The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-02-06
For BGttcp..ScIlOoIs.

For rBcttcrsSchooIs.
| The Convention of County |
School Commissioners convened
Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock.
Nineteen Commissioners wore
present. The report of tho COM
mittoo was road and adopted. In
tho afternoon q committee Cf the |
commissioners mot with tho COM
mittee on education and public !
schools from the Senate and |
House and adopted tho following
resolutions, urging that they DO
adopted
To the Honorable Speaker and
Gentlemen of tho House of |
| Represc ntatlvcs of tho State of
South Carolina.
Gentlemen: AS the Legislature
is now discussing tho educational
bill, wo, tho School Commissioners
Of tho State in convea alton assom-
blcd, ,rocognizing tho fact that
there is much misunderstanding
and misconstruction in regard to
tho Intelligence required in a
school commissioner and the
amount Of work necessary in the
discharge Of his dutios, respect
fully present tho following for
lyour consideration:
| The minimum amount of work
necessary to discharge the duties Of
school commissioner in ono Of tho
smallest counties Of tho State is
as follows, to wit:
l Writing and copying 345 lottors
: and cards, 7 days; approving and
entoring on book, 4GS claims, 8
days; adding and balancing books
onco month, ~ days; every Sat.
s urday in Office, So days; oxamina.
O tions, 4 days; issuing toachcrs
v certificates and minutes, days;
meetings of Board of Examiners,
S days; ordering, remitting fol
II and delivering books, 81 days; re.
l. ports to Judges, and State Supcr-
Is indont Of Education, IS days;
"a conference with trustees and pro.
:. pie: 24 days; visiting 100 schools
IS days; Total, 259 days.
o' In reality this Office was opcl
m every day oXcopt when tho schoo
is commissioner was sick or visiting
schools and thoro is Il large
- amount of business which cannot
~ be mentioned or the number OF
IL days correctly ascrrtainod. Thor,
d. is therefore Il good yoar's work fol
s. any intollclgont and industrious
rs man. Tho fact is, the moro intol.
,o llgcnt and cuorgotic tho school
" commissioner, tho moro work he
l. will find to do.
lg We therefore respectfully sug-
D. gest that the Office Of school com
H. missioner or superintendent DO TO-
tanned. In cvory business thorc
should be somo hoad, and this is
'l especially necessary in business
;h III which the duties arc so varied
co in which there is so much monoy
ot to be dlsbursod and accounted for,
-, in which tho trustees often disa-
q" groe among themselves and the
10 people with tho trustees and in
n which tho school commissioner is
tho bookkeopcr for tho trustcos.
rv That the salaries of those officer
- be increased SO that it will not be
" necessary for them to divide thoir
al tlmo by engaging in other business
s. TO make u support; and call your
10 attention to tho fact that in many
counties the salary is SO small as
practically to exclude mon of in
tolligence and thrift from holding
is this Office.
If That the school commissioner
!, be elected rs heretofore by the
>N people, tho appointivo system
es tonding to the concentration pow
k. er of ono person.
III That tho clause making thirty
7 days the basis of the enrolment
= be amondod to not less than one
40 day or moro than ton days. If
1e thirty dnys were tho basis tho
I'd teacher could not flo his report at
d. the end Of the month, as provided
"a for in tho bill, or draw any pay at
~ the ond of that month, as the
W school month is composed Of
IT twenty days and would lose pay
W mont for pupils who had attend
l. cd twenty-eight or twenty-nine
! days.
= We aro fully aware that many
10 will say that self interest is the
j. main spring of our action but we
respectfully submit tkat in order
~ to understand any business it is
'. necessary to consult with those
o who have charge of the details.
o G. w. HEARsEY, Chairman.
0 II. @. ROBINSON, Secretary.
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