The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-03-16

The above bill if passed will raise
the tuition of pupils attending free
high school from ftty cents a week to
one doiLur a week. This will make it
four dollars a month for tuition in
stead of two dollars as in the past, or
in other words forty dollars a year in
stead of twenty dollars year for each
pupil,
The high school boards claim that
after all the expenses for running a
school have been added together and
that amount divided by the total num-
Der of pupils attending the average
cost for educating n boy or girl in a
high school for one year will amount
to from thirty to fifty dollars. At
present the country boys and girls
have been getting their high school
education for twenty dollars year
while 1t really cost the city forty
dollars year per pupil to give him
this education. This is the reason for
the above bill providing for the raising
Of the tuition. In some high schools,
however, especially those in the coun-
try districts they have been able to
give this education for less.
In the past the country people ar
gued, why have a high school town
ship in our town when we can send
them away to get the education for
much less? | cannot take the space
here to give all the arguments against
sending children away from home to a
school, but in the future if above bill
passes the country people can no long
er say that we can get the education
cheaper than if we have a high school
in our own town.
Besides there is great advantage
for community or a town to have a
high school in its own midst, teaching
what is of paramount interest to them
along the lines pertaining to their
welfare. Country boys and girls should
receive an education that will tend to
have them remain on the farm, and
more scientifically than in the past,
work our farms, plant the seed and
reap the crops and learn to conserve
our soil 50 that it will not only pro-
vide us and our children with future
maintenance but so that it will be as
fertile in generations to come as it is
now.
This spring, on April 18th, the Town
of Mishicot will vote on the proposition
of a township high school. At the be-
ginning of the present school year there
were twenty-five (22) pupils from the
town of Mishicot attending free high
school. The tuition for these is charg-
ed up against the town. At the pres
ent rate of twenty dollars year that
town will have to pay four hundred
forty (i40) dollars tuition. This amount
of money will go out of the town and
also a great deal more that is spent for
board and room rent. If the new law
passes charging forty dollars tuition,
the town of Mishicot will pay eight
hundred eighty dollars for tuition.
It would cost the town of Nlishicot
from eight hundred to u thousand
dollars to have Il high school of its
own. The rest the state would pay.
The first year, of course, the equip
ment would cost something but it could
be fairly well equipped with few
hundred dollars. No building would
be needed for some time to come.
1t is hoped that an Agricultural
Township High School may be voted
for the town of Mshicot this spring.
The town of Meme with its large
number of pupils about of high school
age ought to begin to consider this
matter also. At present it has two
graded schools. The graded school at
Spring Valley discontinued for this
year but it has a large attendance.
Osman has about 80 children attending
and will have to grade their school
soon
Meme has a good center for a high
school. There are no rivers to obstruct
the most usual and nearest route.
Franklin considered the proposition
quite seriously last year but it could
not be brought to a vote because Of
certain obstacles pending at that
! time.