The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-11-11
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Who Is Responsible:-Who IS re-
psPEa No. 10.
BY PROS. WILLIAM II. HAND.

GpoDSt5ie Tor our lll-eQulpps0 nlso
schools, with their short inefficient
course OF study. their lack OF teach
ers to do the work, and the relatively
SMALL number OF pupils therein?
The answer is. the superinSenden-a
and principals. the people. and the
colleges.
The superinrendents and princl-
pals are rightly looked to by the
people for leadership in building ''e
the high schools. They are large-y
responsible for the educational ideas
Of their communities, and the attI-
tu6e OF the people toward high
schools. II the course OF study IS
oyercrowded with subjects. or IS
scrappy in its material, they alone
are responsible Many high schoo:
without map, a chart, globe, ~
ary othe. Necessary apparatus, m!ghE
have at leas. few such th1nss
bought with the money spent on %
called commencement, baccaianre4'>-
addresses. Invitations. programs, rue
books, etc. Moreover, many poE
and many girl not III the hlsh
school would be there, i they hai
only q few encouraging words s2oHe''
20 them. Il IS TO be feared that th2
public high school teacher is no,
always mindful OF the pupils who ar
out Of school but ought TO be n
school. Finally, many high schoe-.
Is running n tut, because taS
prsncics! is running IN one.
The people are en2hat!cal!y u
blame for not supporting their hlss
schools. They put neither tneH
money nor their children IN them.
Throughout the State, in places cas-
/ilv pointed out, are high school,
scarcely worthy Of the name. ou
which might be made within nv
wears to rank righ, II the people i:
those places were only willing to usS
little common sense business sagac,
ity. Why a sensible man will refus-
to help his home high school by pa,
ronizing it, but instead will he.!
to maintain one away from home ~
sending his children there, IS one O.
the strangest things in life. He ge'S
no better advantages for his o"i
children, and refuses to help n:
neighbor at home who is unable t
send his children from home. Henc'
the home high schools iags or oaeS
It costs today $3.50 to send q pup
wear to school away from home
WHY will four men thoroughly samli
lar with the laws Of business co
operstion take their sons and daugA
ters from their own high school, I
eerd them away at al expense 9
$1,000 a. year? Why will they nc
nut even half that money 10 IL
home school. thereby keeping the
money and their children at hons
ana at the same time when the chi.
6ren need parental attention?
Holly Hill had last year a goo
swo-year high school taught by o.
teacher. The school had l3 pup
in the 9Th grade, and in the So
This year the people attempted I
organize a high school 18th 7"
teachers and 25 pupils. This wou:
entitle the school to enough Sta
aid to employ the second teache
at $50 a month The undertaEE
had to be abandoned. because ii
Eve pupils in last years 9Th s!aG
could not be held in the school, mos
of them going oS-to college.
Ridgeway last year asked Stat
aid for her high school. receive
s41o, and barely had the require
number Of pupils. The schoo! hs
Il pupils in the Sth grade, and !
IN the eth. This year six OF tnos
pupils have been sent away froi
Ridgeway to school. The place
paving $3.50 for two high schoc
teachers, and is asking the State t
pay part OF that. while the scfoc
at this writing has not enrolled II
required 25 pupils.
Jonesv;lle had last year IA pupil
in the 9Th grade. and n the I'VE
Seven OF those pupils have this sea
son been sent TO college and TWO I
preparatory schools, and the 1cGs
school opened with 9 pupils IN n
eth grade, and in the 10th, and a
effort OF the principal to add the l / !
grade was defeated. These nine pp
p!ls away from home will cost To
paoole Of that community owe
$4,000 this year, yet they are tooa
paving their own three high schoc
teachers a cor. bined salary or Sl,I.:
and getting part Of that from n
State. Can these people expect I
maintain a high school? OF cours
the entire community must not 0
held responsible for this folly,
the pupils unable to go OF to schoo
must not be forgot.
Central is struggling to estaohs
high school; it needs money an
pupils, vet three OF her last year
high school pupils were sent ava.
this season.
Batesburg attempted to aid n
zl1h grade this year, but four 9
last years Eve pupils in the iot:
grade left for college, and the e1
fort was defeated.
Anderson. one OF the four place
last year With a four-year publ:
high school, mas had to abandon 1t
11th grade, although 12 Of her las
years 10th grade are OF at college
Five from the 9th grade and seTe;
from the 9Th grade are-at college
These Il pupils are costing the pee
ple OF Anderson $4,000 this year
this year Anderson is paving ne
er..re high school teaching Sorc
less than $4,000.
Niney-six added the 18th gr;a
this year. kept pupils out OF las
wears 10th grade. sent 9 out OF tn