Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-10-27
TUES DAY, OCTOBER 90, 1883
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Tue resolution lnTOuuCeu ny MI
Singley and passed by the Board OF
Education ct an adjourned meeting OF
the Board a week ago, calling on the
Superintendent of Publi; Schools to re-
port the number OF pupils IN attendance
at those schools whose parents II We out
OF the city, has revealed the fact that IN
sixtee of our public schools there are
not less than ninety.one The names
OF such pupils and their residences are
given, 80 that 1t is known who they
are and where they 2su be found. In
No. IL school there are twenty-three
such pupils in attendance, but there is
some excuse for Theses that cannot be
urged In behalf Of Others, Old school
district No. 10, tia. befo the en'a-le-
ment Of the city limits lay outside of
the city, was cut In two by such ex-
tension, and more than half the pupils
with the school house were brought in
side the city. Every year, by special
act Of the Legislature, the Board ofEdu-
cation collects the school tax OF the out
lying part of the district, which is paid
into the school treasury, and used in
support of our public schools. This
gives the pupils from that outlying dis
trict q right to attend the city public
schools the same as if they resided in
side the city limits.
But the same cannot be said OF other
children who attend our schools, and
whose parents reside in the country -
They have no right whatever TO attend
our public school, and by doing 30 they
are excluding others who are entitled L
seats. These pupils come to the city
by the Wilmington and Northern, the
Delaware Western and the p, W. *
b. Railroad, and some who cannot con
veniently come in by public conveyance
come in private conveyances. IL I:
said to be no unusual thing to see a
number of carriages drive up to No.
high school and unload pupils from
Brandy wine, New Castle and Chris
tiana Hundred. They come In from
Falkland, from Newport from Stan
ton aud some from greater distance
We certainly should appreciate th
estimation in which our public school
are held by opy country friends, bu
that estimation will hardly Offset tn
ak Kindred children Of our own cit.
->pwho are debarred from seats in our pub
Tic schools who are entitled TO them, an,
whe cannot get them because tn
schools are full.
This looks very much like bein
generous before we are just. Now, a
n matter OF fact, these pupils from th
country, with the exception OF thos
residing In old school district No Il
have no more right to go to our publ
schools than II they resided in Kent c
Sussex Counties, and every seat the
occupy is keeping Wilmington b.
or girl out OF seat, AS our WHINING
ton people pay taxes to support u
public schools, 1t Is not right TO crow
their children out by other childr'
whose parents pay no taxes. There
many people 80 very generous that TIN
would look upon any act as selfish til
would prevent children from the cou
try from coming TO our public school
but such persons, before they take I
the cry Of elfishness, should rememb
that there are six hundred knocking
the doors of our pubic schools for sea-
and there are none to give them. o
hundred, at least, OF these seats are 3
cupied by those who have no right
them. Is this righs IS i.ju7ticei
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