A talk by E.W. Knight about school conditions in this township will be the leading feature of the meeting of the Parent Teachers Association in the school auditorium next Monday evening, April 6, at 7:30.
Here are some of the facts that Mr. Knight will discuss:
In seven school districts less than half of the children of school age attend regularly.
There are seven small and ineffective one-teacher schools in Chapel Hill township with a term of only six months.
More than half the children in the Chapel Hill school come from outside the Chapel Hill school district.
There is great inequality in educational advantages in the school district; some children have access to school nine months in the year, others eight, others only six.
Mr. Knight will tell how the smaller schools are wasteful and should be consolidated; and he will emphasize the need of equalizing both the advantages and the burdens of public education in the township.
All citizens, whether they are parents of school children or not, are urged to attend the meeting.
From page 3 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925. School attendance had been made compulsory in North Carolina but fewer than half of school-age children attended regularly.
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