Show DUTIES OF TRUSTEES br request we wo publish the accompanying pan sine 0 lettjr with some bome remarks of our own appended cromo croydon morgan co r march 1880 editors despret edw news there seems tobe tobo to be quite a misunderstanding der standing with quite a number of school trustees in relation to their duties as such poopoo do not all view the law alike therefore trustees and taxpayers in some somo of our settlements are at variance in relation to school matters As your readers are very numerous in this county cou nty I 1 beg leave to ask you the following questions Is it noc not the duty ot of trustees where there are good school houses and the people are willing to pay tuition loff fees for their children to provide for them a teacher or must musij the taxpayers tax papers employ the tho teacher and make tile the necessary nee aecus essaiy arrangements themselves can we not infer from tha way the school law reads that it is the imperative school pera tive tivo duty of trustees to visit a school once during a school term my version would bo be that if not his imperative duty from the fact of his accepting the office a trustee should be interested enough to do so by py inserting tho the above in connection with your views on the subject you will greatly oblige citizens and your ybur humble servant TRUSTEE the answers to these question may be found in th the tho s clisol law passed at the tho late lato session of oi the tile legislature which has aheady alread been published ishI in the theDE DEs eret EKET m ET news in the third s section it is provided that the trustees shall provide suitable schoolhouses school houses and keep the same in in repair employ teachers z 1 ac ac this plain requirement of the law lw ought to preclude all dispute on this point if trustees do not want the responsibility of engaging jek jem teachers hers prescribing tiie tile the manner in in which schools shall be conducted the branches to be taught cl and tates rates of tuition the defor I 1 as aswell well weil as to discharge tile the other K duties ties of their calli calling nr 0 as prescribed by law they should not accept the tile office trustees should mako make themselves familiar with the law in relation to district schools and be bo careful to covy comply with its provisions because I 1 they ey cannot otherwise discharge their obligations properly ro verly penty andare and are amblo to suit on their their bonds for fon far neglect n leet or wrongdoing 0 by reference to section nine ft it will be seen that it is mado made the imperative pera dera tive duty of the trustees to ta visit ivisic officially teach each school in their respect respective ivo districts at least once during each term tho law jaw says they shall do so this leaves leavas no room for inference rence renco and no opening for dispute and we fail fall to see wherein aher e the people and the trustees have any occasion for misunderstanding on these po ins they are as plain as the english language can make them tile the time has come when those who are elected ejected to office must eon ton consider themselves under obligation obligations to perform tile the duties thereof inte into intelligently faithfully and as servants not masters of the people school trustees should bo tie tic active tive able wise and liberal minded and anxious ito to subs orVe the tiie cause of education and anif to labor for the progress and culture of the file rising generation no trustee mu can reasonably think himself justified before tho the law or his own conscience who never visits the tile school under his supervision nor nol makes himself hini blui self seif acquainted quainter ted edwith with the teacher and the scholars nor with the manner in which tho the school is conducted grave responsibilities are placed upon school trustees trus teeg tees and while they should bo be diligent and discreet the exo imo people pic pie plc should sustain them in all laudable endeavors tor for the goodof good of our ur district A schools |