North Wilkesboro, Dec. 10—Superintendent C.C. Wright, head of the public school system of Wilkes county for 26 years during which period of time great progress has been made in education, made the following statement tonight:
“The extract from the California paper stating that school at Boomer, Wilkes County North Carolina, is taught in a windowless shed and that the children are going to school barefooted and almost naked is absolutely false. I visited the school at that place in October and found an excellent three-teacher school, children well clothed and apparently happy. The building at that place is one of the best rural school buildings in the county, containing three classrooms, library, etc. This community is one of the best in the county. The citizens in the main are progressive and well to do.”
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, Dec. 11, 1925
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