The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-07
WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT !?
McConnellsbnrg School District Brings
Suit Against the Neighboring Dis
trict Of Ayr. to Recover
TUITION OF HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS.

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which will be watched with some
interest by the school boards IN
other parts of the State.
The facts in'the contention are
about as follows:
For many years citizens of the
districts of Ayr aud Tod living
adjacent to the Borough, have
sent their children into the Bor.
oush schools, for the reason that
1T was more convenient TO do so
than to send them to their own
township schools, which, IN some
cases, were at a greater distance
from their homes; and, also, oe.
cause they could obtain better ia.
clllties IN the Borough schools.
For this privilege, a sum fixed
by the Borough board, was paid
by the citizens sending the pupils;
and thus the matter passed along
from yea to year without any
friction.
But, in 1905, the legislature
passed the following act: THAT
children residing IN school dis
tricts IN which no public high
school Is maintained, may attend
a high school IN some other dis.
trlct, located near their homes;
provided the C hscnt OF the di.
rectors of the district in which
such high school Is located. be
first obtained; the cost of tuition
and school books, viii III shall not
exceed that of the tuition and
school books Of children IN the
same grades or courses in the
district maintaining such high
school, shall be paid to the dis.
trlct receiving such children, out
of the moneys raised by taxation
for public school purposes in the
district IN which said children re.
side; provided, that before ad dmls-
sion to high school, such pupils
shall be examined and found quail
ited for high school work, by the
principal o. such high school"
At the opening of the schools
III 1905, IN compliance with a res
olution passed by the Borough
board, the citizens of the town
ships named who sent pupils into
the Borough high school, paid to
the Borough school hoard the
sum of six dollars, 1t being one.
half the amount the boal d had
fixed per pupil for the term. Lat
er it vas discovered that there
was a law fixing the responsible.
ty for the payment of the money
upon the districts from which the
pupils came, and the Borough
board presented bills to the re-
spective townships for heamount
of the tuition for the term.
II
BY calculation it was found
that the pro rata cost of each pu-
pll IN attendance at the high
school was $2l. AS four pupils
were attending from Tod, and
seven from Ayr, Tod's bill was
$S4 and Ayr's $l47. The school
board of Tod paid their bill
promptly, and the six dollars paid
at the opening of the term was
refunded to the citizens VIII had
paid that sum. The boud of Ayr
refused to pay their bill. Among
other reasoi. s for their refusal to
do so, was. thlt the so.called high
school in McConnellsburg was
not a high school in the strict
sense of the law.
To settle the matter judicially,
the Borough school board sued
the Ayr board tor the amount of
their claim before Justice of the
Peace FL. S. Daniels, of Licking
Creek township, and the hearing
was set for last Saturday after
noon. The defendants not ap
pearing, judgment was given the
Borough by default
The probability is, that as Ayr
did not appear, an appeal will be
taken from the decision OF Squire
Daniels, and the matter settled in
the Court Of Quarter Sessions in
March before Judge Swope.
With reference to whether he
McConnellsburg high school with
llts three years Of graded course