The Hickman courier., 1915-03-25
County
School Notes
BY Miss Virginia Luten
County Supt.
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toned the fact that our county Is
divided into four districts and
hence has four different school
boarGs. There is board OF
trustees for each of the graded
schools located at Fulton, Cutch
field and Hickman and a county
board that has charge of all
rural or county schools.
Eacn of these four school
boards has control of the school
fund raised by local taxation and
said fund is used for building, r..
pairs, equipment, incidentals, sup
plementlng the salaries of teach
ers III tine grades, and paying the
salaries of high school teachers
In addition to the funds raised
By local taxation. the State pays
10 each board the per capita
which is .460 tins year There
Is no state appropriation for high
schools. Some States furnish
State AID for high school but
Kentucky does not.
Before the year 1908 the clnl
dren in the rural schools had no
high school advantages required
by law. while all the larger grad
ed schools We're providing free
high school tuition for the pupils
IN such districts. In 1908 the
couGiy was made the unite OF or
ganization for the rural schools
and the law compelled the com.
lty board OF education TO provide
at lest one county high school
with a four-year course at which
pupils from rural schools could
Ihave free tuition The law left
lit optional with the board weth-
er il should build a separate
thigh school at some point IN the
county and employ It's own high
school teachers or contract with
1.-The high schools already existing
| provided they reached certain
standE7dsl, and provide high
school instruction for the rural
pupils in this way
The county board had TO con
sider many things, mainly the
cost of providing high school IN
struction. the convenience of th'
rural pupils, and the quality OF
work done in the high schools
already existing.
We can get an idea of whal
! high school instruction costs b'
studying the high schools IN ou
own county We viii take las
years figures.
The Hickman School Board em
pIoyed superintendent and on
teacher at a salary of Sl66.66 pc
, month plus tuition fees, and tw
additional teachers who CAV
part OF their time TO high sehoo
classes. making the total salarie
Tor high school work at leas
b 5000 per month. In estlmatln
n the cost of the high school "
shall have to add 10 tins amour
a the provision OF school room
for these classes, fuel, Janitor SCI
- vices. library and other equiI
o ment. Tuition fees from pupl
I not living in the district wei
paid to the head OF the scho'
= and would probably someihlu
like balance the additional salar
z that would have been paid I'm
! for supervision of the work
8 the grades. This high school e'
a rolled 5 pupils from the rur'
schools, one from Tennessee an
As from the Hickman disrue
While we cannot make an exa'
n estimate of the cost of the me
dental expense We do not tim
II could be figured that this hg
school cost the Hickman distrl
II less than $1,000 per year. z
II there were 43 pupils from this d
iii trict ia the high school depar
I'LL ment We can estimate the p
ii capita cost per month.
iii The Crutchfield High Scho
I'LL has a twO-year course at prese
and as more than one teach
iii hears both graded and hi
iii school classes, it is more ditilc'
Hi to estimate the cost of the IN
III school only, as that was also I
iii first year of the school and mt
iii of the work was in the first ye'
HI or 9th grade. A two-year IN
|l school always costs less per pul
I'LL than a four year high school, b
We can generally assume II
Hi the per capita cost will of eom
I'LL depend upon the number of puE
Hill enrolled.
lll The Fulton School Boa
Hill employed a superintendent a