The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-08-30
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Wednesday Morning, Aug. 80, 1871.
The Cost of n Graded High
School.


School.
lftho building cost, as it should, to
be really convenient and suitable, not
less than fvo thousand dollars, ap.
preparation Of ono hundred and sixty
dollars for tho thirty.two counties,
would erect them. A blilding for
tho negroes Of tho same kind would
also be necessary. But this second
building at tho same cost, should be
built by the county town, thus con-
tributing onc.half towards the ex.
pcnse of erecting buildings, in con-
sidcration Of being selected as the 70
cal point of education in the County.
Legislation should not leave this point
voluntary ono, or the opposition of
puro prejudice will defeat it, as it did
Jefferson's splendid scheme in Vir.
ginia. Tho matter should be compul-
sorry, or tho mere non.action of the
indifferent will dcfcat tho whole
scheme, just rs tho plan of the last
educational bill was defeated this
summer.
Tho building up, it will take, say
$1,000 to pay the Principal, $1,000 to
pay the first assistant, and $500 to
pay the second. Five hundred dol
lars more will moot Incidental expon.
sos. Three thousand, fivo hundred dol.
lars, thon, will carry on tho school. The
State and the town could divide the
expense between thom. But it would
be better perhaps not to mako these
High Schools frco schools, but public
schools, supported, in part, by tut
ton fec of tea dollars for the half
year, exactly rs is done in Prussia.
lfthis be done and a hundred pupils at
tend, tho annual tuition will amount to
$4,000, and will meet moro than ono.
half of the expense. The school, in
the other building, for negroes, owing
to their condition, will at first neccs-
|sarily be Primary and not High
School, and the tuition in it should be
altogether free, until they dosiro high.
or instruction, and arc prepared for it,
when a pay-department can then bo
also addod on to that school. What
somo ono may say, tho negroes to be
educated free of charge, md the
whites to pay Yes, friend, but not
$50 fast. Primary education should
always be perfectly FREQ, and free
Primary Department can bo alta ohod, ,
under d fourth teacher, to tho white
High school. All should be educated,
and it can be easily done, in perfect
harmony, and ut less cost, and with
far moro efficiency, if all would keep
their temper and go about it In a
friendly way, than it now costs, in the
shape of voluntary tuition foes, to
educate imperfcotly, and without sys-
tenn mot all evensbut only portion of
the whites.
In conclusion, this plan, like every
other, will be liable to many imagi-
nary, and somo real objections. TO
succeed, it must not be loft to the
voluntary caprice of tho towns, as
Jetterson's plan was in Virginia, but
should bo forced into operation, so
that it may vindioate itsolf and come
into favor by IT'S own success. Our
condition is peculiar, and special le-
gislation, and an original systom of
our own, is necessary to supply eff.
cicntly our educational necessities.
Disturbances North and
South.
Referring to the recent riot in On.
donsburg, New York, by which the
efforts of strolling lecturer to de.
liver anti" Catholic illumination were
sOupht 70 ba nravenfoI tha Now " o,l,