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Disgraceful

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
August
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Detroit seeras to be trotting a. pretty lively clip in the way of sen-i sations and scandals. This time it ' is in the board of education, the board of all boards whose personnel should be clean and above suspicion. Last Wednesday evening while the board was in session, looking after the duties pertaining to the great interests committed to its care, the mayor of the city swooped down upon them, accompanied by officers of the law and arrested four members for alleged boodling. While the sensational method of arrest adopted by Mayor Pingree may be open to criticism, and while the accused are not to be condemned without a hearing, yet it is unfortunate that the great school interests of the city, the most sacred of all interests as well as the most costly, should be placed in the hands of men against whom such charges are possible. Whether the charges of taking bribes are true or not, the air has been full of such rumors for months. Nor is it surprising when the fact is considered that these positions,carrying no emoluments with them are yet sought after by men whose whole training and instincts are the opposite of what they should be for membership of such a board. Ward politicians and heelers, as a rule have no fitness for such positions. They have and can have no appreciation of the duties appertaining to the real work of the board of education and it is a travesty that seats on such a board are within their grasp. Inasmuch, therefore, as there is no pay attached to these positions and the type of men mentioned has no understanding of, or talent j for, that kind of work, what can be their object in seeking the position. I Certainly such men, if they have any appreciation of the proper dui ties of member of a board of education, would be held back by their lack of scholastic equipment and knowledge from seeking a position in which ignorance is so dangerous. It is not suprising that such men are surpected, therefore, when they occupy such places. Detroit owes it to herself to take the board of education out of ward politics, or at least to find some way to improve its personnel.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News