dU Y to aid iu the tho a jut much nit pos pos- Ibler not nut to o bo Le finding finding- null fault The Thc su- su are uro working UK iou for fori tho thu of oC the public schools us all n i ute ure the tho and u It II is hi a oily folly tu to u ny thy have been arou arousing lra L. L SI Jn l I on nr r. r Everyone one of the supervisors 1 ii vork work- In Ing to the hue limit hut but tile thc they lire are unable to to till fill the culls coining In lii ont tonally f for Cor or them w Q We jet get ct calls at tit various arlous In- In ab fro from III the hue different schools to Hl HUId iid d the luter around there here to I aid uld In tin till w work vork rJ Hut lint It Is till nh utter tin tin- r possibility for Cor or them Oto to make if rill lUI of or thoV the tho V culls To sa suy si- that thc they hey conic come too often r ami li tny too lOUr Is untrue In III the great groat f C majority maJor It of oC CI cases CIes es aR a as thc they lucy cati cah not nol MM nil nil the lie calls sent enl In And AndS a as S to tn the We meetings with supervisors for Cor or practical work the teachers letcher complain that thc they lucy urn not nol r of or f thus this a r t once Ins Instead of too loo much h Why teach teach- era have to 10 me by hy the scores p lately asking thi that t they bo ho given hl leMr les- les f r sons 8 lII more re often otten They Thy want that aid l hilt but con can not nol be given I cn the tho supervisor as HI HIort f ort n as thc they would like For Instance at It a meeting a short I rie ago ngo One ne of the lie l supervisors org was WUI arranging a n schedule with the teachers teachers- when wh Olto of oC them raised her hand and that the they lucy meet with 11 in each eue w we ck k Of course that was waH ImposIble sible Ible and u J It sa was 5 finally fixed for Cor or monthly month month- ly Jy I meetings We Ye try tr to have ha them moot men with the supervisors as often as tle tl ey l t sir MM I tt valued Instruction from fromI k I him but It Is 18 Impo Impossible J 1 1 the complaints of or these tea teachers hers Jn In regard to the l supervisor or system tire arc cr very unprofessional and I 1 do ilo hot deem cm It proper prop r lo to answer them It Jl Is a breach of or professional ethics and should not be recognized They bellevo what the tle they say NIlY but all alt the teachers know that my office Is open lit ill nil nU times time to them item and that I seek sug suggestions and criticisms of or this hum oar char acter No teacher ever cr came cane to my mimy ro room hl with n a complaint without being protected projected Why nearly every da day I ir Ve uve meetings 11 with teachers from rom differ different dif dif- fer ferent nt and these ver very subjects are ure up I 1 call them theil up and askI ask l I for meetings to post myself and keep In a closer r touch with lIh school mailers s. I MA to supervisor cr can not make maka a chun change oft teachers that thuat Is ridiculous The I. I board gives that l privilege Je to 10 me roe alone A supervisor may mn however recommend rc a u chan change chango o. o but Lint no acton Is taken until it itIs Is lIS In Investigated d liny un- Un tic n I Of ot co cout C r e there Is b the chance chanco that u It t supervisor will give lessons that arc ire hard This Is only natural but It is isa a remedied nu itS soon as 85 a fl teacher shows that l It Is more than she carr cart do Mr Wetzel or or- Mr Fairbanks nUL may give a alesson lot l lesson which he thinks Is vcr very simple being an expert but to lo the teacher It sometimes proves c too oo severe But there therein in la never a time that uch little tl ire arc not us as NOon oon area aro are a found Cound to be too difficult i It all aU depends upon the teacher said J T 1 O. O Cross principal of the tho Union school A itA work Is to aid all tho her that Hid Is being gl given n. n At Al our school lh the teachers want thep thet the tho t p ors more than thun the they como conic there Is IB no kicking about the thin number o 0 of- of times limes nor or th time the length lenith If IC time the teacher IK tK l feeling Cc nil all tho the time line that u n. sup supervisor up cornea comes to criticise and nd l fault faull It puts put her luer In a n belligerent attitude ami Iid she mike Is Very nervous nCr d during the classes But 1 If H teachers take the supervisor In time iho right lI light ht they will wilt be helped greatly b by thorn boom Supervisors are UC always alwag wel- wel come at ut the Union school |