Town annual report of Saugus 1938, Part 8

Author: Saugus (Mass.)
Publication date: 1938
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 284

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In 1941-the construction of a four-room addition to the present Ballard School, as suggested earlier in this report.

In 1945-the construction of a four-room addition to the present Sweetser School, as

suggested earlier in this report.

In 1948-the construction of a six-room addition to the present Armitage School, as suggested earlier in this report.

The completion of this building program will permit the abandon- ment of three of the present old and inefficient elementary school buildings and will eventually effect an appreciable saving in the cost of elementary education. It will also make possible the adoption of recommendations as outlined in other sections of this report.

Lunchroom Survey

The school lunch system at the High School was inspected and a survey made by Miss Dorothy Frank, Nutritionist, Division of Hy-

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giene, Department Public Health. This service was most graciously given and we recommend that fur- ther use be made of this depart- ment by the School Department and cafeteria managers, as the Depart- ment of Public Health throughout the year offers consultation service on practical cafeteria operation, menu-planning, buying, etc.

For the past three years the De- partment of Public Health has co- operated with the Department of Education in a week's conference for trained and untrained lunch- room managers held at Fitchburg State Teachers College in July. Mrs. Hammond seems to be doing such a good job on management of the Cafeteria that we feel sure she sees the importance of the cafeteria as a teaching center for the building of good eating habits and will con- tinue to make the gradual, steady improvement that is to be desired. Therefore, we recommend the School Committee finance the week's conference (board and room $9.00-tuition no charge) which will probably be held again next summer and where practical help on pertinent problems may be ob- tained. We feel the school cafeteria should be given its proper place among the educational services to be rendered to children. Teachers of science, health, education and social studies should co-operate in help- ing children to select better lunches.

We are listing Miss Frank's sur- vey report in condensed form amplifying points to be commended and points for improvement.

Commendable Points :- Kitchen and equipment clean. Workers neat and clean about personal appearance.

Lunchroom manager and as- sistant seemed enthusiastic, conscientious and intelligent. Reasonable length of time for lunch period.

Realization by school principal of lunchroom short-comings and desire for improvement. Obvious ability of manager which could produce fine re- sults directed differently. Suggested Physical Improve-

ments :-

Suggested Physical Improve- ments :-

Chairs for all.

Trays for all. Tables clean between lunch periods.

Bubbler outside lunchroom in working order.

Hand washing facilities near lunchroom available to the pupils.

Lunchroom decorations (cur- tains, variety of posters). Paper napkins at counter.

Regulation of line so that few- er are before the counter at onetime.

Menu board at entrance to the lunch counter or in hall out- side.

Use of spoons instead of hands for serving by student help- ers.

Wax paper bags for sand- wiches.

Elimination of "Street Ven- dor" problem.

Provision for class rooms in which those pupils now eat- ing in the basement may eat their lunch under the super- vision of a teacher.

Suggested Improvements as

Health Teaching Points :- Reduction of variety of candy (three or four kinds suf- ficient) and rich desserts- more fruits-bananas and apples and milk puddings.

Omission of tonic from cafe- teria to increase sales of liquid milk. Sales of milk and the more healthful foods can also be promoted by counter arrangement with milk in first place, hot dishes second, salads and sandwiches third, fruit fourth and lastly candy as extra sweet.

More dark bread for sand- wiches-use of one slice of dark and one white, or use of dark with favorite sand- wich fillings, or giving one- half slice with the hot dish helps.

Frankfurts may be served less frequently and then when

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they are served on a "plate lunch" with vegetable salad or cold slaw or sliced toma- toes, etc.

Food should be baked rather than fried, as the pupils are probably having plenty of fried foods at home.

Education of pupils to selec- tion of salads by frequently changed poster displays and feature of "bargain specials" which include hot dish, salad and dessert.

Low cost of combination lunches or "bargain specials" by use of "most for money in food value" foods.

Smaller menu to avoid confu- sion in selection.

