Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-06
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Trustees Haze Decided to
Opem Them Neat Monday.

quested to be present at the open
ing of school so that they can be
assigned to their proper grades.
The text books and copy books
will be furnished free of charge,
but pupils must supply themselves
with pen and ink, slate and pencil,
and since the cost of buying books
is abolished would like to urge
that every pupil from the third
reader up be supplied with a pen
Gil tablet.
The benefits derived from class
work are incalculable; it produces
an enthusiasm that engenders a
healthy and permanent growth.
and brings out the dormant ener-
gies to do active and useful work.
l request therefore that the patrons
use their utmost to encourage and
keep up regular attendance as it
is indispensable to successful class
work.
will endeavor to advance the
school to the best of my ability,
and seek to create and keep up an
interest on the part of the pupils.
/ hope and trust that you, the pa
irons, will cooperate with me and
those who may be called to assist
in the school. With your co-opera-
tion we can make the school a
rousing success. By order of the
Board of Trustees.
JACOB VERCLER,
Principal Grangeville Schools.
The following rules have been
framed to keep control of the free
text books, subject to such revision
and amendment as experience may
suggest:
!. Pupils residing in the dis
trict, and non-residents who have
paid their tuition, shall be entitled
to one copy of all the books used in
their grades.
2. Pupils attending school and
using the books belonging to the
district may take them to their
homes for the purpose of preparing
the lessons.
3. Pupils, or their parents or
guardians, shall be held RESPONSE
BILE for damage done to the books
used by them, other than the u.s.
ual and necessary wear and tear,
and such damage shall be assessed
by the Board of Trustees and lev
led on the said parents or guardian:
Provided such assessment does not
exceed the value of the book or
books damaged.
4. Parents or guardians shall
not be released from responsibility
until the books used by their child
rem or wards shall have been ex-
amined by the trustees, and by
them declared in good condition.
5. Books used by the pupils
shall be returned at the end of
each term, or at the end of the
last term of the scho oil
year, as the trustees may require.
Pupils leaving school must return
the books used by them, subject to
examination by the trustees; nor
shall they be released from respon-
sibility until released by the trus-
tees.
The great and pressing need of
the State of Idaho is a constitute
ional amendment prohibiting the
State legislature from tinkering
with the General School law at
every session. In our twenty years
residence in Idaho we have noticed
that every session of the legislat-
ure seems to make it a point of
honor to tinker with the school
law and to so bobble up it's provis-
ions that the services of a Phila-
delphia lawyer are required to un-
ravel its intricacies. And just
about the time that the trustees of
the school districts begin to get the
hang of it the legislature meets
again, changes the law and throws
everything into confusion. The
political party that inserts plank
in it's platform pledging all its
legislative nominees to leave the
school law alone will get the vote
of every school trustee in the State.
The free text book system may
prove to be good one when fairly
tested, but there is small hope OF
doing more than getting started
this year. Some districts have re-
ceived twice as many books of one
kind as they ordered, and none OF
others; and the time, trouble and
expense incurred in re-ordering il
making the trustees and the county
superintendent mad as hornets
1t is useless to blame Judge CARRIER
His duty in the matter is simply tt
forward the acquisitions of the dis
trict trustees to the State superin
tendent. The books are consigned
to the county superintendent, ant
upon their arrival he delivers then
to the district trustees. These func
tions entail upon county superin
tendents vast amount of clerica
work for which the law provide
no compensation. Meanwhile, tn,
readers and spoilers have not ar
rived, and school is generally sus
pended in consequence.