The rural schools of Johnston County will open next Monday, the opening this year being a week later than last year. This gives a week longer for the boys and girls to help house the crops, and the favorable weather this fall will combine to make it possible for a large number of pupils to enter school the first day. The consolidation program which has been carried out wherever practicable has reduced the number of white schools in the county to 84, and the assistant superintendent Miss Mary E. Wells informs us that teachers have been secured for all the schools. Resignations in the last few days, however, have caused a few vacancies which will be filled as rapidly as possible.
Never before, perhaps has so much interest been shown in the schools. More trucks than the county superintendent can supply are in demand. The work will soon be in full swing, the long term schools having already gotten under way.
Last Saturday the 7th grade teachers of the long term schools except those operating under special charters met Miss Wells here and planned the work of the 7th grade by months. The following schools were represented: Benson, Kenly, Four Oaks, Princeton, Meadow Pine Level and Wilson’s Mills. Four Oaks has an unusually large 7th grade, there being 90 pupils in the grade. Other departmental meetings will probably be held during the year.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1923
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