Evening journal., 1913-09-08
RnnAL pur1Ls ANp CIrY sCHOOIs.

- PERKINS. a responsible citizen who lives in
- Brandywine hundred and who is interested IN
educational matters has sent to us the following let
ter
To the Editor Of THE EVENING JoURNAL
Sir:-I wish through your columns TO enter a pub
lie protest against the invdious discrimination made
by the Wilmington Board Of Education against chill
dren resident in the country hundreds ana auehuhE
schools In Wilmington / a resident OF Brandywne
hundred. and speak of conditions there. Doubt
less similar conditions exist in every country hundred
in the county.
We who live in the country hundreds entitled
send to the Wilmington public schools $50 children.
For these children the state of Delaware pays to the
Board Of Education in Wilmington twenty cents per
day each
act was clearly TO provide for the free public eduoa-
ton in the schools of the city Of Wilmington of two
hundred and fifty children resident in the rural hun
dreds er they had arrived at point IN their eauea-
ton where they could not longer be accommodated in
their rural schools In spite OF this wise provision
by the Legislature the Wilmnston Board OF hduca-
ton by a recent ruling. has decred that every child
attending school in the city. while remaining resident
of country hundred. shall pay s. per hall year Tor
the primary grades SIS per half year the grammar
grades and $40 per half year for the high school
grades
1t is reported that there was a condition attached
the resolution that IL any time the State Of Della
should pay to the Board Of Education the per
diem allowance provided for by law a proporuonate
part of the money demanded in advance would be
returned TO the parents of each child.
II also reported that the for this ac-
ucn by the Board is that the Treasurer Of the state
of Delaware refused TO pay the quota Of money TO
which the city Of Wilmington was entitled for two
years and that he did not pay il then until after a
special of the Legislature had been passed com
mandiag him to make the payment
IL seems to that the parents Of the children
resident in rural New Castle county who send their
children to the Wilmington public schools are being
made to suffer unusty because Of some opinion held
by the present some former State Treasurer and
respectfully, but earnestly, protest against being made
s. suffer
This week the state Fair will be held in this city
Farmers from all parts OF the county will be there
suggest that public meeting be called for some day
durins the Fs'- to which all residents Of rural New
Castle county shall be invited, and at which time
appropriate action nay be taken which will i'm.
pei the Board of Education OF the city of Whining
ton to give to the right TO which. under the laws
Yours very truly,
c. A. PERKINS.
We are sure that Mr. Perkins and all others smi
ary situated will agree that if boys and girls from
Brandywne hundred and other neighborng hundred
attend the public schools city, the municpait
should be compensated from source. whethe
Il be from the state treasury from the pockets
the parents OF such boys and girls The taxpayer
OF Wilmington no matter how friendly they may fee
toward the cause of liberal education cannot be ex
pected to pay for the education Of the children O
men who live outside the city limits They hav
enough to do to deray the expense Of educating thei
OWN children. They not so narrow, however as I
wish to close their large. expensive and admirabl
educational plant to such children All they wis
Is that there shall be derived from the tuition fee
for such children enough money to meet every phas
Of the educational cost
AS the men and women in the rural hundreds SUI
rounding Wilmington as a rule intelligent an
fairminded, we think they will agree with the for,
going. AS understand it. however the real noir
OF the controversy is that Mr. Perkins and other me
in the rural hundreds contend that the State is n,
doing its fun duty in the matter and that the Boa,
OF Education Of this city fixed its fees not so hs
merely will cover the expense Of educating those rur
children. but so they viii give to the board a lar,
profit at the end Of the school year II those thin
be true think the parents in the rural distrio
should hold meeting, discuss the questions in
dspassionate and busncss-like way and appoint
strong committee confer with Governor Mill,
State Treasurer Hastings and the members of t
Board of Education of Wilmington
That M,nnesota preacher who saws mat the en-