Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1912 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...of the first semester, which opens in February, we will have to employ others. That only emphasizes what I say takes place in Washington in September, and which is not an index to the population. Mr. Taylor. I think the committee thoroughly understands that your schools are peculiar and that September is not the month by which to gauge your school population. Mr. Gardner. Do you estimate for teachers on the maximum number of pupils? Mr. Stuart. I estimate the largest number of pupils we are likely to handle, just as a street railway company provides for rush hours. We would all be mad if they did not. Mr. Taylor. In the paragraph "Teachers in Group A of class 6" there is the language "including two principals of grade manual training schools in italics. What is that item? Mr. Stuart. Under that heading we asked for 17 teachers, for, as I said, the growth is largely in the high schools. In all our 4 white high schools we asked for 9 principals and in the colored schools for 3, and in the normal school 1, and we wanted 2 manual-training people to take care of the trade work that we hoped to do. Mr. Taylor. This is 2 principals on top of that? Mr. Stuart. This is not all; no. Really, you ought to do better than that. You cut us from 17 to 6, which will cripple the high schools. The commissioners have kindly reported 2 principals of grade manual-training schools. We hope to do some trade work if that remains. We should have more than 4 high-school teachers. They have cut the teachers $24,000. Twenty-four thousand dollars is not a large amount and if we could get back a part of that I think we would be very comfortable and be able to take care of the things I have described. We asked for 10 additional teachers of class 4 and we have gotten 4. That...