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Mission School Superintendent Rev. Edgar Bryant
(standby# calls out spelling words to a couple of the
students. Douglass Mmynor (seated at desk) is getting ^
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ready for the next lesson of the day. On this par
ticular day, one of the regular teachers at the school
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was ill and had to be replaced by the Superintendent.
While there may be 16 children enrolled at the
school, only half the total number of students were
present that day. * '
^Missionviir offering public education alternative
By Ed Miller
There is an alternative to public
schools in Hoke County.
The other choice is called "The
Mission School" and is located in
Missionvill, about six miles out of
Arabia.
"We are recognized by the
United States Department of
I Education as an alternative Indian
school and by the N.C.
Superintendent of Non-public
School," said Douglass Maynor, a
teacher and principal at the school.
All requirements for state
recognition as a school have been
met, Maynor said.
This school, named and built by
the Cherokee Indians of Hoke
County, is a place where children
| can come and get an education,
said Maynor.
"We don't spend any time at
foolishness. When we come in, we
work," he said.
This is the school's second year
in operation.
Last year, children at the school
spent 184 days in class and this
year, classes are planned for I8S
days, said Maynor, adding that the
state only requires 180 days of at
) tendance in a school year.
All subjects are taught at the
school, according to Maynor, in
cluding mathematics, U.S. history
and spelling.
"I would put my upper level (7th
or 8th grade) children up against
any spellers in the state on the
same grade level," said Maynor.
"We have thought about finding
out who wins the state spelling
championship and challenging
them," he said.
The Reverend Edgar Bryant,
Chief of Hoke County's
Cherokees and Superintendent of
the Mission School, spends a great
deal of time helping the students in
spelling and teaching them the Bi
ble, said Maynor.
"We're not just a school. We're
a church, a tribal organization and
a school," he said.
"Education without the Lord is
not education."
Some students at the school need
special help, like in many other
schools.
According to Maynor, there was
a student last year who was
"slow."
He has been given special, in
dividualized help and is now near
the top of the sixth grade class,
said the teacher.
"He is maintaining a 92.3
average. He has come out. A child
is like a flower. You have to make
him bloom," said Maynor.
Last year at the school, the
students were given a standardized
achievement test much as children
in public schools are, said Maynor.
The Miliken Basic Skills Test
was used because, according to
Maynor, it is better than the
California Achievment Test.
"I don't like tests where kids
just have to mark a box. I like for
them to give the answers,"
Maynor said.
Along with Maynor and Bryant
at the Mission, is Sister Rosie Mae
Bryant, who teaches second, third
and fourth grades and is the Assis
tant Superintendent.
However, the superintendent
runs the school, said Maynor.
On one Thursday, the school
observed a religious holiday, and
the children were not in class.
According to Maynor, the Lord
has commanded "pledges" of
their church to take a bottle of oil
and pray for the sick and needy
people on September 27.
He said that classes will resume
on Friday because that is test day.
"The children have four days to
get their lessons together, and we
test them on Fridays."
The school is a simple one, ac
cording to Maynor.
Even though the Hoke County
Board of Education has given
them a hard time, everything at the
school was built with "blood,
sweat and tears," Maynor said.
"We're not out to generate any
money. We're out here to educate
children, live our lives as Cherokee
Indians and serve the Lord. Prayer
is one of the most important
things."
"Above all, we're a mission
school, a Christian school," said
Maynor.
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AH? EDETORIAL
THE.EDETOR
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4 HIS IS BIBLE PROPHESIENQ,OF THE TIMES WE APE LIVING IK,
E CAUSE IT IS.A/f^ EVIL, DAY. THE BIBLE SAIS ONE THING AND THE PEOPLE.
SAIS ANOTHER THEYSA J THERE IS COMING A RAPTURE. AHD ALL .THE PEOPLE ?
WILL BE .TAKE! AWAY,* AHD ONLY THE .PEOPLE. .THAT ARE SINNERS WILL.
BE IN THE TOIHPLATTOirfc^' (BUT) .WHAT DO THE BTHLE SAY)
' '?'ffi'rV ? \ AND SEE WHAT IT SaVs,
? READ MATTHKE fHftPTER r\Zk) _j&
I DO NTT HAVE THE TIME TO i*EAD IT ALLOR .TO. RITE. IT,
VERSE 29 ) SAYS IMMEDIATELY, AFTER THE, TRIBULATIONS .OF. THOSE. DAIS ,
SAYS JESUSTHEN SUN .WILL HOT SHI NE .NETHER WIU^B MOOH,
AHD THE STARS .SHALLF ALL FROM HEAVES .AND THE POWER if^XJF.
