The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-09-26
present Lafayette parish is serving as


a sort of training school for teachers
for other parishes: teachers come here,
serve their apprenticeship In the
schOOlrOOm. attend the teachers meet
ings and conventions and Just as soon
as they become proficient they are Of
fered better salaries and leave. There
is a certain neighbOring parish which
makes a practice of securing some OF
our best teachers each year. Lafayette
parish does not fix teachers salaries:
that is a question of supply and de-
mand, just as the price of cotton is,
and everybody knows that if the best
cotton brings ten cents on the open
market. eight cents will purchase a
very inferior quality, comparatively.
So. if the best grade teachers are COM
handing $50 per month in Louisiana
and the South today. the parish which
pays $50 can 10 obtain the best teach
ers. The best teachers should not be
too good for the children of this par
ish, and it is encouraging to see that
the people of the parish as a whole
have come to realize the vast differ
ence between a teacher who teaches
and a teacher who merely keeps school
and draws a monthly warrant. AS a
~ vi LhtS appreciation III Tile ser
vices of good teachers | can cite nu-
merOuS instances where communities.
town and rural, are Supplementing
salaries paid by the parish in order to
retain competent teachers. Again,
several committees have recently APP
peared before this School Board and
asked that they be given shorter terms
if necessary, but the best teachers. 1t
was a wise father who said ''WhO is
elected governor of my State is a mat
ter of relatively little concern to me,
but who is the teacher of my boy is a
matter of great concern to me-"
In connection with teachers salaries
and as an additional proof that the
teachers pay in Lafayette is easily
within the mark of economical admin
istratiOn, | wish to submit the follow
ing statistics showing the cost of edu-
eating a child IN this parish:
TOWN SCHOOLS.
Lafayette, Broussard, Carencro,
Scott and YOungsville.)
Cost per pupil per month, on
enrolment. ..................$1 55
Cost of Pupil per month, on at
tendance. l 80
IN DETAIL: LAFAYETTE SCHOOL.
Cost per pupil, on enrolment. Isl 33
Cost OF pupil on attendance $50. / IS
Broussard School,
Cost per pupil on enrolment. .S1.7 I
Cost per pupil on attendance. 2.O4
CarencrO School,
Cost per pupil on enrolment. 80. LAG
Cost per pupil on attendance. 1.S4
Scott School,
Cost per pupil on enrolment. 1.53
Cost per pupil on attendance. LIS
YOungsville School,
Cost per pupil on enrolment. 1.66
Cost per pupil on attendance. 1872
BrOussard, the most expensive of
town schools, costs on an average
on attendance S2.O4; LAFAYETTE, the
least expensive of the town schools,
per pupil actually attending.
s1.46. No further comment is needed
on this point.
Supt. 0. j. Kern, of Winnebago
County, Illinois, has a national repu-
'ation as a school supervisor and ad-
and by way of comparison
[ wish to quote from his last annual
(Annual 1905, Page 5.)
School No. 81, cost per child on
enrolment. ...s2.s4
cost per child on attendance. All
School No. III, cost per pupil on
enrolment ........... ..:....., 4.57
Cost per pupil on attendance. 500
school No. 80, cost per pupil on
enrolment ................... 3.25
COST per pupil on attendance. -. 7.O5
etc., etc.
An examination of the entire report
will show that the cost per pupil on
in Winnebago county
'anges from 49, 80 to So. 80, from three
Q four times the cost in Lafayette.
70 make education here as expensive
IS it is in Winnebago county we
Tould have to pay our teachers $3.50
o 5000 per month.
.URAL SCHOOLS, LAFAYETTE PARISH.
COST per pupil on enrolment. 49,. 81. so
,ost per pupil On attendance ...1.85
COLORED SCHOOLS.
,ost per pupil on enrollment..,.. IS
per pupil on attendance. .92
Report of expenditures for all
chool purposes. July, 1866, to July /,
RECEIPTS, GENERAL FUND. j
Balance on hand, July 1905. s. 2O24 Al
,urrent school Fundamentally II !
once Jury.................. 5000 90 t
appropriation. $500 90 ,
lent, school lands 2S45 90
ines and fOrfeitures.. $40 90 i
1tefeSt on 10th SectionL Lands ia So I
III other sources. $500. 1888 10 /
Total................ ... $36955 50 t
DISBURSEMENTS, GENERAL FUND. 9
$685. OBJ 10 >
uperintendent's salary. 1901 90 t