The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-23
RECENT RULINGS OF TIE STATE So.
PERINTENDENT.

RECENT RULINGS OF the STATE So
| PERlNTENDENT.
l. Each of the members of county
board of examiners has the same voict
and vote in selecting the time and plsct
of holding examinations, and in deter
mining the questions to b asked, and
whether or not the answers given BY thu
candidates are correct.
2. County examiners are not author
lied BY law to date certificates back to {
time previous to the holding of the ex'
animation at which it was determined u
issue the certificate.
3. A teachers certificate cannot be
legally renewed, nor the time for which
it was originally issued extended, with
out public examination of the person
holding the same.
4. An examination il not public" un.
less anyone desiring to do 20 10 permitted
to know the questions put to and the
answers returned by the candidates. for
certificates. In oral examinations, OF
course. it is every person's privilege to
hear all that il said by both examiner
and applicant. In written examinations
it would be we'll to have all papers sub
mitted by the candidates fled in the
Office of the County Superintendent,
where interested parties could examine
them at any time. If this were done, it
would compel examiners to be impartial
u their grading, often relieving them
from very unjust criticism and Il would
kreatly assist school officers in making
ELECTIONS of teachers.>
s. A member of an examining board
il not, by virtue of his office qualified
teacher. If one of the examiners should
desire to teach public school, he should
pass" at q public examination con.
Quoted by the two other members. His
examination should certainly be ~
thorough and - exhaustive - that of
any other teacher in the county. The
County Superintendent cannot legally
examine one of the members of the
board and issue him . certificate without
the assistance and concurrence of the
other member of the board.
6. "If person improves school lands
upon which he does not reside, and after
ward another person settles upon and
improves the same land, does the latter
on purchasing the land as provided in
Sec. 6, Art. XIV, p. 81 of School Laws,
come into possession of Improvements
made by the former without paying for
them p Ans,cer: He who makes i'm
provement upon school lands without
first occupying the same does 30 at his
peril. Nowhere does the law provide
that any other than the actual settler
shall be entitled to pay for improve
ments. Certainly Improvements of .
permanent nature, such - breaking,
hedges, young trees, ETC., must 90 with
the premises when cold. He who enters
upon unappraised school land for any
other purpose than that of occupying
and improving the same Is An sctusl
settler, cannot be regarded in any other
than as trespasser.
Z. School district officers are not au.
thorized by law to purchase books
for the use of their echool, and pay for
the same out of the funds of the district.
Some time since copy of circular
that is supposed to have been issued and
circulated last summer, in which school
districts were advised to ''follsw the sug-
gestion of Neir State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and at the time of
their annual meeting levy q tax with
which to purchase text books" was re-
ceived at this Office. This suggestion
never was made by your State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction. He has
held that such tax WAS illegal, and
could not be collected. 1t has been held
by some that under the library act tax
for the purchase of text books can be
levied. This is a mistake. The Ian
guage of the act cannot be so construed
Is to permit the district board to use the
fund secured from this tax for the pur-
chase of text books for the use of the
school. The law was enacted for very
different purpose, and its intent is clear.
If the district cannot levy a tax with
which to purchase text books, certainly
the district board has no right to use the
fund collected from any other tax for
this purpose, even if the electors of the
district should vote unanimously in
structing them to do so.-Eduoationai
Calendar.