The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-22 00:00:00

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Address Secretary, Institute of Anatomy. Birmingham

THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS.

NEXT week will take place the triennia'
elections to the School Board for London
and in some of the important boroughs
which wore supplied with similar bodies at
the same time as the metropolis. The local
Parliament of the capital, so far as edu-
cational purposes are concerned, comprises
fifty members, distributed amongst the
different Parliamentary divisions according
to the population. Thus the great con-
stituency of Ifarylebone, with half-a-million
people within its limits, sends seven members
to the School Board, while it has but two
representatives in the House of Commons.
The City of London proper, the smallest of
the whole of the divisions, has four members
in each assembly. In other ways too. the
School Board elections included novel
features. For the first time in the repre-
sentative life of England the Legislature re-
cognized the principle of the cumulative
vote, and applied it to these contests. In
Parliamentary and municipal elections there
can be no concentration of votes upon a
single candidate; hut in those for the School
Board, while each elector has a number of
votes equal to the number of members to
be returned, he can give them all to one
candidate, or distribute them in any pro-
portion he may see fit.
School Boards have now been in oper-
ation nine years, the Act of Parliammt
calling them into existence having been
passed in the summer of 1870, at the time
when the news of the declaration of war by
France against Prussia burst upon the ears
of startled Europe. The first election of the
School Board for London took place on the
39th of November, 1870; others followed in
1873 and 1876; so that the impending con-
test of the 27th will be the fourth of the
series. The array of talent on the first
School Board for London will not yet have
been forgotten. Its chairman was Lord
Lawrence, one of the most distinguished
administrators who ever filled the office of
Governor-General of India; there were
several members of the House of Commons
upon it; Professor Huxley also found a
place there ; while Miss Garrett, one of the
most eminent lady physicians of the day
was at the head of the poll for Marylebone,
with nearly 48,300 votes. Many of the men
who were upon the first board made that
their only experience of such work. Lord
Lawrence, who died a few months ago, did
not seek re-election; Professor Huxley
resigned his seat evert before his three-
years' term of office had expired. The
prosaic details of a vast organization were
left to be grappled with, not by the shining
lights of genius, but by those who, with
with time at their disposal, were enabled to
devote all their energies to the execution of
a colossal task. Colossal it certainly was, for
it consisted in bringing into a homogeneous
whole the educational wants of more than
three millions of people, and in providing
for them.
Nearly a third of a generation has passed
away since the School Boards first came into
action, and as each successive year rolls over
our heads, the public will begin to expect
some beneficial resultsfrom vast organization
and the enormous expenditure of School
Board labours. The lad of nine when
the Education Act was passed is now verg-
ing upon twenty. He is to all intents and
purposes a man in a great proportion of
instances he has been instructed at the cost
of the body politic; what contribution is he
making to the general wealth and the pros-
perity of the State ? What is his return to
the ratepayers for the benefits which be has
received at their hands? Does he either
individually or collectively help to keep
down pauperism or to diminish crime, both
of which are turns far heavy burthens upon
the rates ? Questions like these are likely
to be asked with every succeeding School
Board election. A large proportion of
householders are now called upon to pay
for the education of the children of others
as well as their own; and it is not unnatural
for them to anticipate that, as the School
goes up, the poor rate should go down. In
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