Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-19
.NtGN]N AND MOORE IN
.PR0TES! AGAINST ACT
School authorities
Assert That Children Living IN
Certain Zones Attend School
Located in Another
DISCRIMINATION CLAIMED
Say Board Chairman Declares
Everything Left Up to
Superintendent


Moore, residents of Taylor street,
who object to school assignments
given their children, today declared
members of the board of education
ignorant concerning the establish
ed zone system here, and COM
plant that the system is not be-
ing justly administered by the
school authorities.
Some children living in East
Americas school zone, Messrs.
Wagnon and Moore assert, are not
required to attend the school there,
while others living outside the zone
are required to go there. This,
they assert, constitutes discrimina-
ton, against which they have
lodged vigorous complaint with
members of the board of education,
but without receiving satisfaction
of any kind.
Their position is set forth ac-
curately in the following COM
munication brought to the Times
Recorder today, and which is pub
lished by request;
editor Times Recorder:
! Although only two members of
the board of education had ever
heard of such a thing, we under
stand the City of Americas has
been divided supposedly b ythe
board, but evidently not) into
, zones, in order to fix what school
a child should attend, and the
center of Horne street is the di-
viding line; all children living
west of the center of Horne street
should go to the Furlow Grammar
school and all those living east of
the center of Horne street, attend
ing the first five grades, should go
to the East Americas school.
All right, we have NO objection
to that plant but we do say that
such rule should be applied to all
children alike, and in as much as
this has not been done we feel our
children have been Disseminated
against. There are several chill
dren, some on the. east side of
Horne street, now going to the
Furlow school and attending the
first five grades.
"Upon complaint made to W. W..
Dykes, chairman Of the board, we
were informed that the board of
education left everything up to the
superintendent of the schools, that
the board had nothing to do with
the running of the schools and that
the board did not try to please the
public but looked after the chill
dren.' Other members of the
board said they thought an Unjust
ice was being done, although some
of them frankly admitted they
never attended a board meeting,
knew nothing about the running
of the schools, and that
they themselves thought they
ought to resign. One said
the only meeting he attend
ed was when they had something
to eat.
After we had made complaint
the superintendent changed, three
or four children, one of the I'M
dersigned's, putting them in Fur
low. We have investigated and
are informed that on yesterday
they were teaching five less chill
dren in the fifth grade of Furlow
school than last year, and sixteen
less in the two first grades.
What we want to know is,
wherein is the justice of admitting
some children living east of the
center of Horne street in the Fur
low school, but requiring others to
go to East Americas? A rule is
a rule and should be enforced the
same as to all. We don't object
to sending our children to East
Americas, but we do object to send
ing them there unless all children
in the same zone are sent there,
too.
John A. WAGNON,
"R. P. MOORE.
"Sept. 10. 1922