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I ;n0lSchool Board Members RefusewoCharging that grade school teachers j ^ have been the tools of radical politicians, members of the board of education at a meeting last night, lutorineda committee of citizens appointed at aimass meeting Tuesday night that theybaiskiha«withalt;IIrepthrda)Ft,repII A!eononMrrtetherantbachapftUW)redcutresipro1W«itmuhoccould give no answer or make no promise as to action they will take in re- | gard to the petitiou of class room teach- | era in the grade school for a $100 bonus each.In reply to the request of the committee that the board, the su|w*rinten-dent of school and the school supervisors be present at a mass meeting to- jnight in the First Baptist church and hear grievances of the teachers, C. S.Bankard, secretary, stated that it was The I “highly improbable’’ that any of the -old I or school executives ’.could bepresent.“No good can develop,’’ he said, ‘asthe meeting would only result in anexchange of personalities.”Represent ing the teachers at the meeting last night were Dr. S. X. Grantham, J. VV. Boyd, the Rev. G.W. Holmes, chairman of the muss meeting Tuesday uight, and Mrs. Thornton L. Brown. The committee was Instructed to ask the hoard whether It would grant the bonus reque»t, aud to urge the hoard members, superintendent and his supervisors to attend ihe meeting tonight. H• Xo Hasty Decision.O, P. M. Wiley, presideut of the t*ard, said the bonus request was too important a matter and entered too vitally into the school situation for the board to give a hasty deeision, and therefore the board could not give any aseniranee as to its future action.Mr. Boyd, after hearing the board's side of the question, in which they ssld 1 they had not denier! the teachers a bearing and were in fact not informed there was any discontent among the teachers, asserted the teacher* had been mislead.Wiley told Holmes It was unfortunate that he allowed himself to “get mixed up In the affair” without first investigating the chargee preferred by teachers.“The teacher* wanted a public hearing and I consented to act aa chairman, and I resent being called tba pi lot of the meeting,” replied Mr. Holme*.Bankard asserted reports of dison-tent among the teachers are exaggerated, and declared half of the teacher* who feigned the petition for a $100 bonus did not read the resol title n at I \ the head of the petition, which demand- j the ed an answer by March 22.“In due course of time this matterwill be adjusted,’* Bankard said. “Olioboard realize* the salaries are smalt,but an instructor with a county cer- R* tlficate cannot expect the pay a teach, j CC er with a normal diploma can command.”After the departure of the committee, the board went into executive session.Following the meeting, a member | vill promised aensational development af- J the ter the election, in which he aaid some exposure* would he made.A. H. Monteith, building and plumbing inspector, todry replied to a speech by J. W. Boyd before the hoard of education at a meeting last night.“I am one of two men to whom Boyd referred by implication as ‘a radical’.” Monteith declared, “and in reply to hischarges the public should know thatprior to Tuesday night, when the teachers’ movement was well under way,I never discussed «he wage matter wflhany teacher. Ho much for hi* charge of a radical plot”Among the grievances that mir he heard at tonight’s mass meeting in the First Baptist church, is that of L. T. Morgan, principal of Emerson school,who asserts hp was refused access to the records of the .Toplin board of education showing the distribution offund*. •Morgan says he a-ked Mrs. W. B.JFme and W. X. McDonald, members• of the board, if he might study th# t books dealing with the distribution of funds, jfxl that they both said they 1 “kuew no reason why he sbou’d not and referred him to C. R. Bankard, secretary of the hoard. Bankard flat- ! ly refused him the privilege, he iald.Morgan says be then went to Mr.Harris, who had directed him to m»# j the members of the board when he had fir«t ( this made his request about -eeing the thal or_ , books and that Harris, stated since [3(j J the books had been denied him by the1or lt;conbroif iIden l’ait|»KAnd /pur itai into it d y14tic*met1A 1outVala tithehoiIn*CeadkefthehotbuldoiIngcarsaftieseveexrAcallofgarwaiandrulitrusprA)••er-beor-tool-tiit-lokirk ry. cer tor he ag inthoard, he had nothing more to do with theby iral*chthe matter.Morgan declared he asked permission to examine the hooks as a result of hcariug Barkarl say at a meeting of the A. H. T. A. that the bonks are opento the public,Morgan also made written apple a- ! *tion to the board, and promised to k*ep i,,,flthe records confidential, he said.hopteiktheModern Trunk Factory, us w, 6th St. I ****I ’^antral” JIard Iron u Better.Flucom
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 26, 1920
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