The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-03-08

Iour (4) mills, and When q school In
such district employs two certifcated
teachers for q school term Of not less
than six month. and when such school
has an enrolment of not fewer than
hfty pupils and an average daily at
tendance for the session Of not fewer
than thirty pupils. and when such
school is taught in . comfortable and
sanitary building provided with the
minimum equipment prescribed by the
State Board Of Education, and when
1t uses course OF study and classifi-
cation approved by tho State Board Of
Education, It shall be entitled to re-
ceive State aid under this Act to the
amount Of 100000 per year.
Sec. 3. When any rural school dis
trict in South Carolina shall levy and
collect q special school tax OF not less
than four (D mills, and when such
school employs three or more certi-
icated teachers for q school term Of
not less than seven months, and when
such school has an annual enrolment
OF not fewer than seventy-five pupils
and An average daily attendance for
tho session of not fewer than forty
pupils. and when such school is taught
In q comfortable and sanitary build
ing provided with the minimum equip
ment prescribed by tho State Board
OF Education, and when 1t uses a
course OF study and classification ap-
proved by tho State Board OF Educa-
tion. It shall be enacted to receive
State aid under this Act to the amount
Of $4,000 per year.
Sec. 4. No district which receives
State aid under the provisions Of the
High School Act or OF the Term Ex-
tension Act shall receive aid under the
provisions Of this Act. No district
which contains an incorporated town
with more than three hundred inhabi-
tants shall receive aid under the pro-
visions Of this Act.
Sec. s. II shall be lawful for the
School Trustees Of q district to use
the State aid obtained under tho pro-
visions OF this Act to furnish public
conveyance Of children to the school
when in the opinion of the trustees
and tho County Superintendent such
action is wise and expedient.
Sec. 6. The State Superintendent
of Education may refuse aid under the
provisions Of this Act II 1t is made to
appear to him that the expenditure
would be unwise and detrimental to
the interest Of free school education
in said district.
Sec. z. The State Superintendent
of Education, with the State Board Of
Education, shall provide rules and
regulations for the distribution Of this
fund, and shall publish such regula-
tions to the various County superin-
tendents of Education, who in turn.
shall publish them to the various dis
trict trustees.
Sec. 3. Applications must be filed in
order OF their receipt and paid or
refused In the same order.
Sec. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act, be. and the
same are hereby repealed"
This Act flls gap which was not
covered by the High School Act or
the Garris Act. I trust that many
schools in Union county will qualify
fer State recognition under this act
during the present year.
II there is q school in Union county
which has not yet provided itself with
q school library. the people OF the
district should know that SO con-
trtbution raised by personal sub
scription and placed in the hands Of
the County Superintendent will Sc
cure for the district a library worth
$4,000.
have said no moro important duty
rests upon the trustees than that Of
securing a good teacher. It is just as
important to keep that teachers as 1t
is to secure her In the beginning.
Last year In South Carolina fully
seventy-fivs per cent of the country
teachers were teaching for the first
time in the position they then held.
No teacher can do her best work dur
ing her first year. She should be
willing to remain long enough in a
position to accomplish something def
inite and to leave a better school as
q monument to her efforts. The trus-
tees should endeavor to keep the
teacher who is doing fair work for a
term Of years. To do this It may be
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