, 1875-06-13
TEXTBOOKS.
The Proposition to Cheaper tho
Price for Chicago Children.
Objections to the Scheme.

Objections to the Scheme.
rt;a .p Ill wind that blons nobody good. The
recent 6rtt in the Board Of Education oYsr the
attemnted introduction Of new textbooks will
,,,donhtedly result in q great and permanent
1,enef,t to the people who send children to the
nnh1ic schools. The warfare between the partl-
aana and opponents OF certain new textbook,
which Was finally rofuscd admission, became go
bitter tha. it opencd up the entire textbook
6ela and raised wholly unexpected isHue-
why the people should be compelled to pay out
80 ENORMOUS SUN or MONEY
for taxi books, etc.. every year. JuAt what this
sum is in gross, i. is not poBaib'o to ascertain
With nerfect accuracy. In January Of The pres
ent yoar thore wero enrolled in the public schools
$1,000 pupils. An average for the annual cost
of textbooks per pupil. in Ill the grades, in-
Guiding the High School, would give, according
to good educational authority. about S5 year.
Some Of the teachers think this too high, others
that it is too low when everything is counted in.
It is probably fair, therefore. Assuming it to be
80, the parents who send children to the public
schools of Chicago pay to the publishers OF text
books
$3.50, 1000 4 YEAR
brost at tho books used in the lowest grades
are small and cheap. but. as the grades ascend,
the prices go up. For instance, In the lowor
grades, pupils pay IS cents for reader, 81 20
for q history, .S3 for geography, 81 cents for
4 GRAMMAR 81 cents for an arithmetic. When
thay ara promoted they pay 21.50 for . history,
a. 80 for an atlas, 81 rs for geometry, 81 for
an astronomy, 81 for geology, s.. SO for Po-
ltical Economy, 81 for ph1losophy, ~ for an
history. II they study other languages,
thew pay $3.50 fur German Method, sl,so
for o French Method, S1.75 for Literature
franchise, 81 for Latin Prose, 23.3o for q
classical dictionary 80 for Iatin lexicon, 81
for Greek lexicon, aud other bo.oks III pro-
portion.
THE RETAIL PRICES
OF rc5ool-took lncludee the percentages OF
profit fur q number 0: n1iddlemen who pass it
along from the publisher to tho consumer and
this represents about 10 per cent OF tho sum
mid by tho parent. The resolution introduced
by INSPECTOR English At tho last meeting which
is RECEIVING all but unanimous favor in
the Board contonp|ates the saTlAg OF
nearly this amount to the parent. He proposes
that tho Board buy t1fa books at wholesale di-
rectly from the publishers and sell TO the pupils
at the same rato II is certain that as least 30
cents will thus be saved On every dollar, and,
since it eau be saved it ia Very nat1lrn that pa
rents should insist that it shall be saved. II the
proposed arrangement can be carried ous, the
peopio will DO the gamers BY at least 500, 600
yesr.
Happily for the success Of the suggestion, it
has already
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