New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-08-01

rate. the board OF public works are
the target of the ants and the pros
on some proposition or another. But
every day of every year the poor
school board finds itself embrolled
between two fires of public opinion,
il must he difficult indeed to be a
school board member and act for
what one considers is the best in !
terests of the city and its scholars. !
Just at present the question OF the /
high school is furnishing subject |
for heated discussion, so much SO
that the Mayor has found 1t adNls-
able to appoint a comWittee to look
into the various arguments of cit-
zens. the purpose of said committee
being to quench the fires OF oratory
by submitting a report on the whole
subject But, in our opinion We shan
not be any better Off than We We're
before DESPITE the conscientious ct
fort to please that may or may not
be PUT into consideration OF the
nrohlems at hand. The school board
las presumably exhausted moch
time and patience in arriving at
conclusion, additional committees
simply complicate matters. We must
look far to find Interior motives In
school board actions. 1t is our eei'ef
that the members. divided in opinion
though they may be at first, having
finally arrived at a conclusion do so
Justly and no one can do more.
Schools are very costly. In our
growing city they are burden TO
the taxpayer, there is no doubt OF
that. The board itself will cheertuliy
admit it and, in the next breath, ask
us what to do about it. There is only
one thing to do and that is educate
the children as well as possible and
as efficiently as possible. 1t is the
growing school demands and the
steps taken to meet them that cause
the trouble and keep the pot OF
dissension aboiling. There are fac-
tons in the city who wish sood
schools and are willing to pay for
them. there are factions that want
the schools but howl like blazes
when it comes to pay tor them
visiting their wrath on the schoo
committee for being an Aggregation
of spendthrifts, there are factions
who do not want any schools at all
at any price and there are factions
which. if we must have nice new
schools, believe they should be PLACED
u lust across the street from thel
homes. All these aims are human
+ we must and do expect them. But
II is impossible to satisfy them all. NJ
matter WHAT DOuy dIeo upoli Sei'o
matters. Consequently We might
u well accept the school board finding
Al in the first place.
IL Mayor Paonessa has evldentl
10 lent a willing ear to the north en-
v faction when he favors a hls
DC school in that locality, sectlo
IN which he, quite naturally, wishes t
. benefit. Wherein he, as We'll is hu
lie man. 1t would not be surprising a
lie all were the committee to find tina
re there We're virtues in the argumeI
that a high school should be bul
Ne north Of the tracks. 1t woul
probably be quite a shock to III
MAYOR at least if it found opposlt
IT We imagine that the school boai
lis has decided upon the course who
Is it believes will give the create
as opportunities for the least mont
on and that it will not be particular
C. djsplcased if it finds itself autho
n lied to build a large new plan
n with a separate corps of teache
IL and administrative officers, in I
In northern section. 1t has evaded II
Int plan, having in mind the expense
as the TAXPAYER which it involves.
of The argument that some day,
New Britain continues to grow,
a will build a high school someWhe
a north of the tracks is sound. \
he shall probably have to. maybe soc
'ue or than We expect. The argument
er. those in favor that getting to a
the from a school in another section v
ut be a hardship to the pupils is scar
ion ~ tenable in these days of rea
on Transportation. II they were ready
mt admit that they want the school
Use cause of the enhanced value of
a section around it, that they beh
ng, they should be granted one OF n
] Britain's newer public buildlr
are that they would appreciate the be
I'M fits and return the compliment w
He another section Of the city MI
en- later be helped, they have game
ody reasons enough for placing
hat school up there. And all Of IL
,ox- latter arguments are justified II
wed it comes to the question of eXpe
. he Then we shall have to cons
whether II might be advisa BILE to
lne an addition on the high school {