Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1950 — Page 6

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State School Head Cites Development Os Schools

< Editor's note: Following is the first of two articles explaining the ideal school system setup, designed for better education tor students, and lowered costa to taxpayers. as compared to the system now in use in Adams county 1, Three factors keep our county taxes high and school standards low, Deane Walker, state superin . tendent of public Instruction, stat-1 ed in July Tax tales may be lowered as much as 50 percent, yet provide betsystem. keeping always tn mind the three things that raise taxes and lower standards 1. Artificial school unit—boundaries 1 Prejudice and selfish attitudes.

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ter schools. teachers. and studies for the children, he predicted What does this mean for Adams county? we Ask ourselves. Is our system the best for the money we spend? Could we spend less, yet have better schools? Could we rei duce taxes just by changing school unit boundrles? Let's examine an ideal set-up. : and compare it with Adams county’s 3. Ignorance of su hoot problems, | and of ways to active them. f, First let us discuss the school unit. Jn Indiana, as in a few other states, the school unit is the township, tovm.'or city. The school unit is an admlntstra_tive unit. This means there may be. and usually should be. more than one school building In the

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unit, but only one central office for buying, hiring, and firing The plan for the local school unit 1 is very Important It these units ■ are small, the program of education will be extremely costly per child, and the children will also have poor equipment and care. Our School Units -In Adams county wp. have It school units Itecatur. Hern'. French, Adams Central. Blue Creek. Hartford. Jefferson, Preble. Root, St Mary's Union and Wabash Gnat year these, schools enrolled 3.851 pupils This does not count our Lutheran and Catholic grade'and high schools. School unit attendance, then, was Decatur 1,011 Adams Central - 661. Herne-French 587. Wabash -457 Root-264 <_ St Mary's—23B. Jefferson 23‘i Hartford ISS Blue Creek 132. Union 75. Preble- 23. This shows that our school units vary in -‘he from :::t to 1.ni.8 .pupils. j- Study Made In 1947 Indiana's teachers appointed a committee to study our schools, and find which were the cheapest to run. and the best Walter J. Krick. Decatur's superintendent of schools. Lyman Hann.,then <-ounce..superintendent of schools,, and E M Webb. Bertie's superintendent. were on the committee They compiled figures from every school in the state They studied buying school supplies.! school bus routes, class site. s<-h6ol I site and every possible school cost and question They they added up the answers , j Here is what*they found, as published In a 448 page report en titled "An Evaluation of the Indi ana Public'•Schools.'’ This information Is based-upon the evidence they found, not upon hearsay or uplnioii ! 1 -’ft I? Impossible for a school j unit to--,provide reasonable services 1 at a low cost unless it includes at least -1.50,0 pupils! Even this sixe unit Is more costly per pupil to the taxpayer than one of 5.000 or 10,000 children, unless some services can be provided together with nearby, school units 2 It Is not economical to build; a school unit about “each ;school. I even a fairly large school. or even about a town or’ village These are too small to give the services needed at a reasonable cost . 3 Better school districts will re-1 suit only through careful planning Il is not safe to depend on vohin tary consolidattnns of our units These may be poor ones, because wealthy units tend to join withi other wealthy units, excluding poor units which needed the aid Also. ' some units which must be inclnd ed In a good program might hr completely omitted ffom a volpn tary- one 4 School units shou-ld be the same as civil divisions where these, are big enough to Include the neces sary student?. t« aid asseasing pr<e party values and collecting taxes Adjustments should be made, how ever, in rural areas, to Include all territory which should be servcd.lv permanent school centers in a schooLanlt , 5, A school unit should Include regularsHai'hrrs and principals .foreach school, a well-qualified super Intendent of schools, a director of instruction tn plan an adequate program for Improving Instruction and school books! a physical education audiovisual music, art and special 1 '

