Show FREE SCHOOLS AND TUITION FEES IN another column will be found a letter which has been sent to county tf tc dents adenis by jacob boreman the tt rit orial commissioner of district Distri dt schools it will be seen that this small person carries his littleness right along in every capacity in which he finds afield a field to operate he commences his epistle with carping complaints about tile the school law coupled with petty objections which he does not fortify with proofs or instances and which are just about what might be expected from a person of his mental calibre one thing he seems desirous of emphasizing with the purpose no doubt of creating difficulty among trustees of different school districts instead of endeavoring to promote harmony and unity of purpose for the benefit of the people and the cause of edu education calion that is the construction which he be places on the section of the law in regard to tuition fees the law provides concerning the school board sec 43 it shall have power to admit to 10 the schools in the district pu from other districts when it can eils e done without in injuring jaring and overcrowding such schools and shall have power to make regulations for their admission and to charge and collect reasonable fees for their tuition it shall have power to arrange with the board of an adjacent district for send sending 1 n g to such district such pupils sat as can call be conveniently taught the therein reint when for any cause such pu pupils pile cannot be conveniently taught in the district in which they reside and for paying their tuition it shall also have power to make proper and needful rules for the assignment and distribution of pupils to and among the schools to the district and their transfer from one school to another now hehr what the commissi commissioned commissio onet nef i says t in endeavoring to reach correct in of its different sections section and provisions and to reconcile aa agag harmonize the whole it is necessary that hat there be kept constantly constandy in view the fact that the law was intended to ave and to establish free schools the territory that is the rat solid rock on which to build any interpretation of the various parts of the ine law and we must conclude there lore at the he outset that under no cir um atances can tuition be required for tho 1 admission of any child of school age e in the tae district oi or ty city where he or olives lives and no child canace refused admission to or discriminated against ill ia way any district school in the terri tory Y there is no need to make any particular effort to harmonize different provisions of the law because they will harmonize themselves in mind not given to the fabrication of imaginary difficulties the only thing out of harmony with the law is jacob borremans Bo remans misinterpretation terp of one of its provisions or rather his dictum in direct appo tion to the law it is true the law was framed to establish free schools in this terri tory ory but it contains eonta contains eonta ins some limitations and restrictions As to the wisdom or necessity for all of them we will here say nothing the thesues ques on is what is the law the commissioner says no child can be refused ad admission to or diacri discriminated min against in any district school of f the territory the law says that at schools must not be overcrowded and in order to prevent children from one district crowding into the school hool or schools of another district the he school board may charge reason bole fees for the tuition of such children ildren therefore children may under given circumstances be reused refused admission to some district bools of the territory har sr S r boreman was so given to kinslaw kin ng glaw law when on the bench that he e must needs try his hand at the sarae me business when acting as an officer we advise our mends friends to stick close to the law and pay dav no attention to the commissioner when hen he states anything contrary to the e law A little reflection will show that there must be some restriction in this s matter or there will be cases of most desertion of one school to the overflowing ver flowing of another various cruses uses might contribute to this ret ault such as the popularity of some teacher or the strictness of aa mother Other the desire of the children to t attend the same school as their friends the disposition to ange in some parents as well as aate dae children and other reasons or houses if the trustees will read carefully the tb section of the jaw we we have quoted doted above I 1 hey will understand requirements and see the reasons why they were made an they will also perceive that these are not out of harmony with the general intent and scope of a free s school hool law nor would there be any necessity for saying this or directing special attention to the section had it not been for the insinuations and improper assertions of the school commissioner when children belonging to a given school district seek admission to the school schol of another district if their presente pres presence enbe would cause over nver crowde crowding bg or be otherwise injurious they may be and ought to be denied admission and to prevent these evils the law says the trustees may charge reasonable tuition fees for such children what the commissioner says to the contrary does not count also the trustees of a district wherein there are several schools may make arrangements for the proper distribution of the pupils and their regulations can and should be enforced notwithstanding what the commissioner says on this matter trustees of one district may charge tuition fees for the children of another district who come to their schools and the trustees of districts where it is necessary that tha t some of the children should go to the schools of another district may make arrangements for the payment of such fees all this la is necessary for the protection of teachers who might otherwise be imposed upon and of the schools that might be overcrowded and spoiled wherein the commissioner keeps within the lines of the law tits his instructions should be promptly and fully carried out wherein n he plainly goes against the law and snarls and finds fault he should be quietly ignored |