ceiving due attention in all my public addresses.
The school's, without one exception, have been better
patronized than the previous year and a marked
progress toward permanency is observable in all of
them. The only drawback is the financial embarrass-
ment under which some of them are laboring yet.
There is one feature, however, to which I take the liber-
ty of calling the attention of the General Board for
the earliest possible consideration viz: The annual change
of Principals in many of our Church Schools, in con-
sequence of which such schools can never ^hope to^ emerge out
of the experimental stage and to reach a leading po-
sition ahead of the District Schools at least not to
a very pronounced degree. The main reason is the
comparatively poor salary, and the absence of any pro-
spective improvement in this regard, forcing us to
supply these schools every year or so with new be-
ginners, as their predecessors are compelled to seek
for better chances elsewhere. A proposition has
suggested itself to my mind which, if it can be car-
ried out, might circumvent this difficulty. I should
suggest an addition to any Principal's salary after five
years' service in one school, and so on after every five years
more until a stipulated maximum should be reached.
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ceiving our attention in all my public addresses.
The schools, with one exception, have been better
patronized than the previous year and a marked
progress toward permanency is observable in all of
them. The only drawback is the financial embarrass=
ment under which some of them are laboring yet.
There is one feature, however, to which I take the liber=
ty of calling the attention of the General Board for
the earliest possible consideration viz: The annual change
of Principals in many of our Church schools, in con=
sequence of which such schools can never hope to emerge out
of the experimental stage and to reach a leading po=
sition ahead of the District Schools at least not to
a very pronounced degree. The main reason is the
comparatively poor salary, and the absence of any pro=
spective improvement in this regard, forcing us to
supply these schools every year or so with new be=
ginners, as their predecessors are compelled to seek
for better chances elsewhere. A proposition has
suggested itself to my mind which, if it can be car=
ried out, might circumvent this difficulty. I should
suggest an addition to any Principal's salary after five
years' service in one school, and so on after every five years,
more until a stipulated maximum should be reached.
With kind regards,
Your brother in the Gospel,
Karl G. Maeser, Gen Supt