| Show the school problem editor enquirer esiquil el in the lust list issue of your paper I 1 noticed in article tre treating atina upon tile hie subject of schools unit giving why several persons did nut not vote for a small tax lax to pay school teachers lencl nira for tho the corrill coining og year let us look tit rt the pint past and present condition of the ilia district acl schools in our city the method of proceed ure lias has been to got get some man or woman to take tahe a tor for a term of th lit roe rea months this person lias has received fill and hm has acine particular which of course la Is tang loughl t I 1 in for ilin term or forms teaches lei chos the pa patrons trails aio a required to purchase a certain class of nl books lor for tills this style tits teacher having to collect his lii own pay a piles la is I 1 greed upon between him blin min ana the he trustees trustee the h teacher Klier tOi receives loc elvea as aa many children as ail he can froin floii the primers to the grades all mixed together A great leal deal ot or the iba teach erli time la Is spent la in considering how to lo collect ills his fay pay and perlin pi at the tb end of three mons months is ono one th third I 1 rd armora or mora lit hlll still uncollected and he be not liking to aock ork without pay leaves oa alho aba school and the trustees are required to fill 1111 the vacancy by a now new teacher ta cheri who has been taught under a new system eysle ni the children baying made headway under the former instructor are re now required to be ba furnished with Jiff different erent kinds of books altogether find nil they are now to be lo in in ili this new system this new teacher Is in the name aoi financial condition as aa his bli predecessor was he collects his big own py find when lila hill let teiei M expires expire C large amount of his wages Is s still 11 due and lie he leaves while sonic some one OBO ohl else al must take his bla place almost every now new teacher has hill own particular style and thus the children ch illren are a continual chiL change NY while hie a considerable a portion of the time vvo vve oro are without teachers owing to th this is p perpetual ual clif change tRe the trustees have not been blind to toucy such a poor policy and condition the question with them has ha boom been how bow to lo avoid it and remedy the fault in tile the drat place school houdei bad to be built and the lie people have afis essed themselves enough to lo build two largo large houses housea for or school purposes purpose 9 afier doing BO 60 the trustees malo made a trial last spring 5 or r r hiring llie ills teachers by tile mouth month the file trustees trustee to lo collect the iha pay irom from be put patrons ran and pay the th three ree teachers were rera engaged notice was wai pub to eliat effect R find I 1 a taw people ent their children to school s hool tito the trustees Iru steea leelna that the people did not sustain the ibo move more closed one ona school and arranged arrant ged for the teachers taa chera odthe of the other two to loro resume Buma the former method and nd collect the tuition at the recent recant election two trustee trini tec went w ent out of office bid and two others were el eciel in their stead the first question that was wa by them wat was the th building of gilhool houses and the conducting of schools their examined the be liw law upon the iha subject abject section 4 or of the tha school law or of 1880 seeing that the legislators Legli laton placed the tha power of lovy lr taxes for building u as and paying school teachers lea cheri into paying iha bianch of I 1 afia I 1 people the trustees asked the people to pay one hair orene per vent eai tax to pay school te to chers out of iha file BO who wore were present at the called for far the above purpose 40 were enabled IB a say that property not bo be taxed for the paying of teachers tile the trustees or cour courna tse ilia ibe verdict of nf that meeting Is what noil next what couro cars they false to ralis ral is tile standard or of lie ito schools in fit of tha ilia trustees I 1 the he A ilon ir ir p plan 1 if w wasi as a adopted C and intended nt to t bo be carilli d out nut illie 16 the ha teachers leu by the month tile trustees ruste oi to 0 o collect I 1 act the tuition from the people one month in advance no a ui as to be sure of at the be means to pay the iha teachers tea t chirs at lie 1110 end and of every month and no one wilt will he received jn in school by the teacher without a permit ironi from the trustees we wa do not wish to d do any child of the be privilege olgo of going to school our aim Is to giro every boy and girl an and an not lat at any one grow up in I 1 ignorance norance of a coin common on education of not baying beani jansto to pay we wa intend to 0 use the raa appropriation to puy pay for aja a ortho or chose ete un able abla tot to there here are cities casts w where ere men lesve lix e largo fa milles who are ablo able to pay for part and not all such people went want help we wa hope hopa that w lion ben we again open the schools the people 11 hii ll sustain itala ahem by sending thal tbell children rev and the pay so 10 that abat we e may hirell hire dl competent teachers and hit have ve goo rood dell I 1 rl at se SAli SAMUEL tUEL LIDDIARD provo city july 51 |
