The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-14
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Ihe Proposed school Law.
To the Editors of the IpteIligencer, a
Members of The Lenisiaturs:

Section 16 of the bill provides that
| non-residents of the district may attend
the school of the district upon sI1ch
terms as the District Superintendent,
with the approval of the Board of Edu.
cation, may prescribe.
Is the Board not competent to pre-
scribe the terms?
Why make the parent or taxpayer
beholden to the Superintendent Why
are the terms laid down in the law?
If the taxpayer prefers to send his
children to the school not in his district,
| owing to better access to the school, or
other cause, why compel the parent to
| run down the Superintendent and bar
gain for terms. 1.-THE terms of the Super
| intendent amount to prohibition, the
taxpayer is compelled TO wait a meet
ing of the Board. In case the Board
should coincide with the Superinten-
dent, the taxpayer is compelled to
submit or plead for more reasonable
| terms.
Part of section "a reads as follows
At their first meeting, in August,
the Board shall appoint Superin.
tendent of Schools for the district, and
fix his salary.
Ger of the Board, and in addition to the
duties specified in this act, shall per
form such other duties with relation to
the schools as the Board may prescribe,
&C., &c.
What is meant by other duties not
prescribed in this act, less words would
have described the duties in palmer
language than is made use of in this
apparent clandestine language, the
parents of children are afraid that this
refers to a revival of that odious rule,
| to wit: When n child is allowed to re.
main at home for a good and sufficient
| reason, and returns armed and provi-
6an with lima from tho 80
excuse, &c.,) the pupil is sent
| back with demand from tho
teacher to know the particulars of the
absence, with threat if the particulars
are not made known, the pupil will be
treated as a truant, whipped and de-
better sense of part of the Board pre-
vailed in abolishing this rule, the pres.
ent Superintendent fought hard against
it, and is now dissatisfied, owing to its
being abolished.
What right has the superintendent or
teacher to pry into family secrets, if n
scholar is detained for day, owing to
the dilapidated state of his or her ward
robe. There is no necessity that the pa-
rents poverty should be eX posed to graf:
ify the curiosity of superintendent or
teacher. Ifa member ofthe family is sick
and they are compelled, owing to the
want of a servant, to keep their daugh-
ter at home for II day or two, the super
intendent or teacher has no legal or
moral right to demand who is sick and
what is the cause of the sickness: no
superintendent or teacher, with ordina-
ry modesty or breeding would make
such demands. 1t is but Justice to a
portion of the teachers to say, that their
apology was that they We're required
to enforce this rule by the superintend-
ent.
This 24th section also provides that
the superintendent shall not be liable
to removal by the Board of Education
omission of duty, he shall not be re-
moved unless the charges be preferred
by a member of the Board.
ask the attention of parents and
legislators to this part of the act. 1.-THE
superintendent should commit rape on
a pupil or any other base act in viola
ton of law, he cannot be expelled from
his office of superintendent of schools
If the charge is preferred by the party
outraged, or the parent of the same.
If the select few of which this law
makes the Superintendent one of the
Board, see proper to wink at his con-
duct, and call it the work of an evil
moment, he cannot be expelled, for the
law allows no one to prefer charges ex-
cept the select few. The city officers
might with the same propriety ask the
Legislature to pass a special act for
shall not be molested for any palpabie
violation of law, except the charges be
preferred by member of the council.
If the deputy sergeant of the city
would knock down and kick for fall
ing, one or more of the individuals now
advocating this odious bill, they would
be very inconsistent to condemn the
Legislature for passing an act protect
ing him in office, except the offense was
committed against, or the charges pre-
ferred by one of the select few who ap-
pointed said deputy to power.
The 9th section provides that teach
ers may be removed on complaint of
the superintendent. r5s ~.
The law is drafted so that the board
cannot discharge a teacher on COM
plant of pupil or parent. No offense
or amount of testimony can discharge
another not belonging to the board of
select few. 1t is supposed that this sec
ton of the bill is for the protection of
members of the superintendent's fam
lily engaged in teaching.
The law by which the present board
was elected provides that the superin-
tendent is to be elected by the voters of
the county. --
The proposed law provides that he
shall be chosen by the select few, and
made one of the board, &c.
The superintendent, after he becomes
a member of said board, can vote for
himself, and is not obliged to ask the
but derives his office from the select
few, of which he is one.
It has been recently said, by one
learned in the law, that in the provi-
dence OF God men cannot always cover
their tracks,. - -5 @
The superintendent has often ex-
pressed a desire of getting things as he
epanfS II and If THAT N INia
endeavors to do so he has exposed his
tracks. 1t is not to be supposed that if
the present bill passes that the super
intendent has got things as he wants
them. He still lacks a round of being at
the top of the ladder. EFEf4
The present dose is considered too
large for the Legislature to take at one
time. Half OF the pill is reserved for
a future time. When the Superintend-
ent, by the present law, is made one of
the Board OF Education, after the Leg
isIature has established the precedent
of taking from the voters of Ohio coun-
ty the election of a Superintendent of
Ohio county School District, the Legis-
lature will be applied to 10 grant the
power to the Board of Edpcation 10
elect the State Superintendent of
Schools. As the vanity of the Superin-
tendent of the Wheeling District would
prompt him to become candidate for
State Superintendent, and being a
member of the Board, by act of the
present Legislature, would be enabled
10 climb TO the upper round ofthe School
ladder, or to use his language, get
things as he wants them.
For these and other reasons IL Is eX-
pected that the Legislature will not pass
this bill. CITIZEN.
"A teacher in a public school gave a
sentence to be written and properly