The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-10-05
WAY THIS ARBITRARY POSITION?

When the Board of Education pneets
this morning it will be presented with
a petition of the local schools be-
seeching that body to return to the
time honcred system Of school hours
in Brunswick.
In all frankness, The News does
not feel that the Board of Education
has shown the proper regsTds for the
sentiment In the communityaan that
subject or sf0F those who args9aogt vi
tally concerned in the mater DE par
ents of the children largely TIE
mothers, unua whose shoulders the
real burden OF the child falls
To begin with, these wonlea have.
time after time petitioned and mem
orialized fheszsoard to give them the
common courtesy of consideration; it
has not yet condescendsd to do this
and The News understands, has de-
MED representative women of the
city. a hearing on the subject at its
meeting scheduled for today.
It is not a pleasan thing for The
News to be forced to remind the
Board Of Education that. it is but the
servant o fthe people after all. Like
all other functioning bodies in our
system of government, it is created
by the will of the people and the will
Of the people ought to be the highest
sort of mandate with it!
II is also unpleasant to remind this
Board Of the fact that early in the
present year, movement was on foot
10 legislate il out Of Office, in fact
hill was drawn and submitted to the
representative from Glynn county, in
tended to bring that about The News
very stubbornly resisted that move
ment and from the very beginning
raised it's voice against such harsh
measure. In view Of the attitude OF
the Board on this subject, which is
both arbitrary and unfair may we,
express the opinion, that there may
have been more cause for that propos-
ed legislation than we then knew?
In any event, we are again appeal
ing to the Board of Education OF
Glynn county to respond to the senti-
ment of the people on this subject and
restore here in Brunswick the same
system as to school hours now in
vogue in a vast majority of the cities
and towns In Georgia Reasons for
this change have been submitted from
every viewpoint and we are forced to
opinion that the refusal of the Board
to accede to these requests is not
based on wisdom or justice to the
people more directly interested In the
situation Then again, we desire to
entar our very emphatic protest
against the edict sent forth to the la
\ dies at the head Of this movement by
the Board OF Education that they
must present petition containing
the, names of eighty per cent Of the
patrons of the schools, in order to Sc
cure the remedy and the relief they
so dovoutly desire. Since when and
by what source of reasoning has eigh
ty per cent become a majority of any
given number.
The truth of the matter is that this
| ill.advised plan OF keeping children
In school from $50 o'clock In the
morning to 4:30 O'Clock in the after
noon, was adopted In the face Of the
opposition OF a great majority of the
patrons land the teachers, too II they
were free. as We are, TO express sin
csre opinion) and II has been arbitrar
lily maintained merely because the
power 70 do so for the time being has
been placed in the hands OF the few,
who control things on the Board OF
Education!
That's all there is TO Il and we sub
NIT that It is unfair, without reason
and eontrory to the viii of the vast
majority OF the people who, after all
| Is said and done, pay the expenses OF
the schools.
If the Board of Education has good
reasons to ofrer for its position, then
ia Justice to'itself. 1t should give them
10 the public falling in that we regard
L as the duty Of the Board to bow e
the popular win and give the patrons
Of tho schools what they have asked
for and what they had perfect right
10 demandl