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Ch B o 1 ristiansted Theatre. On accouni of unioreseem circumstances, the Show ad- | vertised for Monday Septem- ber 6th has had to be post- | poned to MONDAY SEPTEM- BER 13th. : s - { PROCEEDINGS | OF THE | COLONIAL COUNCIL FOR ST. CROIX (Continued from yesterday’s Avis.) ; On July 17, 1911, I then remarked: 3 ‘“lst member for Chritiansted Town | (Stakemann) remarked ““The Council appreciates the great “work which had been ‘laid down in | “‘this draft for which the most credit ‘“is due to the School Director. But all ‘‘such work will always meet with | ‘‘some criticism On the whole he had ““not much to say against it. He | “thought that the Council would es- | “pecially appreciate the idea of the “‘children’s helping with the crop, a | “‘principle known in Denmark and in | “‘our neighboring islands.” It would be | “‘a help to the Planters, but principally | “‘learn the children to work manually. | “With regard to the private schools “‘we were on a ground, where we must “*be eareful. The middle classes here “‘are in poor ecomical circumstances, | “‘they cannot pay the High School fees | ““demanded at the subsidized High | “‘Sechool. Now we bave the High | ‘School, that is well supported but | ‘‘with High School fees, and a certain ! “‘slass of people who may wish to give | “rheir children a better ¥ducation and | ‘to keep them out of the Free School, | “‘have not the means necessary to send “their children to the High School. | “There should be a place, where to | ‘“send them, but he fears that the | “stringent measures of this Ordinance “‘respecting the private schools, will ' “‘entirely eliminate this sort of schools, “‘As long ss children obtain as good an “‘education as is offered then in the | ““Free Schools, the public. can demand “‘no more. ‘“‘He was of the opinion, that it is in- ‘‘fringing too much on the right of the ‘‘private man to demand thatall teach- “‘ars in the private schools shall be sub- ‘‘ject to an examination by the Board ‘*as prescribed in Par. 45. : “‘lst Member for Christiansted Town ‘"(Stakemann) read a letter from the - ““Ministry of Public Instruction of Sep- “tember 24. 1864, and 'said that the 88T CROUIX A Yl S ““Ministry in this fetter with regard to “privately instracted children bad. (1) ' That it must be left to the - Mubnicipal ‘‘Board itself to decide whether the in- “‘struction given the children is satis- “‘factory. |2] That the Parents need ‘“‘no permission to appoint such Private "‘Teachers as they please and that the ‘“‘guarantee for Instruction given the “*Children is satisfactory, is consisting “‘in the School Board’s right to demand “the children to agn@®r at the balf- “‘yeariy examination. He should think “‘that the same ‘rules would be suffi- ‘‘cient out here. : - the member continuing said, To this [ can furthermore add Letters from the Minis- ter of Public Instruetion of July 18, 1854, and April 14, 1864 in which it is stated that No p-rmission is required to establish “‘private schools.”’ and also tetter from the said Minister of Public Instruction of February 26, 1873, in which 1t is stated that: ““N¢ one can be forbidden td maintain ‘‘a private school on -account of insuffi- “‘cient personal qualification.’”’ the member continuing,—l will also quote what I said in'the Council. ; ‘“lst Member for Christiansted Town ““(Stakemann) said, that in the Com- ‘“‘mittee’s meeting he opposed the “‘clause in Par. 63 (originally Par. 62), “now in .the Committee’s report pro- “‘posed struck out. because the said “‘clause if retained, would make the | “‘Sehool Director.the immediate superi- | “‘or of the entire teaching staff, conse- | “‘quently also of the Teacher’sin all “‘private and not subsidized schools “*and of Teachers engaged fcr private | ‘‘home instruction; the majority in the “‘Committee could not deny, the clause | “‘had that meaning. But what was | ‘‘the owner of a Private School then. | ““The speaker ‘opposed vehemently | ‘“‘such an enactment, and it was then “‘first ‘proposed to alter the clause to ‘“‘‘mmediate superio: of the teaching “‘staff of the Communal School, but | “‘at last it was agreed to strike the | “‘whole clause out. l ““From His Excellency the Vice- | ““Governor's remarks the speaker had, | “however, now got the impression | ‘“‘that the School Director’s said superi- “‘ority, nevertheless was acknowlegded | “and maintained in other of the enact | “ment of the Draft. E “*The School Director cannot be su- ! “‘perior of the Teachers of the Private | “‘Qehools or of Teachers engaged for | ‘“‘Home instruction, and no other con- | ‘*trol of the private schools and of “‘the Home Instruction can be exér- ‘“‘cised by the School Director than ‘*what is necessary in order to ascer- | “‘tain whether the instruction given | “reaches the standard of the Commun- | “*al Schools—no other or better instrue- | ‘“‘tion can be demanded—and the ! “*School Direcior needs not to be the “immediate superior of the Teachers “‘for. this purpose. If a person f. i., “engaged a teacher to instruci his “‘children at home, the school Director “‘can demand more, if he is superior “‘of the Teacher; andif a person owns “‘a private school, he is the superior “‘himself and appoints his teachers “‘and d:smisses them, but if the School “‘Director superior of the Teachers in “‘such a private School, he can order ““them to teach the pupils something ““more than they do and dismiss them, “‘if they do not comply with his order ““The School Director is for the "‘Public Instruction, he lis superior “‘of the Communal Schools, but ne ‘“has, as.-it runs in Danish only, “Tilsynet”’ i. e., rght to supervise ‘“in the private schools. As far as “‘concerns those private schools which “‘receive a subsidy from the public it is “of eourse in the power of the public “‘to make whatever conditions as to the “‘control by the School Director as may "‘be required for the granting of uch “‘subsidv. The Speaker was speaking "‘of the private not subsidized schools “‘and of the Home Instruction, and that ‘‘'was also what was held on in the “Committee’s Meeting about the School "‘Director’s Superiority. "'The question can come up again, “‘and therefore the Speaker felt him- “‘self obliged to express the opinion held “‘by the Committee when drafting and ""adoptiag the proposed amedment to “Par. 63 [62], namely that the School "‘Director can never be the Immediate “*Superior of the Teachers of the Pri- “‘Schools, nor of teachers engaged for ""Home Instruction. ““The Speaker was sorry to hear the “Government held the opinion, that the “‘amendment proposed had not been “*sufficient in this respect, but that the “‘ordinance still acknowledged the “‘School Director as Superior of those “‘Teachers, the Speaker has mentioned. "*His Excellency has now brouglit “‘the question up; te Speaker as Mem “‘ber of the Committee held an opinion “‘quite contrary and the Speaker now “‘hoped his Execellency would acknow- ‘‘ledge that the Draft does not in the “‘other provisions make the School Di- ““rector the immediate Superior of the ‘"Private Teachers spoken of, other- ‘‘wise he was sorry to say, he would “‘have to introduce a new amendment ““in order to make it certain and un- “‘doubtful, that the Ordinance does “‘not acknowledge the School Director ‘‘as the immediate Superior of tle ““Teachers spoken of. “'The Acting Viece-Governor would “‘first remark to the Honorable Ist “*Member for Christiansted = Town “*(Stakemann), that the difference b:- ““tween them in his opinion only was “‘caused by their different interpreta- ““tion of the word ‘'Superior’’; he does “‘not take the word in the same sense ‘‘as the Honorable Member. The Hon-