For a Billionaire
State
Manifestly, the teachers in the elementary public schools of
our State are turned out to grace on many short commons.
As a result two-thirds of our public school teachers last
year abandoned teaching, and two-thirds of our public schools are this year
taught by raw recruits.
No wonder 700 of our common school rooms are closed. And no
wonder 7,000, or nearly half of our common schools, are in the hands of
sub-standard teachers taken temporarily in the emergency.
It’s a crime against the children of North Carolina.
If the public conscience will submit to this condition of
things without any protest, then our rich state is hard-hearted and
tight-fisted beyond words.
If we cannot or will not rise to this emergency in North
Carolina, then we may well doubt the kind of salvation that lies in wealth alone.
Our riches are greatly increased, but why set our hearts
upon riches if our children’s minds are to be completely starved?
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