The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-02-05

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trsssssy. Tbs syst>@ wss INTRODUCED
inso Mssssshusstis il i64s asd Il - 500
sxelssivsiy ussd 10 Massachusetts,. Psas.
syisssis sad Indiana. 10 prsssilissiy sssd
40 several ether Staten. 10 iacreasingly
used every shsrs. and u The syssem usi.
vssslIy favored BY studsnis Of education.
hscsase. II the same o. Ices cost, larger
aid ssssss schools are lusssshsd BY IL tAas
Ivy spy other syss~n Known snoue ne
Tbn sysi~m has bssn 10 operation 10 Yer
mont long seosgh 10 test Il. end 10 nov
ussd Tor substance 10 piseissn towns BY
more than thirty thousand people. Let
then tssiify 10 i,s msriss.
Bnrlingsop adopted the town systsn -
: provisioa o. her city charter in 1867.
She boasts Of the best schools IL the state
aud has never sought return 10 The dis
tiiYt system. ysrsesS-s hes recently
u.iisi her school districts and nov - oss
body conducts her schools 10 ths sane
number asd places ~ before. After ten
years Of trial the people Of waitsAsld
sustained tbs toun system by vote Of
ITO 10 Al. the people Of Middlstoun ans
tanned IL by . vote Of 30 70 70, and in
HisssbnrgL no vote for return was called
Tor. After Ave years trial 10 Brighton but
tso persons in full town meeting voted
10 return to the district sysiem. No town
in Vermont alter i've years trial Of the
town system has returned to the district
system ~ srhcols.
Dung the last ssssiou Of our general
Assembly the committees on sducation
fully considered he comparative merits
Of The town aud district systsns Of schools
and recommended ths adoption Of the
toun :, stem. While the matter Sas under
confederation testimony concerning the
working OF the system Was received from
mary Of The tovns using 1t. That tssti--
mopy vas reported in the Montpelier
Daily Journal from which We make q.
tracts.
PROM RANDOLPH.
Mr.. p. 4. Grow. chairman Of the board |
OF directors, stated that the town system |
had worked we'll. Regular attendance,
less tardinsss. greatsr interest BY pupils
and parents, equality Of privileges and |
squalizing Of school taxes, better and per.
mansnt teachers Il smaller actual cost
has Lesu the outcome Of the adoption OF
the town system 10 Randolph.
Mr. A. A. Smith vas OF the opinion
that, the people get more for their school
money, . great deal, under the town sys-
tenn Of management; the school furnish
iugs are better, the houses are kept 10 bet
ter condition, the teachers are psrmaasnt.
" engaged extending in some cases to two
years, while before there Was ! change
every term; under the district system
there was great inequality In the length OF
terms in the different districts, now each
district has the same number Of weeks,
formerly some districts paid high school
tax, others none 1t ALL Now there is an
equality Of taxation for the schools.
Mr. D. H. Morse oorrobOratsd oil that
had been said about the favorable working
Of the system. The tax IN his district had
been one dollar for each dollar OF the
grand list for the support Of schools; now
It Vas thirty cents on the dollar, with more
weeks Of school, better teachers and bet.
ter schools.
Mr.. II. g. Gilbert explained how teach.
srs' meetings were regularly held for
mutual improvement in school work under
The direction OF the board, and the interest
That had been awakened by this means.
A. A. Priest and Col. J. B. Mead made
remarks fully sustaining the testimony 81
The preceding witnesses.
FROM BRIGHTON.
Senator Hobson told the committee how
The system had worked in Brighton, where
lfter i've years trial II had been re-adopt.
ID 10 full town meeting by nearly unan-
imous vote. only two voting very fesbly
10 the negative. The tax under the new
,ystem of management had been nearly
The sans a. under the district System, but
they had done great deal more with the
money. Better schools, mere weeks Of
school, larger attendance and . new
,chool house 10 nearly every district had
Deen provided with the money. Men that
we're originally opposed to the system
we're nov its strongest friends. Distrust
md and classification arose originally i
among It's cpponets, especially 10 the back ]
districts, from few that we're going 10
ike the system, and that the village was
yoing 10 get some advantage. After trial
he back districts had found that they
we're the ones whose condition had been
most improved, they demanded aud had
heir rights, having better houses. better !.
md longer terms Of school At less expense.
FROM wArTsvIELD. ~
Representative G. ID. Savage OF Waits r
lsld gave the experience OF that town, 4
vhsrs the system adopted ia 1874 had r
'ssoms thoroughly rooted and by it, ner
T. kad overcome opposition. A year ago
me Of the school houses vss furnished q
nth the best improved furniture sud this d
ear the town voted, without word Of =
pposition. TO put new seats into the school :
ooses. and the buildings had been paint. :
4. pspsred soa pnt 10 good condition. =
PROM EDKx Id
Representative Stone OF Eden said lis Il
owA adopted the town system three years
20. There vas nm increase 10 the total = !.
tendance from 1925 weeks in the last y
ear under the district system to IL, O65 in q
he first year under the town system. The :,
ggregate cost for the lat year under the \
istrict system wss S627; the 6rst year IN Z
Or the town System SGG2 The tax for :
b first year. when they built one new
shool house and repaired the old ones. al
- 40 per cent; for the second year IS !.
o. sest ; for the third year % per cent. =
'pder the old system some districts had &C
aid taxes As high ms 100 and ia per cent. II
lore weeks Of schools. better schools, :,
ornament teachers. schools Ia districts
hich had been without schools under the =