The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-03-26
NO SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION.
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Correspondence Baltimore San.
MeSsrs. Editors In your issue of March 18th
~. B. L." of Cockeysville. gives many points in
favor of consolidated schools. They are exactly
those which the educators of the country and
others directly or indirectly interested in the
schools have proclaimed. If u. B. L." can as
sure us that he is mere farmer and parent,
viewing the question from the standpoint of the
farmer taxpayer, humanitarian and patriot, he
might add some weight to his letter.
the consolidated school question That educators
and those interested are on one slde OF It and
parents are on the other. One little fact will
serve to prove this:
Indiana is one of the States ~. B. L." mem
tions as having found the consolidated schools
such blessings. Now, farmers paper of that
State having some 100000 subscribers recently
put the question to its readers and asked for
their replies. Replies came from fathers and
mothers in that and other States and everyone
of them was pregnant with disgust and disap-
pointment over the consolidated schools. An
educator or two, of course, chmed in the defense.
tits an imposition upon the people at large to
allow any interested class of persons to authori-
tatively proclaim the merits of thing, which,
in its true inwardness, is repugnant to those
upon whom it falls. Educators are too much of
the makeup of the Quack medicine men, who
would accomplish some little temporary benefit,
to be Offset by larger harm following.
Thus New York city has of late boosted of its
compulsory education law and OF its suppression
of child labor, while last year in that city just
60 463 families were evicted for the non-payment
of rent. That is how the education that Is prom
actually uproots the home. Between the chill
dren that are educated away from work and
those that are not allowed to work when they
want to we see fearful result in New York just
in this one line of eviction alone.
What compulsory education Is doing CONSOLE
dated schools are also doing. Both are forcing
upon the people scores of ills following their
alleged blessings, yet in the school reports and
in the press communications of the educators
not vestige of these ills is apparent and the
public is sought to be carried along as from pin
nacle to pinnacle in ecstacy on seraphic WINGS.
How much consolidated schools have blessed
Indiana is further shown in the actual lament
now going up all over that State over the de-
population of the farms. The boys and girls
have been so stimulated by the artificial herding
into yearning for constant crowd that 1mme-
diately upon finishing their schooling they de-
sert the farms and betake themselves to the
cities. Even the educators of Indiana are alarm
ed over this new problem and they are vainly
proposing drastic measures to solve it. Press
and pulpit acknowledge also that the State has
staring 1t in the face the fate of New England,
with its abandoned farms.
Thus both the people of our largest munich
palities and our most thrifty agricultural sec
lions are realizing in manifold ways the results
of an unwise education, and it should be the
province of the entire South to be warned by
the evil results in the East, North and West
rather than be deceived by the specious and
one-sided pleas of the educators and others self
interested only. RURAL PARENT.