The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-29
School Meeting in Somers
Saturday Fails to Solve
the PrObln.
COMPROMISE In SIGHT
Parents Suggest Town Board
Pay Part of Tuition to Send
Children to City Schools.

There was plenty of talking but very
little action on Saturday afternoon
when more than one hundred parents
of school children in the town of SOM
ers gathered at the Bonnie Hame resi-
dence to hold conference with the
school officials of the town regarding
the question as to whether the children
would be forced to attend the Hannah
school or whether their tuition would
be paid for them to attend the McKin-
ley school. All sides of the problem
were discussed and affairs ended in a
rather chaotic condition, the school
trustee insisting that the best he could
do was to hire two additional teachers
and provide school facilities for the
108 children involved at the Hannah
school.
Some of the parents, however, were
ready with compromise agreement
whereby they offered to pay part of
the tuition and this may yet be adopt
ed and put in force.
Just Across the Line.
AS related before, the children in
question live just across the city
lines, on Hamilton avenue and in the
Bonnie Hame district. The Somers
school officials have provided the Han
nan school for them, where there are
two empty rooms but this is mile
away from their homes. Meanwhile
the Mckinley school is in plain sight
and only a few blocks away and they
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President Glerum of the Kenosha
school board was present at the meet
ing and explained that because of the
crowded conditions of the city schools,
the policy of extending free tuition for
those near the line, must be abandon
ed and that the city schools must know
where the tuition money is coming
from before the children are entered in
the schools. He said that tuition would
amount to seventy-fve cents a month
for the first child and fifty cents for
each other child in the family.
Offer Compromise.
After considerable discussion in the
course OF which Frank, Hannah, the
school trustee at Somers, explained
that under the present conditions he
could only plan to provide for them at
the Hannah school, a plan was suggest
ed that the parents would pay one-half
or one-third of the tuition if the town
of Somers would pay the remaining
part of the sum. This plan is also be-
ing considered but no definite action
has been taken on it.
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present at the meeting and suggested
that in the event the other rooms at
the Hannah school were re-opened
there should be conveyances provided
to haul the children to and from the
school. Such scheme might pacify
the parents and may prove the solu-
tion Of the problem.
Looking Up the Costs.
The school officials of Somers are
now investigating the costs of securing
two more teachers and of keeping open
the rest of the Hannah school. 1t has
been their contention that with the tax
payers providing the school, the offic-
iaIs have no right to pay out money
for transfers. If, however, the cost of
running the two rooms exceeds the
money for transfers, it is possible that
the final decision may provide a way
for the children to go to the city
schools.
It was stated by number of the
parents, who are taking part in the con-
troversy that in the event the town of
Somers refused to pay tuition for their
children, they would foot the bill them
selves and send their children to the
Mckinley school.