Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — HOLD BACK TEACHERS' PAY [ARTICLE]

HOLD BACK TEACHERS' PAY

Jaatructom Are to Be Required to Make t'p lx*t Time. L N. Hine*, state superintendent of public instruction, has advised township trustees to withhold pay from school teachers who now refuse to teach school extra days In order to make up time lost When th< schools were closed on account of the influenza-pneumonia epidemic last winter. The attorney-general, the state board of accounts and the state superintendent’s office some time ago agreed that the teachers should make up the time lost or as much of it as possible, the exact time to be made up to be dependent on the judgment of the township trustees. At that time the controversy was believed closed. However, the approaching end of the school year has revived discussion of the situation. The teachers received pay. according to law, for the time lost. The law on whether they may be forced to make up the lost time, however, is somewhat obscure, it is said. The official, however, agreed that the teachers should be required to make up the time out of justice and equity. If the pay of objecting teachers is held up by the township trustees it will throw on the teachers the burden of showing that they are entitled to pay for which they gave the schools no services.