The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25
Where are Your Boy and Girl
Going to School Next Year?

study giving five subjects to each pu-
pill cannot be taught with fewer than
three teachers. Does your school OF
eleven grades measure up to that
standard? If not, it needs your sup
port to make it standard scnool,
and it's pupils are not properly pre-
pared for college.
II. Although we have free
scholarships, free tuition, and other
gratuities at the colleges, the average
boy or girl will need not far from
$3.50 year at college. Four pupils
will cost $1,000 year. Would it not
be the part of wisdom and common
sense to add a teacher at 1000 a
year to your home school, thereby
keeping your money at home, and
your children at home another year?
12. The entire community is Of
ten unwilling to put more than ST.
250 into the salaries of two teachers,
or $1,000 into the salaries Of three
teachers, to teach from thirty to
seventy-five pupils in their home high
school, but four parents out of that
same community are perfectly willing
to pay $1,000 fer only four students
away from home!
13. Some parents seem to think
that their children do better at school
away from home than they would do
at the home school. Doubtless few
do, but in most cases he makes him
self believe so because he wishes to
believe so, and because he does not
see from day to day his child's faults
and shortcomings.
IA. As a school master it would
pay to employ an additional teacher
for your home school; as matter OF
business economy it would pay. BY
sending your children and your
money to other places you aid in
building up schools at other places at
the expense of your own community
and school. BY keeping your chill
dren and your money in your home
school you would soon have school
that would draw pupils and money
to it.
Is. It is foolish and unreasonable
to expect a 40-dollar woman or a Is
dollar man to do as good teaching for
you as the college professor ought to
do. Four parents are willing to pay
$1,000 to have a college professor
teach their children high school SUBJ
jects in the college. Suppose you try
a 1,000-dollar teacher in your home
school instead of the one at $40 a
month.
16. By improving your home
school you not only educate your
children at less expense, but without
expense to yourself you give addi-
tional school advantages to the chill
dren of your neighborhood who are
less able than you to send their chill
dren off to school. Thus you prove
yourself a good citizen.
II. BY making your home school
better and keeping your boys and
girls in it at least one year longer,
you would not injure the colleges
you would greatly benefit them. You
would send them better prepared
students, more mature students, and
more of them. Besides, you would
almost Immediately raise the stan
dard of every college in the State.
18. What are you going to do
about it? What are you and your
neighbors going to do about it? Are
you and your neighbors going to send
your fledgeling off to college next
September, bewail the expense, grum-
BILE about having no good school at
home, and finally be disappointed in
that your children do not get on as
you think they ought? Almost every
community in the State could better
it's school without one dollar Of addi-
tional expense, if the patrons would
use common business judgment and
work together.
19. If you have a high school,
support it and build it up; keep your
children in it until they have COM
pleted the course; then if the course
is inferior or too shc-t, spend your
money on that school instead Of on
somebody else's school. If you have
no high school, why not? If you
need help, the State is willing to give
you a start, but not to support it for
you-that is your privilege and your
business. W. H. HAND,
High School Inspector,
Feb. 20, 1909. Columbia, S. G.