HEAVEN SHALL HE SHAKEN ,AMSN,
THE* SHALL .APPEAR. THE .SIGH .OF .THE .SON .OF .MAN . IH .HEAVEN ,
YOU BETTER READ YOUH BIBLE FOR YOUR SELF ,AMEN ,
WHAT I .AM .TRYING TO SAY ,IF YOU ARE ALIVE. WHEN THE TRIBULATIONS COME,
YOU-^RB GOING TO FACE THEM HE READY MY FRIENDS ,
LI SO.1! TO THIS
EVERY BODY GOING TO LEAVE THE EARTH AND GO TO HEAVKH,
LISON TO THIS JESUS IS COMING TO EARTH FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, RAIN,
ARE YOU GOING TO HE WITH HIM, OR ARE YOU GOING TO HE SOME WHERE ELSE,
READ .REVELATIONS ?CH* PTOR ,(20) BETTER READ IT FOR YOUR..SKLF,
AND TO NO WHAT YOU ARE DOING WITH YOUR LIFE.
VY FRIENDS THERE WILLCHE A , GREAT REV1VLE) OH EARTH WHEN JESUS COMES
TO TAKE CONTROLS OF THIS . MISER MLE EARTH, YES THERE IS GOING TO,
BE PEACE. )H EARTH WH^W CBW.S.
NOW Xt * + YOU WILL SAY BUT WE ARE GOING TO OUR NEW KEAVEH,
WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE HERE. 0 YES TOU WILLMY FRIENDS.
IF YOU ARE SAVED , TO AHD ARE ALIVE WHEN HE COMES YOU WILL RAIH.
WITH HIM ON EARTH FOR A, THOUSAND YEARS NOW LISON TO THIS,
IF YOU ARE IH HEAVEN YOU WILL COME HACK TO EARTH TO RAIH WITH HIM*
FQR a A THOUSAHD YEARS BUTLISON TO ,THIS NOT MANY PEOPLE.
GOING TO HEAVEN, BECAUSE THEY ARE LISTENING .TO TOO .MUCH JUNK,
AND NOT THE PURE QOSPOC THE BIBLE IS TRUE LISOH TO IT.
TAKE A. CLOSE? LOOK AT, WHAT AT AM.f TO WRITC *?W?
AgcTOE gPrf^?P"W?OUSAND .YEARS Tffff ALMIGHTY GOD IS .
(JOlt VT THEH WILL BE THE FINAL, JtrboSMStfr,
THE PEOPLE IH HELV- WILL BE JUDGED, ALL. THAT JURE HOT FOUHD ,
IH .THE 300K -OF LIFE.. WILL 00 TO TflE_?8RHtNG HELL, -
I AM,TELLTHG I* I^KE IT IS,. SO ftfc BETTER GET READY.,
I AM IN SPIRED. MI AND MY WIFEMRS ROSIE M BRYANT SHE IS A .PROFHETETH.
OH OOD LIKE MY SELF SHE IS TRYING TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS?
CLEAH3EY0TR SELF" FROM THIS MESS OF SIH WE ARE CALLED OF GOD .
TO TELL THE TRUTH OF TKE WORD OF GOD.AMEH, ur uw ,
AND PEOPLE HATE US BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IH THE WUTH,
SANCTIFY. YOUR SELVES FROM SIH AHD WORLDLY LIVING ,
YOU CAN THR01 THE TRUTH, AMD .LIVE .HOLLYFOR JESUS.
HE GAVE HIS .ALL.FOR.YOITTURN TO HIM BE SAVED TODAY ?AM EH,
._ *2? W EDGAR BRYANT.
AND WITNESS BY MR* ROSIE M BRYANT
AO work and no play ?
These student! at the Mission School or e hard at
study, or art supposed to be. Sitting In their
classroom In the roar section of their church, some of
| the kids are studying mathematics while onf child
takes a spelling test. The school Is taught In a on t
room school house atmosphere with all grades
together. These me If students at the school, accor
ding to Prkelpul Douglass Maynor.
Letter to editor
This recent letter to the editor of The News-Journal
was not published because of poor grammar and
misspellings. The letter was signed and allegedly " rit -
ten " by Rev. Edgar Bryant, the school's superinten
dent and spelling teacher.