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f KV koi«!ati,>k is«itoi»«n.
, ,,;i]ipr lea,) recently lief ore the
convention at Warm
Jrs entitled “H«r the Time Come
| 0 ,np: lsorv Education?” Mrs.
mdertook to show that the
Innl come for auoh education,
Iso undertook to point out how
jxpayers of Georgia were fleeced
1 year while their money fails to
L the object intended.
L- I don’t propose to criticise
pelton, or ill any manner im-
lu-r motives, for I know she has
ests of Georgiyi and Georgians
Lit, and her motives are above
lion; still, according as I see it,
Felton is wrong in several o f
liiemcnts, and I contend that,
ill as the system would lie bene
|to a state or county ready for
: time is not ripe for il in Geor-
|s. Felton asserts that there is a
population of 700,000 in Geor
Inii that money is called for to
|te this number.
school population of Georgia,
|inl numbers, is 700,000, but
is not called for to educate
Limber, hut 250,000 that do at-
;he sciiools of the state every
writes that “somebody is kill-
line on these taxpayers, and the
is paid o..t like water on the
Now, as a matter of fact,
By is killing time on the taxpay-
Inil there is a pupil standing
1 to get the 9ti^ent* per month
Is paid out on him. Certainly
It' could expect a teacher to in-
, a child a whole (noutli for a
uuoli less than this.
|e average number of pupils in
|auendaiiee throughout the state
>193, and the number of teach-
19, making an average of neai-
pupils to each teacher. These
f'l'ils that actually go every day
let the benefit of the taxpayers
The average cost per pupil
[■enlh paid by the state is 96
Therefore, each teacher gets
average only about $28 per
|h for teaching 30 pupils, and
lus bauds f. 11. The teacher
I manages 30 pupils iii the ordi-
| s diools, such as the great rua-
of the sciiools of the state ate,
P s iutle chance to “kill” much
Ion tlm downtrodden taxpayer,
iity'eight dollars is what each
|*er gets for teaching the 30 pu-
do go to school to him ev-
|‘ a y ■ Is not this pay meagre
Is there any sinecure in
ie amount of money appropriated
jw School fund is based upon the
y ,tir °f pupils tliat actually go to
"Hot upon the number who
I I he made to go—and the teauh-
paid poorly enough at that,
let’s see what would be the re-;
I’f l l |e 700,000 children in Geor-
1 er - forced into the schools. At
h"t '■he average daily attendance,
heady seen, s 250,000, or about
one-third of the school population,
and each-teacher gets $28 for teach
ing his 30 pupils. One of two things
would have to happen if the 700,1)00
children were forced into the schools.
Either we wo Id have to haw three
teachers wh«re we now haw one, oi
each teacher would be forced to tench
90 pupils every day and for $28 a
month. B t he couldn’t possibly
teach this tnmlier at any price; hence
we’d have to have ll;e three leaclurs
where we now have one. These
teachers, ’Without extra- taxation,
wo dd have to divide the-128 among
themselves, so dial each one would
get $9.33 per month for his services.
We see, of co irse, that at these fig
urea we’d have no teachers. Then
the only thing we could do would be
to go ahead and impose an extra tax
of $3 where we m»w raise one. Sev
enty four dollars to pay three teach
ers where we uow pay one teacher
$28! Not much “comfort” in this
for the taxpayer.
Again, to show that the above
would be true, Mrs. Felton speaks of
$1 ,600,000 demanded by the state to
educate 700,000 children. As slated
above, this $$,600,000 is not to edit
cute the 700,000, but the 250,000
children. Let’s see what would be
tlie state of affairs if it were applied
to the 700,000 children.
From this $1,600,000 take the
$200,000 expended for county school
commissioners’ salaries, members of
boards of eduoaiiou, amounts paid
for postage and printing and the pur
chase of school supplies.uud buildings
and the extra thuusuifds Mrs. Felton
puts on.to make rouud numbers, and
we will have as actual salaries |taid
teachers $1,300,000, or about $1.75
per year per scholar; so that each
teacher for his year’s work would re
ceive $52.50, which wouldn’t much
more than pay for the trousers he’d
r..b out ou tile rough pine benches.
There Is still another feature.
There are 150,000 white children in
actual attendance upon the schouls
today, and 100,000 colored—j ist
two-thirds as many colored as whites.
N iw, there are, in faut, just as many
co >red children in Georgia as whites,
tue school population being very ev
enly divided; so that it forced to go
in we’d have three colored children
to three whites. These five children
who go now—three whiteB and two
blacks—would have to pay this extra
colored pupil’s tuiticp, aud three
fifths of It would have to come off
the white child’s share, or three-
twenty-fifths of the entire amount
now given to the whiles would be
taken away and given io the colored
children. Hef-e wo ld again be a
whole lot of solid “comfort” to the
white taxpayer who iiears practically
the expenses of the government.
Thus We sue that there isn’t a great
deal ot time being “killed” pu these
taxpayers. There i* no money poured
out like water on the sand, but every
dollar goes where it was intended to
go and docB the work—actual work
—that a dollar aud a half or two
dollars would do in other branches
in life. The teacher works hard ami
faithfully with his 30 pupils foi bis
little $28. He eight to get $50.
I have shown that there are 30 pu
pils who do go to school every day
to each leaoner, and that the average
salary received is $28, and yet be is
credited with “killing time ou the
taxpayers.” He is also in danger of
having thrust upon him either three
limes the number of pupils or one-
third pay, as poor as it already is.
We have seen that his pay is, in all
houesty and, fairness, meager enough.
Every one will .agree in this, l'heu
the only way to establish compulsory
education is by extra taxation. To
do this a tax just three times as great
as it now ip will have to be imposed.
Instead of $1,600,000 we will have
to raise 4,800,000 to pay the teach
ers at the present rate of compensa
tion, The taxpayers wouldn’t And
m cli comfort in this.
Twice much money would have
to lie expended in pew buddings,
school supplies and textbooks. Sal
aries of county school commissioners
would hat-e to be raised, so Hint
I there wo Id, indeed, lie danger to the
! tuxpaVer of living sold o-it of house
j and home. Then the state could
i hold you by the throat and von wonI<1
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wiili the enormous expenditures the
increased educational facilities would
demand.
• All tins is not because 1 am con
stitutionally apposed to i-ompiilsoyy
education, hut because it is just at
present altogether impracticable. It
is iraj facticable in a state or country
where every white man, when he
semis his three children to school,
will have to send at the same time
two colored ones. It is impractica
ble in a stats or country where the
average taxpayer has not been edu
cated in the iitdeft that he is to bear
his proportionate Share of the gov
ernment expenses, and where be is
disposed to complain at the low rate
of taxation that prevails today.
It is all a mistaken idea that tlm
teacher is killing time. He is doing
his part and doing it well for little
pay. No money is being poured o ,t
like water on'the sand. Every dol-
’■ir the teacher gets he earns, and
more besides.
’The trouble is not that the state
has nowhere to apply its money. It
is applied and j idioiously so. The
main trouble is the state hasn’t the
ihoney to apply it where it is needed.
When tliis obstacle is overcome, com
pulsory education will be possible.—
J. A. Beasley, in The Atlanta Journ
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