The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-12-05
You Need a Building.

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The School Board Of Hillsboro find
themselves so cramped for room to ac-
commodate the pupils in attendance at
the Union Schools that they are looking
for other rooms in which to empty
part OF the already crowded building
on Walnut street into. They have ap.
piled to the trustees OF the M. E. Church
for the use of one Of the rooms in that
building for school purposes at the pres
ent. This may be Just the proper thing
to do Just at the present time, but with
the fact staring them in the face, that the
Union School Building has been steadily
filling up, 80 that for two years past 1t
has been question of no easy solution
as to how all these young people are to
be accommodated with the present
capacity OF the school building.
The question forces itself without
argument that in the immediate future
new buildings will have to be provided
for the accommodation of the resident
children of Hillsboro. And the more so
does this become apparent when. it is
remembered that the compulsory law Of
attendance at school goes into effect on
the LIST of January, 1890.
It is no desire to be wise beyond our
fellows that causes us to again point to
the practice OF throwing open the Union
School doors to all and sundry from the
country. The time may have been
when that course was wise, but the wis.
dom of that course of admitting all (or
any who pay the established tuition
fee is doubted by number OF the intel.
ligent citizens OF the town. No better
time than now could be found for gen.
eral comparison of views on this subject
The time for the election Of two new
members to the School Board is not far
distant. It certainly would be very
proper time just now to discuss that
matter. Parents and guardians are in
terested directly in the advantages
which the children enjoy in the Union
Schools. Now if the advantages Of un
divided attention to resident pupils is al
all lesssned by the admission into oul
schools of nonresident young people
that fact, if made apparent, should bt
deemed sufficient to call for change In
the order OF things. This matter needs
agitation, and, with no reflection on any
concerned in the management of oul
schools, little investigation can do nc
" harm.
As to the necessity Of more room the
present crowded condition Of the schoo
building will admit Of no controversy
on that point. Under this admitted con
dition of things, connected with the re
cent acts of the School Board in the cor
pofation, in trying to secure room II
the M. E. Church for school purposes
would it not be wisdom to make an effor
to secure one of the buildings now occu
pied as College or Conservatory? Eithe
of those buildings would certainly &C
commodate all that are now in attend
ance at both places. There is no inten
ton of casting any reflection on the wa!
those institutions are conducted, bu
simply suggest that one of the building
now occupied would be quite sufficien
for the accommodation of those in at
tendance at both places, while the Boart
of Education could soon I'LL the othe
building with resident pupils, and b.
turning over the nonresident pupils, 81
to speak, to the other management on'
would aid the other, while the towl
| and county would be the gamer. Thi
may not be the rery best thing that coult
be done, but it will bear little consid
Grafton.