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

! Vhoio WaS Nv WtcHuuuCc upon WnlGn
to apportion Il. This is the object
aimed at, in nanindirect way, a way
to blind the psople. II redistrict.
ing is done as thirty a settled
county as Oconee, there wonld doubt.
less be many Districts in which there
would not boSohildren enough to
make q school. To spend the little
money appropriated for the chill
dren's educatioE for suoh a 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 the towns, is not desired.
What motive could tho people have
in running their county to a need
less and unnecessary expense Pan
expense that could not and would
not benefit single. individual OK
cept the one who, makes the survey.
Will making a school Identical
with a district injure the teacher 2
Yes, it will injutc the teacher, injure
the children, ipjure the taxpayers
and ruin the ca,ke of education in
Oconee county Aslight very pro;
perly be doneSin New York, Massa.
chusetts or any other thickly sets
tied State, but by no means should
it be done in Ocaee county. Max
ing district, though, identical with
school, would suit, and might very
properly be donein Ocopee county.
Wherever there is school that
section or neighborhood should con-
stitute school district. The school
which is the most important should
determine the district, but the dis
trict 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,
rs it should have, three trustees,
who were citizens in the neighbor-
hood and most ss9hshly 4patrons of
the school. Thesc trustees could
call meeting of the patrons when
necessary, care for the school pro-
perty, 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 apportionment applies to the
School Commissioner 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 THE SUN TO GOVERN
TRUsTEEs, &c.
The Board of Examiners saw
there is no law under the sun to
govern the trustees in paying out
the money to schools.
"The trustees draw their orders
on the County Treasurer in behalf
OF whom they please, the School
Commissioners acting osly as q kind
of check upon them by havlns TO
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
dered, and that, too, for any amount,
provided it does not exceed the
amount apportioncd to tie town
ship, the School Commissioner, as a
mere clerk, having to countersign il
as 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 our pco-
pie are groaning under constantly
increasing taxes, and while our poor
girls, as T.. G. II. justly said, have to
trudge through rain and mud and
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