The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
To the qualified voters:

10 the quaIlneo voters:
(1) Are you REALLY in favor of
ward schools, or only ''per Sc" in ia
vor of them?
(2l If you are opposed to ward
schools, it is because you live near
enough to Park school TO send
your children there, or is your OPP
position based on what you believe
to be a sound public school policy
that will best meet the needs of all
the people of our city?
Have you ever tried sending a
small child-say eight years old-a
distance of two miles, through the
sleet and snow of winter and the
heat of summer? If you have not,
you should move out into the sub
urbs and few days would convert
you to the ward school system.
go One citizen has been heard to
| say that if those who claimed they
are too far away to patrOnize the
Park school really are too far
away, they should move to town.
The answer is that property from
which the taxes are to be derived
! in the present instance is just as
! far away as they are, and they tan
not pick mp their real estate and
/ bring ii in close to the Park school.
Again, no municipal policy is sound
] hiph docs he gs
! Element Of the suburban territory
/ of such municipality. II is a Sc
/ riOus disadv antage TO any citizen,
who has children to send to school,
to have the school located SO dis
tant from him that his small chill
! dren cannot reach il.
4 If you are able to furnish a
| buggy or other cOuyeyance-with "a
servant To drive TIT does not per-
sonally matter with you II the school
Is two miles away; but if you are SO
fortunately situated, you should IA.
vor ward schools.
- If the School Trustees persist
in having all the schools at one
place, they ought at least, to arrange
the small children whose parents
live too far away for the children to
20 from home.
| 90 There is county seat in the
Western part OF this state which in
corpOrated for school purposes
making independent school district
No. l, in that county. The territory
in this school district was 10 miles
square and the town was in the
center Of il. A special tax was lev
/ led on all property In this territory
and the school trustees used the
money raised to build and maintain
a school in the county seat. The
school was a very efficient" one,
but the citizens who lived in the re-
mote part of the territory compris-
| ing the school district, did not have
a very extensive participation in
said efficiency.
| Efficiency is one thing-a school
near enough for your child to attend
is another and more important thing.
~ The leading citizens of Ennis
a town TO larger, or very little larg-
er than WaxahachIe, after ACTUAL
LY TRYING WARD SCHOOLS say they
are better than a central school.
We have statements TO this effect
from J Baldridge, p. Freeman, J..
Blakey and others.
/ 49, We have letters from the c ~
superintendents of Ennis, Sherman,
Abilene, Waco, Cleburne, Green
Vile and other places, unanimously
and emphaticallv approving the
ward school system, as the only
system adapted to the needs Of the
people. They have tried them and
found them alright. But our Board
Of Trustees and City Councillor at
least the Joint committee OF these
two bodies shave put themselves
sguarely on record as being In favor
of a consolidated school. None of
them very probably has ever tried
the ward system. No reason is as
signed by them, except that ward
schools will cost more. II We grant
this 10 be true, II Is no argument,
FOR THEY ARE WORTH MORE, be-
cause they would prove accessible
to our children, both large and
small.
go They say by concentrating all
the funds on the present campus a
building can be erected which will
be an ornament 10 the town, and
will draw other people here. Such
a building might be an ornament in
so far as Architecture and appearance
would be concerned, but IL would
not draw very many people to the
different additions Of the city, where
nearly all of the settlement of it's
territory is now going on, If it gets
] put bst VIC ara Ia bav@ a HappEaIf-