Show THE SESSION The reactionary members of the board of education could learn a good deal by b listening to the public comment on their system of secret meetings m and their disregard of ot public rights In the trans transaction transaction action of their business Almost with without without without out exception the people regard the executive sessions of the board as a defiance of public sentiment a flagrant disregard of the common rules govern governing governS ing S public bodies bodles Always in Important matters before such Buch bodies the debate on the matter In h hand furnishes reasons for and against the action taken The only safety of a minority is in the force of public opinion on aroused by such debates the only protection the public has against Jobbery and favoritism is the publicity offered by open discussion It Itis Itis ItIs is the habit of this board to discuss its important affairs in secret jam through the business in public and let the pub public 4 lic Hc guess gue s if It can whether whet er the right ight Or r the wrong has won No Xo public body in the municipality has such important interests in its care as has the board of education It con controls controls controls the instruction of pupils it has under its jurisdiction hundreds hund eds of teachers it spends annually fortune a I I of public money The Tha people have a aright aright right to know not only what is done but why it Is done and what whet motives impelled the doing If Jf the matter could be tested In court It seems seems probable the buard board would be bet t e to transact its business in inthe inthe inthe the open where any citizen could hear and know what was vas as going on If the board does not see At lit to change its system the people will take it into their own hands to lo make a Change in the per personnel personnel onnel of the board The coming school elections s will offer fI r an opportunity for forthe forthe forthe the expression of opinion on the system in vogue and there is little question as asto asto i to what that opinion will be if it is registered at the polls OUs The tern session Is a relic of the days when the people eople were the subjects not the masters of officialdom and the plain citizen who foots loots the bills will not tol tolerate tolerate erate orate a revival of the system |