Sweetser School (Junior High)

The condition at the Sweetser School should receive early atten- tion. At present there is no oppor- tunity for a hot lunch or a hot sup- plement to the lunches brought from home. Space being used for non-school purposes should be re- linquished and the room equipped for lunch purposes. There is not sufficient time for the majority to go home to a hot lunch and the only available space for the chil- dren is in the assembly hall.

Employing, Training and Paying of Teachers

Teachers should be employed to teach the subjects in which they majored when preparing for their profession.

In the future teachers for the Senior and Junior High Schools should be generally selected from those who are not graduates of the Saugus High School and that pol- icy continued until the number of Saugus High School graduates on our faculty does not exceed thirty- three and a third per cent of the number of teachers in these schools.

Engaging teachers to teach in the same high school from which they graduated, to teach pupils who are their neighbors and who often best know their teachers by their first name, whose high school

experience was not substantially different from that of their pupils is a process of inbreeding that is detrimental to the future of the school system. We should have on our High School faculty more teachers who have lived in other environments, with different life experiences, and educational train- ing and not only from other Massa- chusetts communities but from other sections of the country. Such only can provide the needed vitality and vision required for a progres- sive teaching staff.

Qualifications of New Teachers

Character, health, personality, scholarship, leadership, ability, common sense.

Two years' teaching experience. Elementary Schools :- Graduate of a teachers' college or its equivalent.

Junior High School :- Teachers' college degree.

Senior High School:

Degree from an approved col- lege, university, or teachers' college requiring four years for a bachelor's degree. Com- pletion of a required number of courses designed to pre- pare one for the teaching profession.

No candidate shall be considered eligible for a regular teaching posi- tion who has not had at least two full years of regular teaching experience in a recognized school system under competent super- vision. In the application of this rule, irregular substitute teaching shall not be considered in comput- ing experience.

A schedule of Teachers' Salaries shall be :-

a. Clearly stated so all con- concerned can easly under- stand it. b. Within the ability of the tax payers to pay.

c. Fair with equal pay for equal service to all in the same school division. (Ele- mentary, Junior High School,

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Senior High School.) There should be no salary distinc- tion on account of sex or age.

d. Provide incentives for the teachers to improve their professional standing and increase their salaries.

e. Consistently followed by the School Committe.

Teachers' salaries should be based upon:

Professional training. Length of service. Teaching skill.

Proposed Salary Schedule

1938

Minimum

Increase

Maximum .

Succesful completion of a :-

Two-year course in Normal School or the equivalent

$ 950

$50

$1450

Three years

$1050

$50

$1550

Four years-four years of college

work with a standard Bachel-

ors' degree or equivalent

$1150

$50

$1650

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Succesful completion of a :-

Two-year course in Normal School

or the equivalent

$ 950

$50

$1500

Three year course in Normal School or the equivalent

$1050

$50

$1600

Four Years, Bachelors' degree

$1150

$50

$1900

Five years, Masters' degree

$1300

$50

$2100

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Succesful completion of a :-

Four-year course in College with a

standard Bachelors' degree or the equivalent

$1300

$50

$2000

Five years, Masters' degree or two

Bachelors' degrees

$1400

$50

$2200

Six years, Doctors' degree or two Masters' degrees

$1800

$50

$2400

PROPOSED SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SALARIES

Present Salary

1938 Proposed Salary

Present Maximum

Proposed Maximum

Walter D. Blossom, B.S.

$1800

$1850

$2000

Paul Bund

$2000

Earl Chadsey, B.S.

$1400

$1450

$2000

Ashton Davis, A.B.

$1950

$2000

Dorothy Eyre, A.B., A.M.

$1650

$1700

$1650

$2200

*John R. Gifford, B.S.

$1900/100

$1950

$2000

Harold Haley, B.S.

$1850

$1900

$2000

Charles W. Harvey, Ph.B.

