Study - School Segregation From The Spokesman-Review March 28, 1924

Tue., May 25, 1999

Mr. Childers Suggests Board Find Out Facts and Report

To the Editor of The Spokesman-Review: The bond issue for a third high school in Spokane was no doubt defeated by the votes of property owners and real estate taxpayers who feared the increased burden on an already too heavy tax. Property owners cannot afford to neglect their votes in such cases and it is clear that property owners, as a rule, voted against the bonds. If the result in our precincts, where almost every resident owns his home, are taken as a criterion:

A third high school would mean more than the cost of a new building. It would mean additional teachers and equipment. The people who pay the bills are thinking these days.

Why not practice economy in our school system wherever possible? One of our present high schools could be used as a girls’ school and the other as a boys’ school, under a platoon system. Our schools would be greatly improved under such a scheme. Every student would go there to study without any side issues. Not so in our present system.

Would it not be advisable for our school board to investigate sex segregated schools to learn what results are obtained? At any rate, the people of Spokane have confidence enough in the present board to abide by its action, whatever it may be. John Childers Spokane.

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