BAILEY RUGI D BAILEY, NORTH CALOLINA 1951 PAGE 7 rincipal's Column It seems to me that school has gotten off to a good start this year. The nev/ teachers are trying to pet adjusted and to fit in to the plan of operation for our program. The old teachers arc, for the most part, doins the things re quested of ther.. V'ith ev- erycne-students, teachers, and patrons-pulling to gether this should be one of our best years. Ir. order to =;;;et the lunch pei'iod properly supex’vised, all teachers are staying on the grounds all day thj.s year. Each child is supervised ,v.'hile in the lunch room and those not goin;^ to th.e lunch room are supervised in their rooms and all are super- flULI. HJeover during the visea period on In order ' to steady stream their free play;^round. prevent a - of students from going up town, per missions are limited to • what vre hope to be a min imum. It is hoped also that the closer super vision T,^'ill prevent many accidents like those which occuiTOd last yeai'. Oar School was rirtit at the top in th^ nuni’^ier of ac cidents in t}'.e county and that record should be im proved. During the first 22 days this year on]y one accident v.^as reported. So far tiie short schedule for cotton j^icking seems to be doing very little good in keepinf. attendance \ip. Unless the short sched- ._ule 5±i:ad£jiit.s_.,.ji3i.,.. school, it does not serve its intended purpose. Av erage daily attendance in high school during the first month lacked two being enough to gain an ad ditional teacher. Since six high school students have alreadj'' dropped out, each of us r/ill have to do a little better if we pert to add a teacher, A recent article in Reader's Digest gave the function of public ucation "To child to use give him train him to culcate in ciples of ex- the as ed- train the his mind, to information, thinlc and in- him those prin moral conduct which are the accepted code of our society". That splendid aim to me ^ VISIT THE FRIENDLY STORE THAT GRE W UP WITH BAILE r V “"iK: I r , . - ii. FARIJER ,5c dho GEI^ERAL MERCHAMTS .j. - .•rr-W.’Trr.- A COMPLETE LINE OF GENEf^AL MERCHANDISE (WE ARE THE PARMER's FRIEl'JD) .A/. H. FARMER 6 BROTHER,inc.

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