The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-08-07
THE W00OF0RO SCHOOL
QUESTION FURTHER DISCUSSED

To The Free Lane:
In your Tuesdays paper is an article
irom Milford signed by John Washing
ton, superintendent OF schools OF Caro-
hae county. Lest some Of the "lacts"
therein be unloading beg you to pub
,sh lew more facts The isct that
Noodiord school enrolled % scholars
session l9O7-0S aud 1905 90 respective
', and an aversgs daily attendance OF
/ 1, should have nothing to DO with the
building OF one-rOom schoolhouse at
oodiord this session. Within the last
twelve months we have had to locate
near Woodiord eight families, and more
have bought their homes and will move
IN later Those who ara already here
all have children To go to school aud will
send them To a Woodiord school but
VIII not allow their children 20 walk
tue distance from thr q to four miles to
reach duiney's school. Can you blame
them? Small children cannot do Il.
We we're promised at the time aud for
Two years aiser the levy was raised that
we should have school at Woodford
out oil this Increase, and when the aues-
tlon of "a Woodiord school came up the
third time We got another promise and
that was, II We would get our super
visors Go raise the levy another 3 cents
that We should have school this ses.
sion. 19O9-1O.
Now II the fret two promises were not
inlhlled how could we depend on the
third one?
The very fact that they (the school
board did not carry out their promise
no doubt had II weights with our super
visor In reducing the levy. We have no
doubt had we been given the school as
promised that our supervisor would have
leit the levy remain at least as It was
when he took the office. On Saturday,
July 3. 1909. the Port Royal district
school board met some of the patrons.
etc, and made the following PROPOSE
ton, VIZ. AT the present district school
levy of 10 cents the board will have
about $500 that can be used In erecting
school houses Our superintendent's
salary has been raised this year and IL
takes about $500 more money to pay Il
with. To our minds Il looks this way.
Now, you get your supervisor TO raise
the levy cents more and that will mean
about $500, and then can get my sal
ary. and you will get a school bulldog
at Moodiotd without any cost TO you,
but II you don't do this | Will have to
get my salary, and you will 20 without
your school ltis "a fact that the die
tr'ct school levy was raised for two
years, and Il matters not whether Il
was done by "a petition, a vote, or by
whom 1t was raised. The TACT that
e., $50 was spent 80 cur district for
school buildings does not remedy our
case ore particle.
For twenty or more years there has
been n public school within one and a
hall mile OF WoodioTd Fact: We have
none at NoodiJrd today. and the very
iact TINT We have had school for a
number OF years Is no excuse that we
shall now these late years be deprived OF
Two years ago this school was moved
TO Guiueys within two miles and a half
OF Noodiord,' Fact: You can only
reach Guineys by walking on the rail
road track In two miles and q half from
WoOdiord
The main county road, the only road
Tor our children, would be at least three
miles, and then too she school house at
Guineys Is nearly a half mile beyond the
station, aud rear the SpotsylvRnia
county line. while most Of the children
that would attend the Woodiord school
live more than four miles from Guineys.
Why not give US a school building this
ct'cAeA ohN ict Nut OlucI lOlub knouuee
Pond mentioned wait until next ses-
sion, in as much as We have had so many
fair promises?
Personally Will give $40 toward the
Woodiord school bnilding and according
10 the position We hold there are ,thers
Ia Woodiord neighborhood who will do
the same. We are now ready, and have
been for the last twelve months, to give
between $4,000 and $4,000 towards
the building Of this school
Ia closing we would like to ask our
Su9t. the same questions that he asks Ne.
let. How many children he has to be
educated3 2nd. How much be has given
towards the WoOdfOrd school, or any
other school IN the county2 3rd How
many times be has ever visited the
Woodford school since his appointment
to the Office Of Superintendent
"Kicker."
Woodiord, Va, August 4th. 1903.