The Battle for Education Funding

At the school board meeting last evening, a memorial to be presented to the state legislature was read. Through the public journals it is learned that a number of bills have been introduced looking to the establishment and maintenance of normal schools in various small towns. Inducements in the way of sites are reported to be offered, the values of which are many thousands of dollars. It will be impossible for your honorable body to comply with all these land-booming, town-supporting schemes, and it is to be hoped they will be summarily and sharply repulsed. The pupils in a normal school are usually young men and women of limited pecuniary resources. The only proper places for schools of this character are in the hearts of cities, and the larger the cities the more appropriate and beneficial the locations. In the cities are to be found the youth needing and desiring the peculiar education afforded, and in them are to be found innumerable educational advantages outside of the schools, and a thousand means of light employment and revenue valuable to struggling, needy and deserving students.