The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-08
School Trnaren..


: Commissioners Bright culled the
meeting to order. There we're seven,
ty-hve trustees in attendance. The
commissioner took the floor at request
and proceeded to discuss tho maCters
i'll hand: "My board has concluded
that it Is best for you no: to run the
schools until you know how much
you have to run the schools on
Each district is now corporation,
and majority Of taxpayers can
have special tax levied and spehd
it on your own schools. This ia the
way Croswell is now running its
schools. 1t hnd some money left over.
Teachers will work cheaper and can
afford it, if you have the money to
pay cash. / he railroad owes $l,lOO
past indebtedness to the school fund.
l Ind to take this off the apportiun.
mcnt, and some of the trustees raketl
me about ii, but it had to be done.
Ii had been elected for four Years.
you would now be paying cash, if the
schools had been stopped. recon
mend that YOU hold back part OF
your apportionment till you cnn get
enough to enable you to pay cash.
Let patrons select teucher worth
$25.0O. You pay $12 81 of this and
let them pay the balance, till you get
SO You can pay cash. There have
been schools run in this county under
brush harbors and umbrellas. We
ought to do better. Schools run in
the winter subject the children to
freezing, and i'll summer we have to
borrow II house. Hold back part of
salary money and make better houses.
We are trying to look after all the
children III the county without r..
spect to any particular ones. Get
good teachers who will teach. There
is difference between school teach.
ers and school keepers.
The board is abused sometime
aaont giving certificates to Mary,
John, and SO on, for they were too
young. Anybody who answers the
questions is entitled to the certificate,
But you are free to employ who you
please. 1t is your duty to visit schools
and stay there and see how they are
Carried on, if you have to take wet
day for it. Primary schools ore diff
ferent now from what they were when
we were in school. Children are nd
vanced faster now. We have better
methods. I asked a teacher pncs for
his program. He had about sixty
pupils: He said he had no program.
l wondered how this was. He said
he carried it i'll his head. Inquiry
showed one Of the pupils had beeu
there two days without recitin..
The Stnte has made some changes Il,
the administration of the school law
The whole responsibility is now
thrown on you. The public school is
the cheapest and best method of edu-
eating the children. 1t costs about
htty cents permonth. Private schools
cannot be run this cheap. l want
you to locate your co)ored schools on
soon as possible and notify me. The
public money will be appvrtioncd to
districts, not townships, on last years
reports We cannot got things rs
we want them light ut tho start; but
things will run smooth after while.
II any district levies special tax, the
INK payers Gun designate whether the
AK shall be fur white or colon ed
schools. Some districts will have no
,,lored school Where there are not
colored children in district,
hose in three may he put in one and
80 returned.
The mountain section was not MI
aid off by the surveyor, because ia.
ture hnd already laid it off, and ON
account of the hills and mountains,
could not be improved on The board
adopted the lines already drawn"
Rev. Nj. l.. Jones said there was com.
pluint about the line between his dis.
trict aud Hazel. The commissioner
said that was left for the people t.,
settle themselves. No 40 is Grove
district I don't know the area, but
suppose it is near the size of an ordi.
nary township. All the children 20
to the same school. People who have
made their returns can go to the au-
ditor and have tnem changed to an
other district.
In answer to q question by 8. II.
Brown, it was stated TINT trustees
could use all the money for the dis.
trict for building purposes, but the
commissioner advised against that, as
apportionment is according to enroll
ment of pupils between the agvs OF
six and twenty-one A child can onl,
draw money once and that in his own
district. If he goes into another dis
trict he will have to pay, unless by
special arrangement for transfer O.
both pupi! and money. The childre,
in each district are under the con
troll Of the trustees. II yonr schoo
is small, it will be good plan to re
ceive pupils from othe: districts, il
their pay is transferred. Trustee.
can use their discretion in transferring
pupils from one district to another, al
was stated in answer to n uuestinr