The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-08-24

Day, at which time It was expsae peg. &
that lsatta principle and two. asslstaftta
would pc selected 70 take charge of
The school ataassthis place, but the
meeting resulted iii Il failure, anil as
yet no arrangements have been
made. ~ z
Messrs. y. B. f. Mills, L. NJ.
Riggs and VIM. Wolfe represented
the county, While e. q. Geoaloe, w.
F. Baker and c. W. Evans repro
scented the town as trustees.
Taking it on a basis of five
months term, the county proposed to
pay $3.50, which would be equal to
paying the principal salary of
$1,000 peg. month, leaving the town.
to pay the assistants, which at a
salary Of $4,000 per month each.
would amount during the five
months to $500. On this basis the
county trustees proposed to allow
the town TO select the assistants and
claimed the right to select a princi
pal.
In making this proposition, or
rather this demand, the county trus
tees seemed to have over looked sew
eral very important features.
In the first place, FIVE are correct
ly informed, instead of five-months,
tllc town proposes to have q nine
months school; thus It will be seen
that tire term at the salaries named
above would amount to 5000. $3.50
is ait countyol1crs to5pay, there's
forethc : town would pay $4,000
against e'coapty,s $4,000. +
- In the second place, the county
has never spent one dollar toward
the erection Of a school building in
the town OF Big Stone Crap, and the.
citizens. Of /, the. place have had to,
lopk soa1trIor u heflselNes sin this rel
IissLea hfd pfh tome Gap
pays asodtf AFce: fou4tFls# Of the he
school taXihat goes to keep up all
Che public schools going ia this
school district. 49,.
Besides this, She has let to con-
tract school building thatwill cost,
when completed, about $4,000, not.
cent : ofa which sswill come, off the
county q .-sse.ee.@ ..r : 49,. -
.Again, no frst-class principal, the
kind the town proposes ana intends
to put in charge Of the graded school
at this place, can be secured at any
such salary as $40 per month. The
teacher at the head Of such a school
as is to be established here should
be man well prepared and thor
orghly qualified in every particular.
He must be well up with the general
of modern times as
we'll as being able to teach the child
that the sum Of Is is not divisible by
80, or that it requires sach u length
Of time for a ray of light to traverse
the space between some distant orb
an, the earth.
While this is by no means intend
ed as. a reflection on anyone who
might be the choice Of cithor town
or county trustees; still, if they know
abont the work in hand,
and we have no right to question
this, they will know these are facts.
In establishing The school here of
the character proposed it is simply
nonsense to talk Of running it nine
months, with competent corps OF
teachers. even at the outside figures
given above-$960.oo. If the cx-
pen;sc of such a school proves to be
less than 81 500 to $4,000, then it
must be in the hands of superior fl
nanciers, aid then they VIII have
lust gropnds for INSTRUMENTATION.
: 'rhe correct thing to do, which
should have been done long ago, Is
to make q separate school DISTRICT Of
Big Stone Gap, aud give her people
the benefit of what they pay to the
school fund. If they have to take
care Of themselves entirely in this
respect, let them have the full bene-
fit Of what they pay:
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