Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1927 — Page 2

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‘TENURE LAW’ FOR TEACHERS UNDERATTACK Life Terms for Instructors Endangers School System, Says C. W. Pierce. “The teacher tenure law paves the way for a trustee to become dishonest and to show favoritism. It leaves the way open and invites an attempt by teachers to seek employment by graft and unfair means and will bring on a corrupt practice in our school system.” This was one of the verbal broadsides fired at the law passed by the last Legislature and at its makers by Charles W. Pierce, of Hartford City, Ind., a township trustee and Democrat, addressing the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees at the Claypool Wednesday. The law gives life tenure to teachers who have taught five consecutive terms in the same corporation or township and provides teachers cannot be dismissed without due cause and a hearing. Called “Misleading Star” "This law,” Pierce declared, "is a twinkling, misleading and misguiding star to officials who unthoughtedly will contract with a teacher who has taught the required number of terms thereby endowing them with life employment in one school corporation or township. “The teacher tenure law makes it possible, during the term of the present trustees, to create life tenures enough to fill practically every school room in bur State, so long as the present teachers live and desire to teach.” This situation, he asserted, destroys the incentive for high school boys and girls to enter the teaching profession and encouraged teachers “to become careless, negligent or dilatory” and to “cease preparation, stop their advancement and become sb gish, inactive, indisposed and unsatisfactory.” Endangers “Free Schools” Pierce said the law was a step toward “centralization of our school system,” endangering the “free school system.” He urged trustees to help nominate and elect “members to the next General Assembly who are known to be absolutely in favor of the repeal of the teacher tenure law.” Otto Jensen of Arcadia w r as elected association president to succeed M. S. Caldwell of South Bend. Perry Rule of Carroll County was elected vice president and Edward Hoffman of Vigo county secretary treasurer The convention adjourned at noon today. Finds Snake in Winter Du Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Dec. 15.—William Anderson found a live snake thirty-one inches in length hanging on a briar at his home in Cortland, and called attention to the find being considered by some persons as a sign of an open winter.

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STEVE IS BACK IN CELL AFTER STORYTO JURY Probers Ponder Evidence by Ex-Dragon in Quiz of Four Hours. Marion County grand jurors today considered statements of D. C. Stephenson, former Klan grand dragon, who testified almost four hours on Wednesday. When the session opened this morning no witnesses had been called. It was understood several were to be summoned In the next few days. Stephenson left his cell at the Michigan City prison at 7 a. m. Wednesday and returned to it at 10 p. m. He started talking o the jury at 1 p. m. and left at 4:45 p. m. Stephenson told the jurors little of any importance relative to the clean-up of the political probe, it war believed. While Stephenson was in the jury room Lloyd O. Hill, his attorney, also was called. Efforts were made to recall Hill, but he could not be located.

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