Minneapolis School methods hit by woman nominee Mae Snow, running for education board, demands radical reforms Children kept moving like squirrels in revolving cage, she says False economy is retarding influence in education, she avers Minneapolis Morning Tribune, September 22, 1910 excerpts - Miss Mae Snow, nominated for membership on the board of education by an immense vote at Tuesday's election . . . . . . Miss Snow entered the Minneapolis schools here in 1893. She first went to the Blaine school, and then to the Jefferson, Grant, Holmes and ungraded schools in turn. She speaks of her four years at the ungraded as the happiest of her life. "I have never had so much fun before or since," she says. "I just love those bad boys and they showed what they thought of me when they grew up and went to the primaries yesterday." When principal of the ungraded school Miss Snow was chairman of a committee of teachers which sought higher salaries and to this she lays her transfer to the Columbus school, where she became a Third grade teacher. Later she was made principal, but it is a small school. She entered into the school book scandal with vigor and lost her position. . . |
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