C.L. Cates protests College Professors Inspecting High Schools, Oct. 27, 1921

School Superintendent Protests

Mr. C.L. Cates, superintendent of the Wadesboro Public Schools, does not favor the plan which has been suggested of having members of North Carolina colleges inspect the state high schools. “We protest,” he says in a letter to Professor J. Henry Highsmith, state inspector of high schools, “that this plan, while it may satisfy the ambitions of some of the colleges, will not promote the best interest of the high schools.

From the front page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Oct. 27, 1921