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.SCHOOL FKLS FOU PAV! KR CHILDREN. I 011^—seeing you ban in ")Ur paer of this cute brought my name prominently forward with ?tp"?, to a "Iution passed a few weeks Binoc by the Newport Hoard of (..u?rdi?ntjehoctdbc ubt?td to I yon alijo to pubheb the following remarks, which may pO.Bibl, m?e my vie?< deara than your article does. I would say, firH of all, that I do not refer to the laat AmeudeJ kcucation Act apparently alluded to in yortr article, which allows children to ba "hetped by boards of gourdiauji (I suppose yon mean have tLur echool ftea paid without being made paupere but to the A..t of lb73, with the i/ocal üovern. uitnt Board orders attached thereto, under which no parent can receive out-door roiiof unless bi8 or h.. childr"u .n:hu. ouch an age attend school and it is further ordered that if the relieving officer hiida in any one weok that the ciildfja ate not attending school according to the Act, he is to withhold at once from the parents all relief given tinder the order of the guardians, and rdpu. the case to them, Tte relieving-ofticer has there. lore in Lis hands the strongest "toJ" ser^w tj enlcree their attendance, and oue whioh he I. realiy bound to put in force whevher he likes it or not. You remark correctly th,t I Bay, to deduct M an attendance from tho school fees allowed I ,r every titne a child is absent is a fine on the IICh nl funds; andyouadd, 14 How th%tcan bois duiijuli to understand," If it is not that, 1 can only .k what is itr The Local Government Board say a the relieving officer shall see that the child attend school during each week. The reeolotion of the guard says ""Lt they WIÚ aq."t id. per _tt.. -d.,?- ,.ry- the child is abe.t, from the payment otherwise to be made to the 10hOol funds, wbereaa he conld not bo abaont if th, relieving ofticer carried out his instructions. Of course, the relieving. officer CAnUQt "be ac every hou?e door," but he must LKert&iii at the ?.?b-I if the pauper children are in regular d iinot t?p relief. "ü cÚdÜ:t for one week you Would h,?t?r no m .re oomniaints of irrwular attendanm, and wonLd probably :in that one week Bave tho ratepayem as muoh &a a <itJ)Ar'8 fees for a child, vi 1 see yonr article agrees with Colonel Lyne's view that to deduct the id. fee when iii,, ctiiii i, absent will save the ratepapen* money; surely that is altogther a fallacy. Theiiducauou L>uparu ment directs in each parish or distriot what school accommodation and teaching power muat be supplied; therefore, though it may differ k, iitt.e according to economy, thors is a distinct exuon«e to be met. I will take the case of board schools, lhere are three sourtvea of income to moet 1, Government grant; 2, school feeej a, Hchool Jate to mmt w?tever doncleucy reuiaina. Government grant oooeütø of the payment 0/ 6d. per b=::oei:r"1ndii:i:ne good) for the .?ertwo uumt er iu attenJfmea during the ,,h-l year; and further, of a p..ible a.. of 138. per head, the reeult of individual examin? tion. Article 20, new code, says, "The average number in atteudanee for any period is found by adding together all the attendances of all the scholars for that period, and dividing the sum by the number of tunes the Bchool has met within the same period. The quotient is the average number in attendance." Take, therefore, the case of two echoola, each containing 20 pauper scholars (their sharo 01 the expense of the school OOJ'4: fully .£30), the school in each case being open -too times in 4V weekø. Iu school Mo. 1 the children make In attend. atees per week, and their capitation grant come, LO I ?: 4,, out as follows 400 20 x (ia, M. Their individual examinations would average It?ite 9.. I.r l??.d b??,id.. 20 b 0b i2>. 'I \Ii: ;:hr No. 2, aa e;g by Ctfel LTe might be the case, the children only average two attondancep a week. Their capitation grant romee out 4uy~ ? ? ? ? -S? ?. If four oiild out -n 4t-?) -1 so 6s. £1 46. If four ODllld be preseuted in examination they would earn, say XI ltJe,, but no child would bo eligible lor presen- tation unleBB he had attended more than six time. u week for the ill weeks, so at the end of the year the account would etaud- •S "IIOJI 1, Cruut .tl, 0 0 •it-Hie (Poor-iat^r) 8 e SfTotalfrom mOjO Scliool-Into BaUueo 6 16 3 4 I a e LIS 0 0 £ 30 0 0 Bchool 2. ti.ut 1.11,1 0 00 Peace (Poji-n.it!) lt, 113 ) Totul (lom 0 0 School-rute LaluLoe „. i6 6 8 I 4 17 0 0 £ 30 0 0 At the rate of itl, p-?r at!eu<1aIlce Ie tbie lAving the .tear These are of course extreme oases for the sake of illustration j but the worse the attendance the iflore thefinancial condition of a aohaol appro&eheH that of No. 2. The fact is, teachers and ma- uagers care far more than anyone else for regular attendance; they would much rather not have scholars at 1111 who are so irregulur m to make any sensible differemm to the school fees (under the resolution in clue4#jon)?; they are simply detri. w-t&l, in a tia..i.1 and ver other point of :lninvoiU:=o:bï: th:i: throw tbe extra exiie? on tho 8nb.oriber. and 80 certainly nave the pockets of non-subsoribing ratepayers. My argument is solely that the re- solution of the guardians is inconsistent with the Education Aot and the Looal Government Board order, and, therefore, should not be enforoed. It is a point that oould not pos- aibly be decided by any amendment moved at the board of guardians, but only by the boards above. I beg to say we h&vo not, as Btated in your report of Saturday's meeting, refused to admit any child to these Bchools cu such terms, but if you refer to the Aot you will see that i. the propor course laid down to be adopted in such oases. The guar. dians would then have to stop relief and refer the matter to the Department, which will then decide if such refusal is made "on other than reason- able grounds." I hope to avoid this inconvenient tost by asking directly the opinion of the board abovo. If the resolution is acoording to law I shall be satisfied with it if othorwiso, it ought to be rescinded. I have no further feeling in the matter. Aiiologising for so long a oommu- nication, I am, Ac., JOHN CLERE SCOTT DARBY. I Blachen Rectory, Msy 23.

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