St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-07-20
SCHOOL BOARD
PROCEEDINGS !:
JULY 5TH.
Continued from last week.

CoVington, La, July ), 1918.
To the Honorable President and
Membesr School Board of st. Tam
many Parish, La.
Gentlemen: Il have always be-
'lieyed the july meeting of this board
to be the most important one OF The
year i'll mdny ways. 1t is at this
meeting that the law asks you to
adopt budget of resources and at
the same time you must adopt a
schedule Of salaries to be paid for
the coming year. For the above
reasons, if for no others, trust you
are prepared to do some hard work
today.
Because of the wonderful growth
Of the towns of Madisonville and
Vaudeville during the past few
months ! feel that we are going to
have our schools in those towns full
to overflowing. With that idea in
mind l have ordered with the con-
sent of the First Ward Director,
desks for fifty more pupils. This
will probably have to be followed by
another order for as many more bv
the time school opens. | cannot YET
determine what Vaudeville school
needs. l am gaing to ask that
you pass a resolution instructing me
to apply to the State Board OF Edn-
cation to have the Vaudeville school
placed upon the state approved list
of junior high schools just as soon
as we can qualify. While the MAN.
deville school will probably have
funds sufficient to carry out this
scheme this coming year, l regret
that Madisonville will not, SO far az
l can now estimate.
About a year ago you considered
the matter of building an addition
to the Savannah Branch school house
but decided that the one for the Pill
grim Rest school should be built first.
This was done and now it is proper
for you to consider the matter Of g
second room for Savannah Branch,
You will take into consideration the
present cost Of material and the need
of another room there. ] regret 10
report that while we took two
months from all of the schools Ct
the Second Ward last year so that
we might have funds to build the
third room for Pilgrim Rest, still we
were able to give them three teach
ers only one week as there were no.
pupils enough to justify even one
teacher.
The Union Grove school ran below
thirty pupils and / removed one
teacher and had to close the school
entirely before the end OF five months
as the number in attendance ran be-
low ten. This was about .the same
as at the Peace Grove school, and J
would most earnestly recommend
that you do not hesitate to remove
teachers or close the schools when
the patrons do not keen up the at
tendance of pupils to the point re-
CURED by law and your resolutions.
Under the present financial condi-
tions I feel that We cannot run
schools unless the pupils will attend.
no matter how much / believe the
schools should be kept going. Now,
il pupils are necessary for school
to be run they should be necessary
to Justify the operation of school
transfer, and I recommend that no
transfer be operated after the num-
ber Of pupils riding on the transfer
falls below ten. Last year such a
condition came up and may this com
ing year. / would offer now for
your consideration the matter OF
putting in a transfer from the
Schneider neighborhood in the third
ward to the Covingten school AMI
another from the Bonfouca school tc
the Slidell school. Under the same