The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-13
CITY SCHOOL
SETUPS in N. c.
Are ACCEPTED
Boards Taking Extended
Territories Where
ever Given
By J. c. BASKERVILL
The Times-News Bureau
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RALEIGH, July 13.-Most of
the city school administrative
units are now well satisfied with
the new boundaries set up by the
State School Commission and see
the advantages of the new and
larger units, according to Leroy
Martin, executive secretary of the
commission. There was some OPP
position to the enlarging of the
city units at first on the part of
some city and county boards of
education. But at the present time
there is only one city in which
some objection still remains to the
boundaries of the new school unit
as recommended by the School
Commission--the city of Burling-
ton.
1t has been the policy of the
School Commission in determining
the boundaries of the new admin
iStrative units. to extend them be-
yond the city limits of these towns
and cities and to include within
the units all the elementary
schools that feed into the high
schools in the city systems. There
were two reasons for the adop-
ton of this policy. One was that
if these elementary schools were
not brought into the city systems,
their graduates would either have
to go to more distant county high
schools, involving high tranSporta-
ton costs. Another was that If
they sought to go to the city high
schools, as in the past, they would
have to nay tuition, especially If
the city system should supplement
either the eight months term or
have a ninth month. Still another
consideration was that if the units
were enlarged to include more
area than the old districts and a
supnlemental tax should be voted,
the tax would not have to be as
large, since it could be distributed
over a large property valuation.
In the case of Burlington, the
administrative unit as tentatively
set up by the School Commission
not only includes the city of Bur-
lington, but such suburbs as Glen
Hope, Glen Raven, Elmira and the
Fair Grounds section. Heretofore
the schools in these suburbs and
mill sections have been part of
the county school system, although
their graduates have gone to the
high school in Burlington. The
School Commission took the view
that since the graduates of these
elementary schools went to the
Burlington high school they should
all be part of the Burlington
school system. 1t also felt that II
a supplement should be voted, that
all those that would benefit from
a supplemental tax should also
have a part in paying it.
But it has apparently been this
very thing that has not met with
the approval of some of the prop
erty owners in these suburbs of
Burlington, especially some of the
mill owners. For while they are
perfectly willing to let their child
rem go to high school in Burling-
ton and to let the property own
ers in Burlington pay a supple
mentary tax, they do not want to
help pay this tax themselves-al-
though there is no assurance that
any supplementary tax will be
levied. If so, it must be by a vote
of the people inside the new school
unit. There has also been some OPP
position to the enlarging of the
unit from the county school board,
since it will reduce the number of
schools and school children under
the jurisdiction of the county
superintendent-and hence reduce
his salary somewhat. 1t is believed,
however, that as soon as the facts
are learned by the people in both
Burlington and the surrounding
suburbs, that they will approve
the new plan.
This was the case in Albemarle,
in Stanly county, where the en-
largement of the city school unit
was at first opposed. but where
it was finally approved almost
unanimously. The old Albemarle
school district included only about
half the town, although children
from outside the district went to
the schools inside it. Yet some of
the people in the town paid school
taxes and others paid almost none,
being outside the district. So there
was some opposition when the