Belt Valley times., 1923-04-05
eoMMfTrEE REPLIES TO MR.. sCHERF.
Editor Belt Valley Times,
Belt. Montana.


Hshed of by Mr. H schr of cascads3
by explaining sherf principal of schools
that salary of 1888 per month
from the county unit and tGat T. r. Lyman " ~ Same ~ " ~
of the county board
district for the year compete that of 1929 not being
as Cascade Shaw the being withheld this year fo
some reason or this salary list it will
be salaries ranging from 1855 per
month per only of the latter figure however
principal of the Cascade schools is the recipient Pos
sbly this may his with respect to county unit
To answer briefly favor of the
unit
The first was that the county
ass on school budgets which his estimation
oud he no less iksome vled
charge that trustees district
phod spending of peoples money Mr. Sce proceeds TO ex
hst should object system ta calls for the
local going for the coming year"
Montana" the superntend
puts differently She @The s5suFdty Of enusng the
enterprise from 81 trustees
largest county WITH VARY
DEGREES OF ABILITY IN MANAGING THEIR OWN AFFAIRS
itself - ~
Perhaps the Times readers exactly
mental ability that fit the board of
district handle the complex
ce $50 for his services Less than one per year Oh e
sf month The taxpayers the rural unit
sherf almost s each day he teaches On that ratio Mr. sc
would willing devote about three days of his valuable e were he
memb o board, $50
= these ID budgets when
submitted them by the county supneadent he aware that
in
completed and that they
budget ARRANGED
office for alleged Of
ranging fair minded
school
superintendent the only domna
controlling factor under the unit system of school control that
nominal
just school law intended be-
that the general school laws the board Of
county budgets third class school
districts which In action by
of
overlooked stating that the latter only $50 and cannot be
~ a % as M > ts; t Ind minds sIusivs,v % to county ~ matters which
81 nrv influences which control our school affairs under county
independence
but make euaby balanced conservatism
by which interests taxpayer patron teaching
feson protected
doubt thinking the county unit
school the equilibrium of fairness and mpsra
school that the commissioners county mat
where the county the aut0cra controlling factor
certainly superintendent
which controls other the
en.rm Certainly Mr. sherf the county supervision would
ksoms than that Of the county superintendent and much rer
reply argument county
- th ; ps,hs it viii b tho LONG and umbsr.oms to nubi.h
giving four
preceding the adoption Of county unit 1915 also the school
U going
the districts this the unit with the
identical districts 1918 reveals that whereas there s22 school
children school district 1918
there 1899 the SAME TERRITORY Judith Basin districts smn
children years county
unit which has vanished completely from the school
with But this de-
crease not indicative Of the real loss to county unit rural school
strictly speaking By examining the 1918 and 1922 school for Cas-
eade District No. Of 81 for district noted
the district This handsome for the Cascade schools doubt
Scherf
heiart Fife and a the other sub districts for & mag
t e3S3S $4,000 $sS88 salaries IN but
satisfactory districts
tendance brought about BY ssatsfcon which to
the unsatisfactory conditions buildings
H Of the first and second class districts largely from
cad district loss Of 81 pupils from the farms supporting
schools natural law human ban
children missing
ghbong s1s
Of
and