Summer school helps the town of Holland to determine the cost of education.

The town of Holland was voting on this day in 1818, about what might be owed to Moses Blake and Eber Robinson. Blake and Robinson had kept a school in their section of the town during the summer of 1818, educating seven children.

The town voted to pay them $10 for their work. This seemed like a reasonable sum to the townspeople, so they also voted on this day to establish this as a benchmark for the pay scale due educators.

It was resolved that anyone providing schooling for children during the upcoming year could expect to be paid a proportionate equal rate of the amounts that had been approved and paid for the current year.

The Vermont Book Of Days photo.

December Archives | December 29