The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-11-01
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Ep,roKs PALLADIUM lr your last issue.
Taxpayer gets very indignant over the I'M
heard of imposition and dissppoin,-
ment OF not having The Public Schools
opened on The 18th OF October Lest year,
we believe. they DID no, open until Decem-
Der, and The W ar before. l think. no earlier
than is uow intended. Was Taxpayer a
resident ii this ely at that timel We c~s-
tsinly had no suca manifestation of his viz.
taous indignation. Had circumstances per-
mitte,l Us 10 open our school on the / st 81
September as was in, nded. we should,
probatly, have commenced our Pnbi'c
School term one week carrier than nj pres.
ent. II was thought That the present school
ought TO be well organized be- ore The olher
term should comm-Ies. Any one. who can
see any thing. can understand how snch a
course would mate islis assist ia The inme-
diste organization o the departments OF the
Public School. Il two-thirds of the pupils
are scquaiu ed with our discipline, there is
no trouble IN teaching it to the remaining
teird. There is therefore a saving of time.
aud consequently Of money in the present
arrangement. But further, our iux-yed
fault finder has discovered that the ti:ket
So stem is failure. We regret that he
should rave SO suddenly startled US frou.
our dreams of success. We had filtered
ourselves that we were eminen,ly success
tul. We have about four hundred pupil:
in attendance, all of whom, with perhaps
ten exceptions, have entered under the
scholarship system. In fac, they could
enter in no other way. unless they made
positive arrange ments 10 do otherwise. fol
that was known to be the plan upon which
the school was organized. The exceptional
cases were charged regular private school
tuition rates. about fifty per cent. more.tha
the tickets cost. Such pupils are an advan-
tage to US pecuniariIy. We would like to
have more. Again. all who have visited
our schools have acknowledged them better
taught. better graded. and better discipn-
ed by far than ever before. So much tor
the failure. We shall not object to expert.
ence a few more such. Again IS to che
cause OF the failure j" the want Of conf
dence between employer and employed"
Here the ears have shown themselves. Un.
der the plea OF favoring the plan. Tsxpsy er
thought to stab US mole effcctuSily. He
will deceive no one rs to his own feelings
in the matter. Pray what have the teachers
of this city done. or bow has the writer OF
this article been gully Of or SO unfortunate
in bis management Ut the sch: ols for sir
weeks. tfor to him. l suppose. Taxpayer
particularly refers) to lose the confidence oil
the community! We have all set out with
the determination of elevating the standard
of the schools of the city. and We do not in
tend to be driven from that determin alton
by the pc, son.l attacks OF any individual.
Tor We convinced that The people will be
satisfied with good school. il it should b
Managed by a single Individual. All we
ask is a trial. If Taxpayer does not wish
TO help US in our endeavors, why should he
desire to irjure us? Does he not kno~
that such attempts, ii successful. will injure
the community just so far as they iujure the
school GEO. z. BKowN.