Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-06
Are the Affairs Of Our High School in Shady Plight?
AN EDITORIAL

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AN EDITORIAL
months attention has been cented on the new
hah school which vhon Island has SO generously and Fundamentally
willingness be taxed by free offering OF
that anxious provide for
our bovs and Girls educational facilities equal to other communities
remarkably spirit and that the building
actually process appalling
~ or comnants charges and what not Time and
expedency the high school
RETAINED adverse comment
even mourning criticism thereby rather than do or say single thing
might endanger situation how
bitterness and hard feelings
np enoenered will proye rnou to our Island and nue purpose
allowed much hope has been
school CT binding together to let
present conditions to 20 on there
charge workmanship going into
school drastic action should be taken
at once to remedy the condition To start an investigation is the duty
any taxpayer qualified high school is
will be paying for 1t long after
architect and contractor have received their money
unoundd then let's in all justice to everyone
cleared and stop the everlasting talking and
criticism.
present psycoogcal unavoidable by
the attitude of the high school board that public
at their meetings which
taxpayers had the knowledge Of when these
meetings were held The NewsRecord willing
publish gratis the time this
accepted when needed We have
been told by action and word persona
meetings under discussion because
than they should Then In the second
place there has been entirely
getting with the building of the school,
and being the word and have
come to thing generally
as bargain truth be that thing consequently
rumor the hcddy" the bargain We
not SO simple as to think artisans working
yhon pleasure midst and have
had the that has begun to
pail
No honest their
but according opinion have erred In judgment We
have felt their into the field Of
present time We feel that sound
business logic should school affairs
in private when engaged in build
ing plant much of the does not
usually launch into side additional
premature his figures that the board could
money by operating school
built and we breathing spell would
have glad would that the present
was not the time expenditure about $4,000
plus interest this question why these buses
purchased Island firms that the commission on them
could not have the build
ing Various approached and did not
know buying these vehicles while certain
members of the with force
than elegance local firms At the lowest
granted the depreciation alone on these new buses this year
amounted being paid previous
years for transporting pupils We not sufficiently in
formed the exact distance these ew buses
travel as compared travelled the transportation
companys buses; all costs pupil mile
our that the present not the time
for an expenditure represented Despite the
accusation that we are undu transportation
maintain that the few dollars the board were led TO be-
eve they would venture into avodae debt at
time securing funds for the new
building.
Nv the same sign but that with
many things really needs would get along nicely
without an electric reported eight hundred dollars
Larger schools the classroom bells by SWITCH and
would seem split not entirely necessary when
classes can be dismissed games other school activity
approve heartily of the clock we in position 10 PROVIDE
everything goes but would that it, like the $500 re-
turn switch called unnecessary by switches
and dispensed with and save the amount
something unitarian less ornamental or instance
equipment for the home economies department
BY March boards will have organized We will then
know the school board From present indications
there particularly advocating change
1t would matter who to on the incoming
board that willingness treat the taxpayers
as rather than outsiders The new hsh chooi
IS our business paying good deal more heavily
who will have to pay IN
the the board refuses to FURNISH us WIN
the information still the ones pay
the prce for we bitterness and dsenon In the
that escape its effects An Island quarrel such as
now seems threaten back twenty years
the taxpayers to take bsinesske attitude and