Raleigh, Nov. 4 (AP)—Capital City school officials are faced with the problem of children getting to school too early.
It is all due, they aver, to one of the commercial telegraph companies discontinuing the practice of telling the time by telephone. The result is just the opposite what was expected.
Certain that there would be a substantial increase in tardies upon the new system, city education officials called for reports covering the first few weeks that the children got off to school without the benefit of correct time.
To their amazement they found no increase at all, but strong indication that some teachers were worried because their charges were getting to school anywhere from 15 minutes to a whole hour ahead of time.
Attempts to explain the phenomena have been boiled down to this:
At first they started coming early to make sure they wouldn’t be late. They showed that they didn’t trust family timepieces and rather than have a tardy mark entered against them, they gave themselves a wide margin. Then they found that getting to school early they could get in more play time. Consequently instead of getting later, they commenced arriving earlier.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 4, 1926
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