$2400

Special-

$2400

*Bernice L. Hayward,

A.B., A.M.

$1500/150 $1650

$1650

$2200

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M. Edward Hayes,

B.S., L.L.B.

$1950

$2000

$2200

Rita A. Lavin, A.B.

$1300

$1350

$1650

$2000

John B. Leahy, A.B.

$1850

$1900

$2000

*Welcome W. Mccullough, A.B.

$1900/100

$1950

$2000

John A. MacVivar, A.B.

$1450

$1500

$2000

*Hazel C. Marison

$1650/150

$1650

*Ruth Motherwell,

A.B., A.M.

$1600/150

$1700

$1650

$2200

Abraham Pinciss, A.B., M.B.A.

$1800

$1850

$2000

$2200

Harry Potts, A.B., B.D.

$1750

$1800

$2000

$2200

Albion R. Rice, B.S.

$2000

Ivaloo Small, A.B.

$1100

$1150

$1650

$2000

Effie Stanhope,

A.B., M.S., A.M.

$1650

$1800

$1650

$2400

John A. Taylor, B.B.A.

$1750

$1800

$2000

Helen F. Towle, A.B.

$1650

$1700

$1650

$2000

Harold H. Warren, B.S.

$1900

$1950

$2000

*Elmer Watson, B.S., A.M.

$2000/100

$2050

$2000

$2200

Mabel C. Willey, R. N.

$1650

$1700

$1650

$2000

Alice M. Willis, A.B.

$1650

$1700

$1650

$2000

Barbara Wright, A.B.

$1200

$1250

$1650

$2000

M. Blanche Milbery

$1650

*Head of department and receiving extra pay.

Heads of departments in Senior High School to receive $100.00 in addition to their salaries as teachers. The selection of heads of depart- ments should be by competitive examination and from the open field.

The proposed schedule would increase the salaries of all the teach- ers in Senior High School $50.00 this year excepting: Four that have already reached their maximum.

One that will receive $150.00, because she is entitled to be in a higher salary class.

PROPOSED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SALARIES

1938

Present Salary

Proposed Salary

Present Maximum

Proposed Maximum

Beatrice, Armstrong, 4

$1500

$1550

$1500

$1900

Victoria Borys, 4

$1050

$1100

$1500

$1900

Bernice A. Dahlen, 4

$1100

$1150

$1500

$1900

Gladys Fox, 3

$1450

$1500

$1600

Bernard A. Friberg.

$1750

$1800

$1900

Emma Hughes, 2

$1500

Bertha F. Morrison, 4

1400

$1450

$1500

$1900

Echless Nay, 2

$1500

Elizabeth Nelson, 2

$1500

Mabel Nelson, 2

$1500

M. Pearl Peterson, 2

$1500

Mae G. Priest, 3

$1300

$1350

$1500

$1600

Elizabeth B. Taylor

$1500

Gwendolyn Walters, 3

1500

$1550

$1500

$1600

*Vera Wentworth, 2

$1600

$1650

$1600

$1650

Mildred Willard, 2

$1500

*Principal, Sweetser Junior High School.

The proposed schedule would increase the salaries of all the teach- ers in the Junior High School $50.00 this year excepting:

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Nine that have already reached their maximum.

PROPOSED SALARIES FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS 1938 Present Salary Proposed Salary

Present Maximum

Proposed Maximum

For Principals of Cliftondale,

Emerson, Lynnhurst, Mans-

field, No. Saugus, and Oak- landvale

$1500

$1550

$1500

$1600

For Principals of Felton and

$1550

$1600

$1550

$1650.

