The article on School Attendance, contributed by Mr. J.R. McQueen, in this issue of the Citizen is good food for thought.
As Mr. McQueen so clearly puts the facts, we should get value received for the large amount of money that is spent every year on the Moore County Schools, and the surest way to get value received is having every child of school age attend school regularly during the session.
There is a very good excuse to offer for the low record of attendance at the Southern Pines School. The fact that Southern Pines is a Resort Tow with a continually shifting population makes it an impossibility to maintain a good attendance record, but communities like Cameron, Vass, Aberdeen and Carthage should have a very high attendance record.
It is far from complimentary to the residents of Moore County that an Attendance Officer should be deemed necessary but after reading the facts and figures that Mr. McQueen gives us, there is evidently an urgent need for this official in Moore County.
In order that the Attendance Officer may accomplish good results, it is absolutely essential that every parent and teacher in the county will cooperate whole heartedly with this official in an honest effort to have every child of school age attend school.
Putting it in a cold-blooded way, it means getting your money’s worth.
From the editorial page of The Sandhill Citizen, Friday, January 2, 1925
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