What’s Wrong With
Schools? State Expert to Help Reach Solution to Grave Problem in City School
Dr. L.A. Williams for the School of
Education at the State University will be in Elizabeth City next Monday and
Tuesday to make a survey of the city’s public schools, and on Monday night at
the court house he will make a public address in which he will make known what’s
wrong with the schools and what to do about it.
This is a most important meeting and
every one interested in putting our schools abreast of the best schools in the
State should attend and hear what Dr. Williams has to say.
Our schools have reached a crisis in
their history. There has always been an insufficient amount of money to run the
schools as they should have been run, and in consequence, a large debt has been
incurred which has injured the school’s credit with the banks, and they have
refused to extend further credit.
The attendance at the schools has
increased to such an extent that the schools have been overrun with students
and the capacity of the buildings has been exhausted. A normal increase of
attendance next year will be about 150 new students, and unless some buildings
can be rented it will be impossible to take care of all the children of school
age, and at that, there will be a shortage of funds to employ competent
teachers.
It was the intention of the School
board to ask for a bond issue to secure funds to erect another building this
year, but in taking the preliminary steps for an election it was fund that an
act of the legislature would be necessary before an election could be held, so
this delays the building project another year.
There are now enrolled in the white
schools 1,425 pupils and over 800 in the colored schools.
There are 38 teachers in the white
schools and 12 in the colored.
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