The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-07-24

Dear Editor:
Scanning the pages OF The Banner
my attention was attracted by lhe
subject Proposals for bids for trans
fers of school children OF different
routes" and l asked myself the
question, why can't We have u route
from Bishop S Head to Grape HlSn
School, to be paid for by the Schooi
Board, or give us teacher Tor
higher grade than the seventh. OUR
pupils generally finish that grade
when about twelve years OF age,
then we have no school for them ana
the majority are not able (hnaEclal-
ly) to send them away, and ii we
were we feel they are too young 20
trust out of parental care. IL IL
were not for the pupils of Bishops
Head ToddvIlle and Wingate, there
could not be Grape High School, and
if better arrangements are not maze
I think it is doomed
For the past two scholastic years
4 have witnessed all kinds of sacrl-
fees and endurances by parents and
pupils trying to attend that school.
Some have had to leave home before
the sun arose, to 60 up with transit
or mail bound for Cambridge, and
have to sit around in porcheS or
vestibule Of school until school hour,
others went in cars hired by the
parents at an expense equal TO
greater than sending them to Cam
bridge. Our children are intelligent
and bright and to test the truth you
had a sample of three in Cambridge
High School last winter. BERTHE
Wheatley Crawford Murphy and
Marry Ann Taws.
believe in the consolidation OF
these schools and realize the won
derful improvement in school works
made possible by consolidation. AS
it has increased that daily attend
ance more than all others combined
true riding three or four miles to
school is a greater incentive than
walking one and one-half miles and
we find attendance of pupils brought
in truck or car higher than those
living two and one half miles radius
and we recognize there is very little
done where there is poor attendance
Consolidation bringing many
pupils together in one class comes
rivals, the real spice of good school,
work, where there is only one or two
in a class which is often the case il
one teacher school. There is very
little chance for ruling and interest
often drags, but on the other hand
take large class of pupils and all
Of same ability and the instant one
takes a step forward, the others will
"a 1Io fC oil r
tention.
know this from self-experience
I have spent twenty-four years OF
my life in a school room. Ten years
as scholar and fourteen as a
teacher.
Compare st. Thomas School with
thirty ago when l sat as scholar
we had no limit to grades. Our
boys and girls were self made
Count up the teachers that have left
that school since then. Some as
good as the county can afford for
their grades of teachers.
Compare the building with it's oui
buildings in the delapidated ,condi-
ton looking like relic of the past
Compare it with our church if the
community had the say it would not
look as it does.
When the children here reach the
seventh grade all the good thinking
people that have a tending to high
er education, are moving away in
order to give their children better
education so in order to save our
community or Grape High School l
humbly ask your honorable board to
give scholars free pass
PATRON.
Bishops Head, Md, July %, 1922.