For Principals of the Bal- lard School, Sweetser Junior

High School, Roby School $1600

$1650

$1700

Lilla Quint, 2, Armitage

$1550

$1600

$1550

$1650

Marjorie Wiggin, 2, Ballard

$1600

$1650

$1700

Myra Beckman, 2, Cliftondale $1500

$1550

$1500

$1600

Florence Gibson, 2, Felton

$1550

$1600

$1550

$1650

Mary Bridgham, 2, Lynnhurst $1525

$1575

$1500

$1600

Alice Seaver, 2, Mansfield

$1550

$1600

$1500

$1600

Sarah Curtis, 2, No. Saugus $1525

$1575

$1500

$1600

Elsie Foster, 2, Oaklandvale $1525

$1575

$1500

$1600

Pauline Peckham, 3, Roby

$1600

$1650

$1700

PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SALARIES

Present Salary

1938 Proposed Salary

Present Maximum

Proposed Maximum

Mary Fenna, 2

$1000

$1050

$1400

$1450

Dorothy Chatterton, 4

$1150

$1200

$1400

$1650

Mary Lavin, 3

$ 950

$1050

$1400

$1550

Elizabeth Curtis, 4

$4. a day

$1150

$1400

$1650

May Walsh, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Josephine Chadbourne, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Ella Bailey, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Florence Evans, 2

$1300

$1350

$1400

$1450

Helen Long, 3

$ 950

$1050

$1400

$1550

Mary Wood, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Josephine Ready, 3

$1100

$1150

$1400

$1550

Janet Tarbox, 3

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1550

Florence Stone, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450.

Marleah Graves, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Constance Putnam, 3

$1300

$1350

$1400

$1550

Edith Russell, 3

$1300

$1350

$1400

$1550

Evelyn Fenna, 2

$1250

$1300

$1400

$1450

Margaret Chase, 3

$1150

$1200

$1400

$1550

Charlotte Laurence, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Esther McCarrier, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Virginia Nason, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Elizabeth Roffey, 3

$ 950

$1050

$1400

$1550

Florence Sullivan, 3

$1000

$1050

$1400

$1550

Hazel Lindsey, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Marah Stebbins, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450.

Demaris Lewis, 3

$ 950

$1050

$1400

$1550

Catherine Casey, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Julia Nourse, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Leora Tomlinson, 2, Emerson $1500

$1550

$1500

$1600

Armitage Schools

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Helen Leyland, 4

$4. a day

$1150

$1400

$1650

Rosa Bannon, 3

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1550

Ruth Emery, 2 Eunice Shea, 3

$1300

$1350

$1400

$1450

$1100

$1150

$1400

$1550

Evelyn Ward, 2

$1150

$1200

$1400

$1450

Marguerite Shannon, 4

$ 950

$1150

$1400

$1650

Delta Chapman, 2

$1000

$1050

$1400

$1550

*Mittie Smith, 2

$1500

Mary Mullins, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Ruth Douglas, 2

$1400

$1450

$1400

$1450

Catherine Griffin, 3

$1500

$1550

$1400

$1550

Elizabeth Goss, 4

$1500

$1550

$1400

$1650

*Anstrice Kellogg, 4

$2000

*Present salary above proposed schedule.

PROPOSED SALARIES, DOUBLE GRADES, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

1938

Present Salary

Proposed Salary

Present Maximum

Proposed Maximum

Marie Reynolds, 2

$1450

$1500

$1450

$1500

Marion Wells, 3

$1100

$1150

$1450

$1600

Vivian Smith, 2

$1450

$1500

$1450

$1500

Vida Norton, 2

$1450

$1500

$1450

$1500

Pearl Belonga, 2

$1300

$1350

$1450

$1500

Muriel Coy, 3

$1000

$1100

$1450

$1600

Ethel Dorr, 2

$1400

$1450

$1500

Arlene Packard, 4

$1400

$1450

$1700

Marion Spofford, 3

$1150

$1200

$1450

$1600

Teachers who have reached their present maximum should obtain a higher salary upon the completion of the necessary training to quali- fy them for a rating in a higher grade.

Super maximum salaries should be discontinued.

Annual Increases

In view of the present financial condition of our Town, the annual increase in salaries granted to teachers who are now below maxi- mum should not exceed $50.00 per year for the next two years.

