The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-11-10
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zen dent, aud considers the money wisely
Now, why is it that the counties Of
Iowa should be an exception to this gem
eral rule: If the people Of New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, &C., &C., dnd il
good policy to have a superintendent Of
schools in each county, why win not the
same system do a good work in Iowa!
1t will; and with confidence we point to
thosa counties where good and true men
have filled this Office, to sustain the as
sertion. Only give US good men to fill
the Office, and time to prove its merits,
and the people of Iowa will not allow the
County SUPPLEMENTARY to be abolish
cd"
The next objection of the Democrat,
is as follows:
Secondly, We are opposed to the
township district system, which takes the
management out of the hands of the peo-
pie in the different sub, districts and
places it in the hands of q few. This
does not and will not work well. Every
district shouldN an independent one for
all the purposes necessary for the man
agement and control of their own schools.
Under the present system they can
not even build school house unless they
can get the whole township to vote for
it, and then it must be constructed and
situated where others who are not inter
est shall say. Aud they are also obliged
to have a schoo! when the township
board shall Say so, without regard to
their own interest or convenience. An
other thing, this district system, as il is
now fixed, is great hardship and wrong;
when any one sub district has failed to
have school at least three months in
each year for two consecutive years, the
whole township district, which may have
IA dozen schools, shall be deprived OF its
portion Of the school fund for the second
Of those years Thus, for the short
coming Of one obscure sub district thou
sands OF scholars are deprived of their
rights, and the means necessary to their
education See second paragraph of the
l. VS. of the Board of Education"
How does the Democrat know that
the township system evil not work
well?' 1t knows that it, and its party.
with few honorable exceptions, have
dong Il in their power to prevent fair
trial Of the law, and we submit that such
Journal is not the proper one to say
that the system evil not work well. -
When the Democrat and its party will
endeavor to carry out the law according
to its true intent, and it then fails t.
"work WE'LL" will be the time for it tc
ask that the law be changed. We would
ask the Democrat to tell US whcthe,
1.-The township district system" has
worked well' in Ohio or Pennsylvania
if it does not inform US, we may have tt
inform it, at some other time. Wha
the Democrat means by taking ",ht
management out Of the hands of the PEG
ple,' we cannot divine. Does it wisl
to have the people meet en- masse ant
hire their teachers, buy wood, etc? p
The Democrat says: Every distric
should be an independent one," etc
this is precisely what the school law does
II it does not, will the Democrat give U,
the clause of the law that takes this pow
er from them.
The Democrat further objects that
"under the present'system they canno
even build school house, unless tn,
whole township votes for it," etc. TIL,
l'w does not require the tip to vote, Meth
er does ltreqnire majority of the voters
t. vote for it. 1t simply requires that
majority Of the voters present and rot
Ing shall vote for it, or they may no
vote on the subject at all Blu, deleeat
the authority to levy a tax to tn
township board, and the latter has beer
the course taken by almos. every distric
where the people have been willing t,
give the law fair trial A. to the 10
eating Of the school house the Democra
mi<statcs the law. Section 27, AR. 6
of the law, referring to the duties Of tn
district board, says:
ITO fix the site for each school house
taking into consideration the wants an,
necessities Of the people of each por,iol
of the district
And Sec. 81, Art Is, reads:
"They shall at their FIRST regular meet
ing after the taking effect Of this act
divide their district into sub districts
such as justice, equity and the interes,
OF the people require"
Here the law asserts that sub district,
shall be made and school houses bull
where the interests Of the people require
The Democrat says that they ar,
obliged to have school when the town
ship board shall say SO, and in the mex
sentence il says, when any sub distric
has failed etc. rather inconsistent
We would ask how sub. district can fai
to have school when the TOWNSHIP,
board are to control the whole natter
Here Is one great cause why SO much OBJ
lection is made t. the law, people forge,
that the township board is re. ponsibl,
for the schools in each and every sub
district. Again, the Democrat says:
to mention the manner Of taxation,
which is as unequal as it is unjust, and
which comes far short of free school