3. Teachers. Most, if not all, settlements have industrial
classes of one kind or another, so that the teacher is an important
factor in settlement work. All teachers here included have had
special training in their particular fields at schools offering such
courses. Only five of those for whom we have data are given a
definite salary, the others being paid by the lesson, hour, or even-
ing. One of the five, a kindergarten teacher, receives $900, an-
other, a gymnasium instructor, $800, and the third, a teacher of
domestic science, $600, and the other two, who teach kinder-
garten and household economics, began at $480 and have advanced



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to $7^0. The lowest price paid for a lesson is 50 cents, but the
usual sum varies from $1.50 or $^.00 a lesson to $4 an evening.
Dancing teachers conmiand from $2 to $4 a lesson or $5 an
evening.
Playground Workers. Playgrounds are closely associated with
settlements, both in the class of persons dealt with and in the type
of teachers demanded. As the playgrounds are usually open
about eight weeks in the summer, many of the workers teach
during the winter months, and such training and experience is
frequently their only equipment. A few, however, have had
kindergarten training or have attended a physical training school.
In one city the supervisors of playgrounds must be graduates
of schools of physical culture.