In 1940 this matter should be re- considered and the increase raised if within the ability of the citizens to pay an increase. -

Football Coaches

The School Department employs a teacher to coach the football and basketball squads in addition to

teaching a subject in the curricu- lum.

The salary of the present coach, if based solely upon his services as a teacher according to the proposed schedule would be $1350.00.

He now receives $2400.00 as teacher-coach. The difference be- tween $2400.00 and $1350.00, amounting to $1050.00, is what he receives for coaching two groups of physically fit boys, football and basketball, which are a very small percentage of the student body.

If the teacher-cocah is to receive an addition to his present salary, the additional pay should be taken from the Athletic Association re- ceipts.

The amount of salary paid for coaching football is out of propor- tion to that paid other teachers for extra curricula activities.

Standards of teaching skill should be established, and the School Committee insist that such

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standard be maintained by all teachers.

Teachers should be rated annual- ly according to their teaching skill, and no increase in salary granted to teachers who if they are rated on the basis of A, B, C, D, are below B; if rated on the basis of Excel- lent, Good, Fair, Poor, are rated below Good; or if rated on a numer- ical basis are below 75 per cent.

Teachers who for two consecutive years are rated C or its equivalent, and who in the judgment of the Superintendent are not likely to rise above that grade, should not be retained on the teaching staff.

The rating of teachers in the Senior and Junior High Schools to be compiled by the Superintendent of Schools, Principal of the High School or Principal of the Junior High School, and a representative of the State Department of Educa- tion.

Teachers' ratings should be made known to teachers upon request and also to future investigating com- mittees.

In our endeavor to investigate the quality of teaching, we request- ed the School Committee to furnish us with the individual ratings of the present teaching staff. This in- formation was refused.

In order to do justice to the older teacher whose preparatory training was before the acceptance of this salary schedule and not up to the present requirements for

new teachers, service credits will be given on the basis of two credits for each year of teaching and thirty credits to be the equivalent of one full year of college training.

Salaries now below proposed minimum to be moved to minimum on schedule.

Equivalents to Degrees

Equivalent to a Bachelor's or Master's degree may be established by the Superintendent. Graduate work in a recognized college or uni- versity, credit for service prior to September 1, 1937, extended train- ing in a special field, publishing articles, writing books on educa- tional subjects, or foreign travel may be counted in making up equivalents to college degrees in

accordance with the regulations of these schedules.

Extra-Curricular Activities

In addition to teaching and supervision, each teacher should be. subject to assignment by the Prin- cipal to responsibility for a portion of the miscellaneous services and activities of the school. The direc- tion of and the participation in the various extra-curricular activities of the school are considered as much a part of the teacher's normal load as actual classroom teaching.

There should be frequent meet- ings of principal, sub-master, and teacher to correlate extra-curricu- lar activities and plan new ven- tures.

We believe the Treasurer of the Athletic Association and other members of the faculty who act as treasurers of other extra-curricular activities where the funds amount to more than $100.00 should be bonded. This would be in accord- ance with good business practice.

Teacher Training

A. The Superintendent to ar- range University Extension courses in practical subjects such as class- room methods to be conducted in a school building during the school year.

One for teachers in Junior and Senior High Schools.

One for teachers in Elementary Grades.

And attendance of all- teachers required, and expense of lectures: paid by teachers.

B. Group round table discus- sions conducted every two months: for review of educational literature, lectures, and teaching methods. The Committee commends the start that has been made with teacher con- ferences.

C. School Department to sub- scribe for leading educational magazines to be filed in school li- brary and available for teachers' use. Steps should be taken to build up a library of professional books to be divided and kept in the classrooms.

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D. The School Department to arrange two visiting days each year -one in the fall and one in the spring-for teachers to visit and observe teaching as carried on in other schools.

We believe the Superintendent of Schools, Principals, Sub-master of the High School, and heads of departments should attend a sum- mer school at least every three years, and the degrees earned by these leaders be equal to those of the best prepared teachers under their supervision.

