The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-05-14
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
MAKE STATEMENT.
Discuss Finances and Make Plea that
Should Appeal to Every Parent
Schools Of Grenada Greatest As.
set Salaries and Work Done.
To the Citizens of Grenada:

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for the time being to direct and care
for the public school interests of your
town. we, the under ;rned members of
the Board of Trus Cha ocsrc. -epada's
public schools, deem tlos CIerh
terests of the school and as a maItv-
duty to you to make this public state
ment.
There are none that will gainsay
that our schools are our greatest
asset; there are none who will combat
the statement that if Grenada has been
noted for one thing above another. it is
her schools and the civic pride dominant
in the minds and lives of our people.
Acting upon this idea, and keeping we'll
in mind the future of Grenada and the
natural and proper demands of the So
cial and business world, the Trustees
feel that they are but obeying your
commands when they do their utmost
to maintain the high standards of our
school by giving you the best obtain
able talent to instruct the children of
the town.
There has been some little said about
the duty of the Trustees to cut expen-
ses at the white public school, Whether
this emanates from those without chill
dren or who are not patrons of the
school, we are unprepared to say. OF
course if there were reduction in the
salaries of all city employees, a little
more serious consideration should be
given this particular matter, but in
view of the fact that this is not true,
we think it unjust to the children and
highly improper and unwise to begin to
trim or hedge on the most important
enterprise or institution in Grenada.
Next to our churches in sacredness and
Importance come our public school in
terests. In our public schools the lew
cling process 50 necessary to the well
fare and development of full rounded
manhood and womanhood begins. 1t is
here that the children of the poor and
the less fortunate in life can come and
get all the care and instruction that is
given the children of the well-to-do or
more favored by fortune. Education is
a necessity; debate about this has long
ago ceased There can de no question,
either. about the fact that as the world
becomes more populous. the competi-
ton in life will be keener and naturally
the best equipped man or woman will
push to the front to greater extent
even than now, and get those places ir
business and in professions that give
the greatest reward. 1t follows, there
fore, that our children and the children
of the next genneration will need to b'
better equipped, to be better educated
if you please, than we of the presen
day. The child whose parent does no
want him or her better educated and t
succeed better in life than he has. /
unfortunate indeed. Every right mind
ed parent hopes and labors for tina
which is best for his children. A
these things being kept in onr mind
and being charged with the serious re
sponsibility of doing that which W
deemed best for Grenada, We have re
elected all the present faculty of tn
white school who were applicants an
at present salaries. 1t might not b
amiss here to state that two of ou
teachers who have been with US sever;
years, did not reapply for the reaso
that they are offered better salarle
elsewhere.
Referring again to the financial en-
of the school proposition, there is a
apparent deficit in our school fund, bl
the budget for next year, as we unde
stand, will be amply cared for by tt
anticipated revenue. 1t is unnecessal
at this time to discuss the reasons II
the deficit. Our levy for school pu
poses within the city of Grenada is on
a mills and is much below the ave
age town in the state. AS we unde
stand, the city council have ample a
tbority to transfer from the gener
fund to the school fund to meet scho
demands and that this has been mo
frequently done by past city admin
trations and several times by this on
It is good business policy to. cree
every department of business with
products or with whatever goes o
from it; the city is now charging {
public school with its water and iigh'
this is due the power plant, yet
makes a draft upon our school fu
which has not always been done in t
past.
We are not wasting any money
our public school. We have inves
gated and compared salaries at otn
towns with those paid here and we