Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-12-26

to blind the pSople. If redistrict-
ing is done ID as thinly a settled
county as Oconee, there would doubt
less be many districts in which there
would not be, children enough to
make g school. TO spend the little
money appropriated for the chill
dron's educatioEfor such purpose,
as surveying the county and divid-
ing it into districts, in building
school houses at an expense to the
already overburdened people, is not
good nor is it right.
is IT'S ADOPTION BY THE PEOPLE
DESIRED?
No, its adoption by the people,
outside of tho towns, is not desired.
What motive could the people have
in running their county to need
less and unnecessary expense Pan
expense that could not and would
not benefit a single individual ex-
ccpt the one who makes the survey.
Will making school identical
with district injurc the teacher? :?
Yes, it will injurc the teacher, injurc
the children, injurc the taxpayers
Oco,uin the cause of education in
perly be do,ty-... ,NeMight very pro;
) chusetts or any other thicklS Sasssa-
tied State, but by no means should
it be done in Oconec county. Max.
] ing district, though, identical with
school, would suit, and might very
properly be done in Oconee county
Wherever there is school that
section or ncighborhood should con
stltute school district. The school
which is the most important should
determine the district, but the dis
trct which is of less Importance
should not determine the school.
The School Commissioner or Board
OF Examiners could appoint three
good men as trustees of these
schools, when every school would,
as 1T should have, three trustees,
who were citizens in the ncighbor.
hood and most. probably ,patrnns Of
VIC schooi. l'nese trustees could
call meeting of the patrons when
necessary, care for the school pro-
pcrty, visit the schools as the law
directs and would have no occasion
to 60 to High Falls, Little River or
any other place where they were not
known. Don't you see it? 1t al
most explains itself. Then as the
rule of apportionmcnt applies to the
School Commissioners and to dis
tricts, he can by the four fundamen-
tai rules, addition, subtraction, mul.
tiplication and division, apportion to
each set of trustees their exact part
of the public funds, when they in
turn would pay it to the teachers
when they had discharged their du-
ties.
NO LAW UNDER TIE SUN TO GOVERN
TRUSTEES, &C.
The Board of Examiners saw
there is no law under the sun to
govern the trustees in paying out
tho fnopny tn Sohoplo
"The trustees draw their orders
o" the County Treasurer in behalf
OF "honI they please, the School
Commissioner acting v~ly as n kind
of check upon them hy hav,.s 70
countersign their orders; but in no
instance having a right to draw an
original order or direct the trustees
to whom to draw one"
The trustees then may draw the
order in favor of themselves or any
friend, regardless of services rem
dcrcd, and that, too, for any amount,
provided it does not exceed the
amount apportioncd to tie town
ship, the School Commissioner, AZ a
mere clerk, having to countersign it
rs kind of check. Can't some of
the strong, vigorous and intelligent
young men give our poor country
people and our country teachers
some explanation and the modern
definition of that word check?
PULLING OUT OF OLD Rurs.
There are already too many strong,
vigorous and intelligent young men
in easy bcrths, who are trying to
pull out of old ruts, while oar pco.
pie are groaning under constantly
increasing taxes, and while our poor
girls, as e. G. II. justly said, have to
trudgc through rain and mud and
snow to perform their hard service
and are then denied their poor pit
tancc. If the strong, vigorous and
intelligent young men, who are elect
cd to office by the people, would do
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