The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-09-10
No Colored School, and Why.
"a Editor of "a Standard

To tie Editor Of the Standard:
Please allow an anxious enquirer a
space in your much read paper, to ask
why it is that the ringing of the bells
announcing 10 the parents and children
of jackson the opening of the public
schools, on the 9Th inst did not also
apply to the colored parents and their
children? Is there Board of Directors,
and if so are they the directors of the
whole school, or do they look upon the
colored children as not forming part of
the whole people; and as they have been
, elected as Trustees, or Directors, of the
schools, to attend to all of them, why
are our children neglected Were they
not voted for by the legal voters for the
purpose of looking after the educational
interests of all If so, why are no teach
ers appointed to the colored school? Is
it no bodys business to attend to this
very much neglected portion of the
Jackson schools, simply because the
allwise God saw fit, agreeable to His will,
/ to create and form them as it seemed
/ best to Him? We, like the directors,
/ had no say so in our creation, therefore
we are not to blame. If there is, as | am
aware that there is, Incidence on the
part of the colored people, that is no ex-
cuse, in my opinion for them They, as
the directors, are in duty bound to do
their duty impartially, without regard to
their peculiar ideas
We do not say that there is any preiu-
dice mixed up with the affair But we
do say there is a wrong somewhere, and
hence the inquiry. Every unprejudiced
mind will therefore conclude that there
is a screw that does not turn properly
it is rusty and wants greasng. This is
our opinion.
The question is, why did not the color
ed schools open as the whites on the 7th
inst? If no teacher has been appointed,
why not? Is it nobody's business to at
tend to the very much neglected colored
schools of jackson Or, perhaps the di-
rectors have been very busy since the
close of the schools, and had not time.
But if they are the directors of all the
made the necessary arrangements for all
the schools to open on the same day
Are not the Public Schools for the use
of the public, without regard to national
ity? We are told that the coIored
schools can only be in session six months
Does this also apply to the German and
Irish, and if not, why The school fund
is for the benefit of all, and there is nc
! discrimination only against us. Why
: set apart certain amount for us and dc
not the same for the above named per
, sons? This is a question that involve!
the principle of republicanism. Are the
children of the colored people to be de
! prived of three months schooling jus
! because they are colored We are ask
: ing for information. We have been tolc
that there is not money enough to ru1
+. the schools, and that the amount Sc
aside for the colored people will only
: allow their schools to run six months
t We have been under the impression tha
; the common schools were for the benef
! of all, rich and poor alike, and if ther,
, should be any discrimination made a
! all, it seems to me that it ought to be il
: favor of the poor, though 1 am not il
favor of any discrimination. Either Civ,
: US teachers in our own schools, or W,
e must send to those that are alread,
open.
: Are the Directors Of the Schools th,
> Directors of all the Schools, or are the,
3 not2 This is the question.
HNnV