Paper Supports Annexation of Section Outlying Southern Pines Schools, Oct. 15, 1926

Stand by the School Children. . . Opportunity for Children in Outlying Section to Attend Southern Pines School

On Tuesday, October 19, an election will be held in the rural territory surrounding Southern Pines to determine whether or not to annex that territory to the Southern Pines school district.

The purpose is to give the children of the outlying section the privilege of attending the Southern Pines schools. It is quite generally recognized that Southern Pines has one of the best school systems in the state, with a standing not only as a capable educator, but also a system that enables its high school children to enter the colleges of the state on their certificates. The colleges recognize Southern Pines as a high class school.

The problem of the country child has been one that for years people all over the state have undertaken to solve, and in this vicinity consolidated schools have been one help, in most of the villages of the country of school districts have been so consolidated that the country children are taken to the town schools and there enjoy the advantages of grades, longer term, more skillful teachers, and everything that helps to secure an education. Now the territory surrounding Southern Pines is to vote on entering the Southern Pines district.

If the vote is favorable, as the indications appear to say, the children of the neighborhood of Southern Pines will be take to the school in automobiles provided for the purpose and brought home at night. They will have access to all the better equipment and bigger force of teachers with the benefits of the systematic grades, and all of the advantages of any modern school of its class and size. It is the chance for the country child to realize the same broad opportunity that the town and city children all over the state enjoy, and Tuesday ought to be a chance that every voter will embrace to give the rural child this privilege.

Everything else should be forgotten on that day until the children have been helped to the extent of a vote, and if the chance offers any missionary work that can be done in behalf of the child should be undertaken. It is the child’s chance. It deserves unusual effort that the children may be given what they can have if the voters will on Tuesday keep the child’s welfare in mind and do what can be done for this school plan.

From page 6 of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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