Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-03-24
school Expenditures.

AS Mr.. Hobart seems to think that his
inquiry has as yet been unanswered,
will try to explain the matters referred tC
so that he can understand 1t, for | thinh
the others present at town meeting under
stood it at that time.
His "bomb," as be terms 1t, IL aimed al
me, as the circumstances under which ht
tried to fire IL would seem to indicate, hac
the opposite effect from the apparent in
tention, because, instead OF hosting his
friend into office II left him In "innocu-
GUS desuetude" in the face OF the fact that
had told everybody that ! did not wish
to be director any longer and should moi
have accepted the office II be had not fired
his so-called bomb.
The S255 spoken OF was expended In
1892 in finishing on the upper story OF the
schoolho use so that we could have two
schools at the Center instead of one
which has been the case since that time
and at the same time district No. 20 was
discontinued, his friend being then q
member of the school board.
About moving the schoolhouse in dis
trict No. 2, II had been talked OF for sew
eral years as far back as 1882. Mr.. Grow,
then superintendent of schools, said:-
"But il can never be pleasant school
room while adjoining barn. yard on one
side and horse shed on the other. 10
winter IL will do but In summer and fall II
is neither healthy nor pleasant" While
perhaps IL we had expected It would cost
as much as It did we might not have
moved 1t, yet we did what we thought
was ripht and for the best interests of the
schools under our care and are content to
let the matter drop where 1t stands, feel
iug that we have a good substantial
schoolhouse and one of which the towo
need not be ashamed.
Now as to the money paid the normal
school supervisors, or the f467 which
trt ubles my friend so much. We agreed
to furnish schoolhouse, books, (the same
as IN other districts), fuel, and pay them
the sum OF s467. one-haIf In October and
the balance in April. For the two school
years previous to the present, the average
cost al the same items, now paid for oy
supervisors, for these schools was $i66 81.
The supervisors agreed to maintain not
less than "a weeks OF school In each de-
partment, 1--WE had had 20 weeks), furnish
a competent janitor and also practice
paper, tablets, ink, crayons, pencils, eras-
ers, text books for supplementary work
and such other appliances for teaching as
would not ordinarily be furnished by
school boards. It would seem that Mr..
Hobart was afraid thatswe were paying
money to the normal school supervisors
and getting nothing back, but through
the Kindness OF Mr.. Conant | am able to
give the following figures as the cost OF
the schools under the present manage
wages, $3.50; janitor. $50;
incidentals, about s106; or a total OF 1855.
It will be seen that the schools cost more
than twice as much as we pay. Who Is
receiving the benefit, the town or Normal
school
He says, the current expenses OF dis
trict No. 2, aside from the item of 1893 so,
are $643 05. He must know that he has
figured the cost for more than one year,
as be can see by the report that we had
charge OF the schools in the spring at
cost OF s112 for teachers. Or the s643.05
represents the cost of the schools for the
eight weeks we had charge OF them and
the "a weeks under the supervisors, ~
weeks in all.
In regard to district No. 10, in 1887 the
of this district presented to
the directors petition, signed by nearly
all, IL not all, OF those who had children,
them not to maintain school
in the stone schoolhouse, but send the
scholars to the Graded school, which was
done, and it has gone on the same since
although the directors have at several
times talked about repairing the house
and again having a school there. But