The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-02
The Public Schools.

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the following for the consideration OF The
Trustees of the free common schools and
others having control Of the educational
interest OF Anderson County:
Tue District Trustees Of blank School
District employ u teacher ut Il salary Of
$780, month. The community in which
tie school is located has u large school
population. On the border OF the district
a smnll handful of pupils attend a small
neiIhbor'ng school in All adjoining dis
trio, When the teacher of the school in
blank district makos ant he: report, ii
appears thnt there has heen an attend. nce
during the month Of SEQ days. or Il daily
averag" of 43 scholars Oar, of tho free
schrol fund there has been paid therefore,
Tor The month, 20 cents per scholar. or II
per diem OF 3! cents. When The report OF
the teacher Of the sunll sch oil in the adj
.lacvut district il submitted tn the True.
tees OF blank School Distr ct, ttcy dictate
That, in %.ln'tirs, they cannot DAY more
than a per diem Of :! cents Oh ihA ,rnn.-
icrrtd scholars s u'c IL do 81 would haa
discrimination in favor uflne! mttrr soh.ni.
We see that tho pay .t the (, ac.irr in ih.
$500 ~ - WIZ lItGtI - Al
variable quantity, going down in proper
ton ~ the number cf scholars increase IN
the school ia blank School District 'rhc
teacher ofthe email school roels that IN The
latter Gaze OF receiving a per diem Of only
81 cents, an Injustice has II, zen dor" and
desires to nppo.l, but is me. with the OIL
~.l"ci;on ihnt the las empowers THE iDonl
Boards Gf Trustees of School District. 10
employ teachers and Ia fix ilrir salaries.
and that they hay" 'ul! jurisdiction ~ All
matter, l-rfniniuy 10 iiin public s%ciiooie,
the only restriction being TINT they EN-
ploy tamcherA holding certificates from the
County i}onrd OF j. :ucniinn. Somoihing
like the above has actually happened.
Now, let us suppose q case involving
the same principle:
There is a school district with n territory
sufficiently extansive aud Il school puru-
lsiion sufficiently large 81 locate iva
schools i'll different parts of the district.
Tho two communities in which the schools
are located are about equal in school popn.
intiop, and equally alive to,the importance
Of ed in their midst. The Trustees
employ teachers for these respecti.e
%scnoOls, which We shall call school No. !
and school Mo- The teachers emp o,.d
for each school are both alike efficient,
and hold 81 license OF the same grade In
school No l every thing In favorable !;
there ~ a total enrolment Of TO pupils and
there IL an ACREAGE daily attendance Of A..
In school No. things are not so favoru-
BILE; an epidemic OF whorping couch fills
on tho community, consequently the en-
roilmeDt and the %attendanco at school il
not 80 large. There is An enrolment of
40 pupils, and an average attendance of 15
pupils. The Trusteee, in EMPLOYING these
teachers, inform them that their e~ervices
ere not worth mere than $2I, and that In
no event shall either OF than receive aii
amount greater Than S?5; but The salnry
of one Of them must be matter of con-
tingency. and muet depend On the III
her " rcholars attending the larger school
When the s%ervices OF hnth teachers hive
been rendered and they have made their
respective reports, the Trustees in tho
teacher or the smaller school tina it wonId
net be equitable and right to pay her 925
while the one with an average of As pupils
received only 325. Although shs had pnt
in full time and had done hard. faithful.
earnest work 1t would be a matter of dir.
elimination ifthey weIo to my her a per
diem Of s cents. while the teacher In school
No. ! received only a little over 81 cents
per day. Therefore. an a matter OF justice,
they pay the teacher OF school No. 1926,
and the teacher OF No. 2 q little Iess than
$14. In estimating work OF any kind the
first thing we do Is to establish a standard
or unit OF measure or value; otherwise We
could form no just estimate of the work.
The Boards OF Truatets for the public
schools of Anderson G0unty, as II rulo, en-
p!oy teachers holding a first grade license
at a salary of $25 IN fixing this salary
they ARC governed by "A standard. !!.his
wore iiot the case there would no great
latitude for Partially and favoritis,n on
the one hand or injustice and oppression
m the Other, for a teacher with 10 pnpils
might receive $50 and a teacher OF 80 pu-
| pits might receive considerably less than
$50. In arriving at THE standard, We con-
ceive they would proceed in tbia way
They would estimate that al average OF -
pupils wou!d be a good school, and that
the services OF q teacher holding n first
grade license teaching such school are
worth At least S25 and his wonld make
tuitinn worth 6 cents per diem up TO the
limit OF % scholars at least. II tuition in
an average chool is worth 3 cents n day
on tho scholar. then a teacher holding n
first grade license and teaching q school
oflees thnn 25 scholars, ought To receive 2
| per diem Of at least > cents.
LET ,s have "A full, free. and general ex
preston OF opinion on the above subject
by tho public Trustees and school officers
of the County NJ. y. MITCHELL
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