The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-09-08
HELPING THE BOARD.

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sentatves who will act
HELPING THE BOARD.
We call the especial attention Of the
county superintendents and high school,
principals to the fact that Section 38 OF
the Buchanan bill not only vests in the
Board of Control the authority to fix a
uniform course Of study for the public
schools Of the State, but makes it OBJ
ligatory upon it to do 80. This section
reads as follows italics ours:
Section 38. That the said Board of
Control are hereby authorized and en-
powered TO provide a system and course
answers for all public high schools in
the State, and that no pupil shall be dd-
mitfed To said high schools, or be dd-
UaHCed To ann successive grade therein,
or shall be permitted to enter ann inSti-
tuition created or maintained by this act
until such examinations hare been had,
and the result of said examinations have
been approved by the said Board Of
Control in each instance and certificate
of admission or advancement by said
Board Of Control, etc.
If this section is carried out, CD no
pupil can pass from one grade to an
other in the high school until he has
passed a written examination on list
of questions ("dnd dHsiUeTs'D furn-
ished by the Board of Control and has
obtained from the Board certificate
Of advancement" (2) no pupil can
be admitted TO the high school until he
has passed such an examination and re
ceived such certificate of admission. -
School Exponent.
Our esteemed contemporary appears
to be somewhat "be mixed" az to the
language quoted Do not the words
land answers merely describe the kind
of System and course Of written exam
nations" which the board is author
lied and empowered not command
ed to provide? They surely cannot
mean, as the Exponent would appear to
imply, that the board shall provide the
answers
Note, also, that the statement Of the
Exponent that the law "makes it OBJ
ligatory" on the board to provide the
system is not borne out by the language
Of the act, which is that the board is
simply authorized and empowered"
Anyway, we are quite willing to per-
nit the board to interpret the provis-
ions Of the law without our assistance,
and wait for some covert act, " on its
part before we tender our advice.
Among the instances which have al
ready been made public of crook edness
in the public service of the State, we
have that Of one who occupied position
of great trust and confidence, and who
has been accused, under oath, of using
that position to acquire unlawful gain,
which accusation has never yet been
satisfactorily denied; and although this
person no longer occupies the position he
had disgraced, he left it with fulsome
certificate of good character, and was
Immediately employed in another branch
Of the public service. Does this look
like an effort to purge the public ser
vice of unworthy elements?
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Every dollar Of public money that is
wilfully spent unnecessarily in the hire
Of help that Ia not needed, or supplies
bought just to help some political heeler
along, Is misapphed and wrongfully
used money, deliberately taken from
the now very heavily tax burdened
public, and some departments at the
State-house now have employees until
they almost fall over each other. Quo
tation: What does Collins expect to
gain by calling public attention to such
matters; don't he know the money Is
spent in Tallahassee and we are in four
yearsH" -
See Collins for Neat Job Printing.