The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-11-29
SCHOOL BOARD.
No Reduction IN Lease Price for
LUls to Be Nsade.--Appllcattsus
tsr Transportation Of Children
to School rlade.

Urges Granting Of Same. Llberai
Donation 60 Scott School by
Mr.. Alcide Judice.
Lafayette. La. Nov. D, 196.-At a
oslled meeting of the Parish School
Board all members were present ex-
0ept A. D. VerOt and Alex Del
hOmme, Sr.
Taking up the application of pros
|oective lessees of school lands for a
|,r e u c I'll on of the rate fixed
=at previous meeting, the
Board decided that the rent asked was
reasonable: that in justice to those
who have already leased, and in JUS
|tice to the school children of the par
ish no reduction from price fixed could
be made.
Messrs. Ben Avant and Lat Tarver,
OF the second ward, made application
for the transportation of their children
from Bethel church to the Burke
school.
Messrs. Breaux and Bertrand, :rus-
tees of the Bertrand school, requested
that the Board transport the advanc-
ed classes of the school to Lafayette
instead of appointing an additional
teacher needed for their school. They
offered to pay 2-5 of the expenses in
.curred in the transportation of the
.children.
Application was also made by the
trustees of the Sicily school for the
transportation of the children of that
school to the Carencro school.
Before considering these applica-
MOns the Board asked the superin-
.tendent to express his opinion on the
made for transportation
.Supt. Alleman answered that while
transportation of children, as q result
of consolidation of weak schools, is q
comparatively Few question in the
South and particularly in louisiana,
it has been successfully practiced in
Massachusetts for nearly forty year S:
and when it is considered that Massa-
chusetts is . leading State education
ally and commercially, with an illit-
eracy of one out of every thousand as
compared with four hundred and forty
out OF thousand in some parishes of
Louisiana, there could be no doubt of
the saving common sense in adopting
this plan which is the only means of
giving country children an education
worth while. He said that the prob
lem for the Parish School Board to
solve is to educate the children of La
fayette parish living in the country
and that judiciOus consolidation with |
transportation is the only way to do
1t. he quoted from statements made |
by county superintendents in the |
South showing the following results
of consolidation with transportation:
l. It lengthens the term.
2. 1t improves the attendance.
). 1t improves the teaching force
by paying better salaries.
4. 1t enables School Boards to
build comfortable and attractive
school houses.
5. It makes it possible to grade the
school work, thus enabling the child
TO make three or four times as much
progress in their studies.
q. Best OF all it reduces the cost
and at the same time multiplles re-
fold.
No intelligent farmer makes hay
now adays with a scythe blade and
The time is coming when no school
will tolerate the absolute
waste of the child's time in q school
Of four to six grades in charge Of one!
teacher. The superintendent showed
hat granting the requests of the
communities would save SIS per
month to the school fund, save the
of school house at
1900, and at the same time give the
shildren involved three to FIVE times
more opportunity for advancement.
He strongly urged the Board to
furnish the transportation.
On motion of Mr.. Spell. seconded
BY Mr.. Roy, transportation for the
Ihree communities, Sicily, Bertrand,
Ind Bethel was allowed, and the offer
3f the Bertrand community to pay
DO per month for the transportation
0f their children was accepted.
BY Mr.. Judice: Resolved that the
be authorized to rent
ands ct rates fixed by the Board.
Carried.
Considering the application of the
member of the first ward for aid for
digging . canal near the school
section of that ward, the secretary
vas requested to say that while the
Board is heartily in favor Of helping
n this necessary work the inadequate
revenues for the present year viii not
permit it.
Messrs. Roy and Alleman, COM
nittes appointed to wait on Town
Council and Police Jury reported
hat the Town Council had appro-
priated $500 and promised to give
more later II possible.
The Police Jury was requested to
.pproprists o1200O, at increase of
1900 over last yesr, to enable the
Board 70 have . session of nine
months. The increase In the teachingj
,orpe apd attendance was given in