A School Board Under Fire

Under the head of 'School Matters' last week's Bulletin makes an unwarranted criticism of the school board. As usual the Bulletin is on the wrong side of the fence. It seems to forget that its pet administration, the former board, ran the district into the hole several thousand dollars, so that this board has not had money to build a much needed two-plank walk around one corner of the school house or to hint a hall in which to hold the graduating exercises; that the laws limit the rate of taxation and last but not least a new assessment is now being made, upon which the amount of available funds must be based, and not even the assessor himself can tell what that assessment will amount to. Of course the board might engage a lot of teachers for a long term at high salaries and everybody be happy, but next spring when the funds gave out and the schools were closed two or three months before the time set, the teachers who had been deprived of other opportunity by the false inducements thus held out would have cause for considerable hard kicking. The board is rather to be commended for the stand they have taken, which does not seem to have deterred about forty applicants from seeking the six or seven positions.