New Britain herald., 1922-10-05
TOWN WILL NOT PAY
 IF PUPILS ARE GAY. Would Deny High School Tuition, Unless They Study
 WEST MAIN STREET HEARING
Poultry Club Members Listen to In- teresting Speaker Who Gives Dem- onstration on DisscctinR Rooster Odd Fellows VIII Meet Tonight.

onstration on Dissccting Rooster
 Odd Fellows VIII Meet Tonight. Plainville pupils who go to the New Britain or Bristol High schools for the purpose of Pooling away their time" instead of studying, will not be paids their tuition costs, according to a vote passed at the regular monthly meeting of the schoolS Scommittee held here last night.
 | The vote was passed after some dis cussion on the matter when 1t was charged that some of the school chill dren were wasting their time at the out-of-town High schools and did not pay much attention to their work. Even at the local Grammar schools, 1t has been heard on several occa- sions 1t was said, Wait until I 20 High school next year, won't have a good time though?"
 An investigation of the work of some of the children at the High schools caused the local officials to take action on the question and they arrived at the vote of refusing to pay any tuition unless the pupil proves worthy of 1t.
 l.. s. Mills, secretary of the school | committee, felt that in view of the high cost of transportation and tui- ton 1t seemed good business to re- quire the pupils to make use of the opportunity afforded them A report of the conduct of each pupil at- tending the High schools is to be se- cured from time to time by the Plain- vile committee in order to ascertain thei raverages and standing. The committee, having received reports of some very delinquent pupils, have ar- 1 rived at the decision that the town should not spent any money on chill | dren who go to High school flor a l good time only"
 The Vote Passed. The following is the text of the vote passed at the meeting which is sched- ] uled to make a change in the atti- tude of learning for some of the 1 Plainville pupils:
 | Voted, that the approval of pu- pills for transportation and tuition in
 
 | clude any pupils in the class of 192? and succeeding classes for, such time as any of said pupils are repeating one or more years work in said non-
 ocal High schools, provided only l that said repeating of one or more years work is brought about by care ,ess neglect of school duty on the part i f any of said pupils
 Pupils at High school. There are now approximately 65 pupia attending the New Britain 1 High schools and about 22 in Bris- tol. Every child going to New Brit ain costs Plainville s220 and to Bris- tol $150 each.
 Pupils Increase. Durir. 1921-1922 there were S7 l Plainvii.z pupils in non-local High schools. For 1922-1923 seven more 1 have entered these High schools With the increase in the number of l pupils, and with the increase in tui- ton, there will be total increase for | l922-1923 over that Of l921-1922 in l tuition and transportation of at least l s6,0O0. Local salaries have been in- creased s3Sl.75.
 The estimated total cost for 1922 l 1923 is as follows Total cost for | l922-1923, s505S9.94; estimated in- creases for 1922-1923, tuition and l transportation, s6,000; increase in To- l cal salaries. sSS1.79, making a total cost of schools for 1922-1923, s57,- 271.73. Estimated receipts for 1922
 
 tickets, etc, s3,50o. Estimated net cost of the schools to the town, s53,- S7936.
 School Room Here. Plainville now has, in addition to the eight-room wooden building and the eight-room brick building, two portable buildings supplying three additional rooms, or in all 19 school rooms. These rooms are now over- flowing. and more rooms must be provided in the near future, probably next year
 In addition to the problem of more school rooms, there is the problem of transportation from White Oak Four years ago the cost of transporting these pupils by trolley was s72o. For the present year we have transported 140 pupils at cost of $2,19o40. | Next year the cost of transportation will be greater from White Oak, as there are more children to come in to the Central Grammar school.
 Recommends New School.
 In the annual report, the school committee had made a recommends tion for a new school The propo- stion of maintaining a High school was mentioned several times at vari- ous meetings and the following re- port was submitted and recommend- ed.
 The cost of maintaining High school of 100 to l2o pupils is approx imately s12,no to s14,000 per year. Even then the variety of subjects cannot be offered that are offered in New Britain or Bristol. Yet, with the building erected and equipped. the town can operate High school at S4,0o0 to 5000 less per year than it can send to non-local High schools.