Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-02-12

VIM. BeMeClarren. eW. IHeher 1
c. J. Biery County Supsrlnsen1xsN |
A Representatives of q sehoaI book
seompanyv who viiteds s. Jhe
forepart of this week states Shat he
has heard of only one other County
Normal in the state which has as
large an enrolment ,as the Fulton
County Normal a:.,,
The school committee of the House
of Representatives have. evidently de-
termined to carefully investigate the
excelencies and defects of the new
school code before initiating any new
legislation on school matters. They
have sent QUESTIONABLE to the coun-
ty superintendent, county auditors,
and twenty five presidents. of village
boards and one hundred presidents of
rural boards of education, of the sew
eral counties of the state, and this is
the way in which one president of
board of education of Fulton County
answered it: =
l. How does the present school
system as regards school supervision
work out in your county?'
AS far as we are able to tell, hav-
ing tried the system only five months
it seems to be working out quite salts
factorily to those who understand the
situation. There are some who think
that it is costing the taxpayers of
the county a considerable sum of mon
ey. l have taken the trouble to in
vestigate the financial matters and
have found the following conditions
| to exist:
This county employed last year
seven village superintendent and one
centralized township superintendent,
who were employed at an aggregate
salary of $9045 for the present year but
when the new school code went into
eiTecC these seven village superintend-
ents were made district superintend-
ents at an aggregate salary of $7735 !;
the superintendent of the centralized
district was made district superin-
tendent of 81 rural schools at salary
of $1400; and another rural school
superintendent with 43 schools was
appointed at $500, making the total
for district supervision for the pres
ent year $10,635. Thus the district
supervision of the entire county
costs $3.50 more than the supervision
of the village and few rural schools
would have been under the old sys-
tenn.
Adding $4,000, the salary of the
county superintendent, we find that
the new system costs $3790 more in
this county than the old system would
have cost, but this county will receive
as aid for supervision $3279.72 from
the state, so that practically it costs
the taxpayers of Fulton county only
| $510.28 more for the supervision of
every school district in the county
than it would have cost them for the
supervision of less than half of the
county under the old system.
| 2. How many district superintend-
ents have you in your county? Is, this
number too large or too small?
/ We. have nihe district suReEintend-
entss Five of these are1stfi&ly vii
lage superintandents asS in former
i years One district Superintendent
4 has fiEe qIfage teachers and fourteen
rurai another: has FIVE Villages aSh-
Eersxahd Axe rurafS sthe srehainihg
leigfl3y rural teachers are supervised
lfby t@o strictly rural superintendents
1t may be possible another year tc
include all the rural teachers under
these two rural superintendents.
\ 3. What is the most imperative
need as. regards school legislation?
The most Imperative need in my
estimation is larger state revenue
4 for school purposes, and few if any
ether changes in the school code.
A. Is.ft desirable to have uniformi.
ty of text books in the county?sg
4 Yes, beeanse: ~. Itenables pupil.
!, to move from one school. district tt
another without having to buy new
n text books In a part ,eor all of theil
studies. i (2) 1t enables the, county
superintendent to outline the worl
4 for the schools more definitely thar
can otherwise be done. Z n ~
5,s If uniformity is desired, is coun
d ty uniformity preferable to state uni
formity2 If so, why? -
County uniformity is preferable b
state, because: (1) The educationa
: leaders of a county, who know tn
condition and the wishes of the peo
; pie are better qualified to select tn
y text shooks-than~a%co slaeatel
at Columbus could be. (2) County un-
| formity could be accomplished with
out changing as many books as stat
nkunif foEa9ity Vsu1d require.
6. -Mave sApef9ntendents taken an
: steps to secure uniformity of tex
books? If so, what steps?
2 The association of School Boar
,. Members appointed the County Boar
of Education as a committee on UNI
> form text books. So far this com
! mittee has formulated no report.
# There will be a meeting of the Stat
Association of School Board member
at Columbus, February 12th-13th. A
r members of, boards Of education al
invited to attend. >. Following are tie
l. of the thirty questions of vital intel
est to be discussed: -.
1. Should the school day be longer
2. How much district supervision
i, necessary for the greatest eficienc
| in the country schools?
III 3. Who should be responsible fl
the appointment of teachers in. tt
rural schools?
III a. What is the educational value (
| Corn Contest? ..e
II 5. What is the value of Count
ISchool Exhibits?
III 6.To what extent should the scho
be used for Neighborhood Meetings
II 7. Is there, at present, an excess {
| Supervision of Rural and Villae
| Schools?
II 8. Should the State provide teacl
ers' pension fund?
9. Should the Millage Levy for tt
support of schools be restored?
II 10. Should the high school cour'
] fo, oirlc he the same as for bovS?