The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-04

Book / ...--.. .. %. -. %. .4.--. Is
Book .........--.--. .15
Under state contract. -.. .13
Under state contract. .... .13
Hyde's Book Course in Grammar
BOOK =. ......--. 30
BOOK z ..........,-..-.. 80
Under state contract. =. ....-. 20
Under state contract. ..,..-. AS
Now, let US take a few figures from
Duval county, upon which Mr.. Apple
yard laid so much stress.
The state adoption has in addition
to the Duval county list \
Wheeler's Primer .. -. .r..-...-.$ .25
Arnold's Grammar .....-. 20
more Mines Arithmetic .....- IA
Ritchie's Primer ....... 20
Prangs s Book Drawing. 1.45
s2.2s
Difference on entire county and
state list In favor of state. %
s2.54
Price total state list .s13.40
Less books not on Duval CO. list 2.54
Cost Of as complete course Of
state books as the county
course of Duval county. .s10e6
1896
Amt. state books cheaper than
From the above it plainly appears
that II Duval county uses a course
Of books only equal TO its present
county list, as appears in Mr.. Apple
yards statement they will be $3.50
cheaper for each complete set than
they would be under the county con-
tract price as published by him.
If Mr.. Appleyard will present a
county list covering as many books
and giving as thorough and complete
course as can be taught from the
list of state adopted books, then we
prices. as a total, will lbe at least 20 or
80 per cent higher than the total state
list To present such q complete
couny list he would have to add seven
or eight books and drawing to the
county adopted lists which he has
published.
Mr.. Appleyard seeks apparently to
make the impression that all Of the
books put on the adopted list by the
commission as basal books have to be
used and that the patrons of the
schools will be compelled to purchase
every one Of them. The state unifor-
nifty law does not require anything Of
the sort, nor was such the intention of
the commission.
The idea of the commission was
evidently to prepare and adopt such a
list Of books as would make a course
that would meet the requirements of
any school In the state. The courses
Of study will be prescribed by the
county authorities as heretofore, for
the state commission is not charged
by the state uniformity law with the
duty Of preparing courses OF study.
The only requirement binding on the
county authorities in regard to ar
ranging courses Of study is, that the
books used must be taken from the
mission--not that every book shall be
used.
II counties and schools where no
fuller course is required than has been
heretofore under the county adoption
plan, no greater number OF the state
adopted books will be used than weer
used under the county plan. And in
every instance that no more books and
no greater and completer course is re-
quired from the list of the state adopt
ed books than from the county adopted
books the cost Is bound to be less un-
der the state adoption plan, because
the price for each and every book un-
der that plan is less than under the
county adoption system.
In one of his articles published III
the Times-Union Mr.. Appleyard de-
sends to a little piece of cheap dem
agogy that Is unworthy even Of the
| author and of the cause he advocates
He seeks to give prominence TO the
fact that the requirement of state
| uniformity of text books does not ap-
ply to the high schools, and draws
| from this the conclusion that state
| uniformity bears particularly hard
| upon the poor man and Is lighter
| upon the rich, because the high school,
are entirely in the cities and larger
| towns, and that only the. rich attend
| them. while the children Of the poor
man attend only the schools Of lower
| grade to which the expensive 90 state
uniformity system applies.
The effort is contemplate. The
| premises are false, and the conclusion:
drawn from them are, of course, enron
our people, in both city and country
are poor; and in the city perhaps NOR,
| than in the country. The high school!
| as we'll as those Of lower grade art
| free, and just as large a percentage o
| poor as of rich attend one as tn,
| other. II the high schools are. in Mr.
Appleyard's opinion, peculiarly favored
| then the children of the poor are th'
| especial beneficiaries Of that favoritisn
for there are many more of them il
these high schools than there are o
the children OF the rich. as there ar
in the schools of all other grades.
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