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Vol. VII.—No. 17.
RALEIGH. N. C. APRIL 24, 1913.
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Agriculture and Domestic Science in the Public High
Schools
N. W. Walker, Professor of Secondary Education in the University, and State Inspector of Public High'Schools
The law passed by the Legislature
a few weeks ago providing for the
teaching of agriculture and domestic
science in public high schools is a
law of far-reaching importance. In
an article published in The State
Journal three weeks ago, I called at
tention to the fact that Guilford
County’s Farm Life School law had
been amended and made to apply to
each county complying with the pro
visions, of this act.
(2) Schools receiving the benefits
of this act shall be under the control
and management of a board of trus
tees to be composed of the members
of the County Board of Education,
the chairman and the secretary of the
trustees or committee of each school
in which such departments are main-
a
miles of the corporate limits of
city or town of more than five thou
sand inhabitants.”
(4) For the maintenance of such
school or schools the County Board
of Education “shall provide annually
out of the public school fund, or by
donation, or local tax, not exceeding
twenty-five hundred dollars.” Any
school applying for the benefits to be
Domestic Science Ciass, Jamestown Pubiic Hi»h Sebooi. Canning Fruit.
JIrs. E. J. Coltrane, Teacher of Domestic Science.
the whole State. Since that article
appeared I have received a number
of inquiries from high school princi
pals and others as to the provisions
of this law. It may not be amiss,
therefore, to summarize briefiy the
provisions of the act. They are, sec
tion by section, as follows:
(1) A department of agricultural
instruction and a department of
training in domestic science and
home economics shall be maintained
in one or more public high schools in
tained.
(3) After advertising and inviting
bids, the County Board of Education
designates the school or schools at
which these departments shall be
maintained, giving due consideration
to “the financial aid offered for main
tenance and equipment, desirability,
and suitability of location; provided,
that no such department shall be es
tablished in a school which is locat
ed in a town of more than one thou
sand inhabitants nor within two
derived under this act shall provide
adequate buildings, dormitories, la
boratories, apparatus, and a farm of
not less than ten acres of arable
land, all of which equipment must be
approved by the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction before any
State or county funds are available
for the purposes of this act.
(5) The purposes of such schools
shall be to give the public of the
county instruction in the branches
(Continued on page 6.)
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