The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-07-01
Ozark and the home team met, result
ing in score of II to Is in favor of
Ozark.

ozark and the nome team met, result
ing in a score of II to Is in favor of
Ozark.
Pay four Money, Take Your Choice.
The School law recently enacted by
the General Assembly for the govern
ment and regulation of the common
schools of the State, is deserving OF
immediate and serious consideration by
tie citizens of our town and commune
ty, especially that feature Of it which
relates to the establishment of high
schools by the county board of educa-
ton.
1t provides that within two years af-
ter it's passage there shall be establish
ed by said board of each county one or
more high schools of the first-class, and
by first-class is meant school which
maintains four year course of study
prepared by the State Board of Educa-
ton.
If such s.eschool already exists in the
county, the county board may make ar
rangements with it. This arrangement,
however, can not be made with a de-
nominational school, and hence our high
schools here can not be considered. The
high school contemplated by the law is
one in which children completing the
branches as now taught in the public
schools can have free tuition for more
advanced studies.
The law provides that the Board of
education of the county may unite with
the governing authority of any town or
county for the purpose of establishing
a high school for the joint use of the
town and county. The first high school
to be established in the county shall be
located at the county seat, provided
there is not already existing in the
county seat high school of the re-
quired grade.
In addition to the duty of establishing
q high school in the county, or making
terms with one already existing, the
county board of education has power to
purchase, lease or rent school sites, to
build and repair school houses, purchase
maps, globes, charts, school furniture,
or other apparatus necessary for the
schools of the county. These expenses
are met by tax of not exceeding
twenty cents on each hundred dollars
of assessed valuation of property in the
county, and caputation tax not exceed
ing one dollar.
But, it is provided that no tax for
school purposes shall be levied upon
property in cities or towns maintaining
a first.class system of public schools in
which all grades are already taught to
the satisfaction of the State Board of
Education, nor upon property in graded
common school districts now existing or
that may be established. $3.50
In view of this law, is it not to the
interest of the citizens of Columbia and
vicinity to proceed at once to the es-
adjustments of a graded common
school, providing at the same time for
a high school course adequate to the
demands of the whole county? Willnot
this also be best for the county? If
such school is established, the money
raised by taxation within the boundary,
of the district will be appropriated for
the school within the designated boun-
Diary, and it will be exempt from the
county tax provided the district assess
ment is as high as twenty cents on the
hundred dollars.
Under this arrangement the two pub
lie schools would be Incorporated into
the graded school, and the money now
paid for their maintenance would go
towards the support of the graded
school.
If such school were established up
on basis broad enough to give the
high school course to children in the
county, it would be to the interest of
the county to make such an arrange.
ment with the authorities of the school
that children from the country COM
plotting the rural school COURSE, could
take the high school course in this
school established, and thus meet the.
requirments of the law. In this way
the county outside of the graded dis
trict would aid the school, and at the
same time avoid the necessity for an
other school with the expenses incident
to its establishment and maintenance.
For the maintenance of the school
here, we would have the school money
which now goes to the two common
schools in town, the special tax as it
may be voted, such sum as might be
received from the county board of edu-
cation for the tuition of children resid-
ing outside of the graded school dis
trict and others outside of the school
age who might attend. 1t is not now
a question whether or not we shall be