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program staff, a superintendent of i srh»m>l buses, janitor, purchaser for * supplies, budget constructor, etc. ;i Unless such services are provid- ! ed through a trained staff, they will be costly and generally unsadsfaci tory. the group f<hmmL~..To..provide these services for the children economically, the miaimiun site school unit Is necessary. Why? Figures above show that none of our x*hool units approach the minimum number. Why? Well, nine of : our It s<-h<M>ls are based on civil divisions called townships. None of our 12 townships have enough to make up one of the de- . sired units: in tact, only by dividing the county in half or in thirds could our IJWjhj school children be I given the proper sited sebooU unit/ Not even our two city schools. ; Decatur and are large enough t«r'ongrate as economically as would be possible if they would join with other township M‘Jio<dJU-4o form a larger school unit" -This would, not mean doing away with township s<*hools. the survey . points out Actually, there would be an increase inutile, number of schools, because more, not less, schools alre needed What it U'uuld do away with is this. 1 Poo/ school buying our small er sch</ols buy. their equipment at retaiLprlces. Larger units, through :h4 ir -■!{>. riiih nd? nt buy a! wholesale. saving much money Take paint. for example It takes 320 ; gallons of paint to paint Jlecatur's high.school every four years Think |of the difference in retaArf'and wholes*.le prices for that paint! Township schools are still buying I at retail. i 2 Bus routes- larger units would do away with the great overlapping of present school bus Routes. For .example, Adams' Central bus routes will cost 55.000 a year less, than the oM —Kirkland, ’ Monroe and Washington routes which are still in »ffvct. 3. Health last year the first ’ check eVer made of township School water supplies showed that more than half of the achooia gave pob , luted water to our children Trained superintendents in charge of toirge school units know how to protect the health and safety of ,cMI- . drew. ’ I Better teachers Hood reach- | ers don’t like to go to small schools where they are hired or fired at the will oTTkeTownship trustee, a man who has no special qiialificaJ tlons for the job of school manager Os colyse, there are reasons, i many good, some bad for answer to 1 why our schools aren in such shape. Let’s examine the development of 1 schools in Indiana and in Adams i i county. - ' ’ -j • (The swpnd-and Hoal article will | .ipjM-ar later this week, outlining the development of schoolst 7.1 p lT - 20,000 GE 4<'«wtlN«r4 Frem Oar) trical Workers (CIO) scheduled ; continued negotiations here for a new contract. Another meeting between (hr company and representatives of the Independent United Kle< trical I workers, expelled f<om the CIO I for following the commufiiat* party line. H scheduled for tomorrow unions were still said to 1 be considering a company offer for an improved pension, plan Wage demands were still in dis pule Try A Democrat Want Ad —It Payl |

Suspend Sentence For Theft Os Auto Ohio Youth Is Given Suspended Sentence Richard L. Allen, 18. of Alger, 0.. waa aeiitenced to U> day, in the Adame county jail, fined 123 and costs, totaling"43s. for taking an automobile last Friday without ' the owner's permission. Allen | waa also ordered to pay for damI ages to the car. which belonged I to Helen liydell. of route five. He ; appeared in mayor's court. Allen, a truck driver, was brought here from Van Wert, where he was fined $54 and given ten days in jail, with the sentence suspended. Alien spent last Thursday night in Decatur with a cousin, and , loafed around town all day. ac- ! cording to his confession. About I »:3<t Friday evening he got In an ’ argument with his cousin aboul how fast his ear would go. so he attached wires to the Rydell ear and drove off. His cousin raced him in Allen's car Allen had a flat and ran the car with the tire flat, ruining the wheel. Later he stopped the vehicle and changed the tire by reaching the spare i through the back seat. Then he j abandoned the ear. He was later ’ picked up in Van Wert on reck les* driving charges Speeders Arreatad Tom Lutes. 23 of route 4. was arrested for speeding and fined $1 and costs by justice of the peace Floyd Hunter early this morning Lutes was arrested at 1:25 this morning after the car -he was driving struck a parked car Im* longing to Norman P. Leonardsoti. of Djecatur, at the intersection of ! Fifth and Third streets. Damage waa estimated al 5150 to the Lutes | vehicle and 175 to Ix*onardson'a

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car After striking the Leonardson car he struck a street light, breaking the globe valued at s4u. according to the city police. Rolwrt Wolfe, of 239 North 13th street, was also arrested for speeding on Mercer avenue Tuesday. Wolfe ia to appear before Hunter at 7 o’clock tonight. Theft Reported The firm of Custer & Smith, attorneys. reported to the city police that someone had entered their office and stolen between S2O and 125 The entries, three -or spur of them, have been made try someone with a key' to the office. they report. Grata Storage Improved, prefabricated grain bine developed through research by the department of agriculture now provide a practical mean. es . long Ume storage of grain on farina.

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