Show salaries Sala of school teachers one often hears in utah that school teachers are underpaid considering si the expensive ad education lic tion they hey must acquire to be qualified to teach each we a are told the salaries are far ar betow below ft hat should be a just wage there areta are T Q sides to the question it cannot be denied that sup ply and demand is a R determining de factor our educational system provides provided excellent mental equipment if fo fill lowed and all necessary to acquire it are parents able to foot the bills while it is 3 being done does the education itself is practically free the result has been that persons graduating from high school a or t the h pre preparatory schools and colleges that follow have in an extraordinarily large number lumber of cases decided that the best beat field for foi their labor was to teach school our educational system fitted them for the first of all to the teaching profession our educational system has been as a sort of vocational institution the result resul t has b bean see a larger supply of teachers than the demand called for and when the supply of an article is great the price is low school trustees invariably have taken advantage of the situation they paid more because they think it was necessary teachers m will IR say that there isalt much morality about such a proceeding but it is the same system that everyone must contend with the way to raise the salaries of teachers very quickly la is to curtail the supply but that is manifestly impossible the next method is for those with good educations to seek other lines of employment though it may be necessary to study baudy a little longer |