Curriculum

The Committee appointed by the Town Meeting of 1924 to investi- gate the schools and school system made recommendations in the form of nine articles in the Warrant of the Town Meeting of 1925. Five of these related to the disposition of the Lincoln School, and as a re- sult of their recommendations the present Sweetser School was con- structed. The other four related to matters of Curriculum in the schools and were briefly as fol- lows: Twelve asked the abolition of the Manual Training Depart- ment of the Saugus school system. This was done; (2) Article 13 asked the abolition of the Domestic Science Department, with the ex- ception of teaching of sewing in Grades 8 and 9. This was done; (3) Article 14 recommended the in- stallation of the so-called Franklin Drawing Course in the school sys- tem. This was not done. (4) Art- icle 15 asked the abolition of the Junior High School system and the substitution of an elementary grade system of eight grades and a high school system of 4 grades (com- monly known as the 8-4 system). This was defeated.

These recommendations of the 1924 School Investigating Commit- tee are cited not as a matter of ancient town history, but as signifi- cant in our approach to the present school situation. Curriculum ques- tions are paramount then as now.

What subjects are our school chil- dren being taught? A little of everything? The 1924 Investigat- ing Committee thought so and therefore recommended the aboli-

tion of Manual Training and Do- mestic Science Courses. Is it so to- day? Is the teaching material standardized so that each pupil is learning an amount corresponding to a pupil in a similar course in the system-or a similar grade in another school system? The 1924 Investigating Committee felt there was a need of standardization and co-ordination, especially in draw- ing, and so recommended. Is there such a need today ? Most serious of all, is the Junior High School fulfilling its purposes today? Are the courses in the High School pre- paring the students for life-in col- lege-in business-in trade-in cit- izenship? These questions need constantly to be asked in every community. They need to be asked in Saugus today.

Is the Junior High School fulfill- ing its purposes in Saugus? The Junior High School was originally intended to do certain specific things in education. It began as a democratic movement to supplant a restricted curriculum designed for the privileged few with a more va- ried curriculum designed for the many. It was planned to make the transition from the Elementary School to the High School less abrupt. Every incentive and en- couragement was to be given to the pupil to continue his or her educa- tion. The old traditional courses were to be enriched in contents, and pupils were to be given oppor- tunity to find their vocation by exploratory or try-out courses and by educational guidance.

The 1924 Investigating Commit- tee felt that the Saugus High School was not fulfilling these and therefore recommended the aboli- tion of the system and the return . to the traditional elementary sys- tem and the fundamental courses.

The present Investigating Com- mittee is not of the opinion that the Junior High School system should be abolished. Improvements have been made, others are contemplated where increased facilities and funds are made available, and there is an awareness among officials of de- ficiencies in the present set-up. But the Investigating Committee does feel that much can be done im-

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mediately and over a long-time period to help the Junior High School system fulfill its purpose in Saugus.

The present Junior High School program of studies consists of four required subjects in two grades as follows:

(1) Grade VII: English, Mathe- matics, Geography and Literature.

(2) . VIII: English, History, Mathematics and Literature.

In addition, there is some work in Physical Education and Drawing.

It will be seen that the criticism of the former Investigating Com- mittee that too many subjects of a miscellaneous nature were being taught no longer is true. If any- thing, the curriculum needs en- richment.

Before dealing with this spe- cifically, we refer to recommenda- tions which are dependent upon a long term building program dealt with in another section of the re- port.

First: The Junior High School should be housed (a) in a single building-not in two buildings as at present, (viz: Central Junior High School and Sweetser Junior High School); (b) in a building separate from the Senior High School.

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Town annual report of Saugus 1938, Part 8

Author: Saugus (Mass.) Publication date: 1938 Publisher: The Town Number of Pages: 284

Author: Saugus (Mass.)
Publication date: 1938
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 284