School District No. 20 v. Bryan

Citations

• 51 Wash. 498
• 99 P. 28
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1218

Syllabus

<p>Schools and School Districts — Common Schools. A common school, within Const., art 9, S 2, means one that is common to all children of proper age and capacity, free, and subject to, and under the control of the qualified voters of the district.</p> <p>Same — Funds—Apportionment—Com won Schools' — State Normal Training Department. Under the constitutional and statutory provisions differentiating between the common school and the normal school, a model training department of a state normal school wherein a portion of the school children in a district are given instruction which they would otherwise receive in the district schools, is not a part of the common schools of the state, within Const., art. 9, § 2, requiring the common school fund to be applied exclusively to the support of the common schools; as such a department is not under the control of the districts or common to all children of proper age or a part of our uniform system of schools, and its main purpose is to benefit the normal pupil; hence Laws 1907, p. 180, §4, apportioning part of the common school fund of a district to the maintenance of such a model training school is void.</p>