The county board of education has signed the death warrant of one-teacher schools in Guilford County.
The board has finally adopted the policy of not conducting any more one-teacher schools in Guilford and has gone a step further and announced its intention not to conduct any two-teacher schools if arrangements can be made to get along without them.
There were during the year just closed 31 one-teacher schools in Guilford of which 20 were white and 41 were negro. The policy of the board means that not any of these schools will be in operation when the school sessions start next fall. Pupils at all these schools will be cared for in larger schools, with consequently better facilities and teachers.
Coincident with the decision to end one-teacher schools, the board has adopted a further plan in its platform of not having any teachers in the county who do not have state certificates. The policy is expected to raise materially the average of instruction throughout Guilford.
Of the two-teacher schools, 41 were in operation this past year. The board would like to start off next fall without a single one of these in operation, but it is finding it impossible to make the whole step in one stride.
In the case of both one-teacher and two-teacher schools, the new buildings in many parts of the county and the plans of consolidation are handling the situation. The county for the past two years has been witnessing the greatest school building era it has ever known.
--Greensboro News
From the Greensboro News as reprinted on the front page of the Danbury Reporter, July 2, 1924
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