SECTION TWO-
Daily Absences From Schools In North
Carolina Total 11,124,000 During 1951-52
Less Absenteeism Noted
In Units With Attend
ance Workers
According to the January issue of
State School Facts, the 877,906 chil
dren in average daily membership
during the school year 1951-52 were ,
absent from schools, li, 124,666 days,
rhe average daily absences for the
year totaled 61,800. An average of
seven per cent of all boys and girls
were absent daily.
Absenteeism was greatest among
Negro schools, the percentage being
8.8 or a total of 23,000 daily. For
whites the percentage of absenteeism
was 6.3 or an average of 38,800 daily.
This 1951-52 record was better than j
a number of preceding years during
the past twenty, but not as good as it I
was in 1950-51, which was the best
considering both races. The percent
age for the white race, however, was
best in 1941-42 when it stood at 5.3.
City vs. Rural
Absenteeism among city children is
less than it is among children attend
ing county or rural schools. Total
daily absences, white and Negro,
among county units was 47,226. This
represented 7,5 per cent of the aver
age daily membership.
Among the 72 city units, on the oth- j
er hand, the percentage of daily absen- j
teeism was 5.8, representing a total
average daily absence of 14,574 boys 1
and girls.
Considered in terms of days absent j
the entire school year of 180 days,
there were 8.500.680 absentees by chil
dren enrolled in county schools and
2,623.320 absentees by those enrolled
in city schools. Or another way, the
250.689 children in average daily mem
bership in city schools, constituting
28.6 per cent of the total State aver
age daily membership, were respon
sible for 23.6 per cent of the total
State absences.
Some units had a lower percentage
of absences than others. Among coun-1
tv units the range among white chil-j
dren was from 3.8 per cent in Parc ,
County to 10.8 in Robeson (which in
cludes Indians); or to Graham with
10.6 per cent. An average of 29,142
white children from county units were j
absent each day.
Among Negro schools absenteeism i
ranged from 1.0 per cent in Jackson j
(only 105 pupils in average daily mem
bership) to 20.0 per cent in Nash. A i
10 per cent average is noted for Negro j
schools in the county units. An aver- i
age of 18,084 Negro pupils were ab- 1
sent each day.
Absenteeism among city school chil- [
ilren. as stated, was Pot as great as '
among those from county units. Per-'
Ventage of absences ranged among the
72 units from 3.7 in Burlington to 9.4.1
in Murphy in the case of white chil
dren. Average in these units for |
white children was 5.6 per cent, or
an average of 9,658 daily.
Absenteeism for Negro children at-1
tending school in City units ranged
frm 1.7 per cent in Thomasville to 18.5
per cent in Laurinburg. And the av
erage for all 71 units in which there
are Negro schools was 6.2 per cent,
an average of 4,916 absences per day. l
Twenty-eight county and 34 city
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units had the services of attendance'
workers during the year for which
this discussion is concerned. The at
tainment of regular school attendance
is one of the duties of such workers.
I In the 62 units waving attendance
workers the per cent of absences was i
6.2; in the 110 units not having at-1
tendance workers the per cent of ab-1
fences was 7.7. Thus there were l.§ j
per cent fewer absences in units em- 1
ploying attendance workers than in
those not employing such workers. In j
terms of totals this means that there;
j would have been 7,227 fewer daily
'absences, yearly total of 1,200,860, if I
units not having attendance workers j
had the same percentage of absences i
as those units which employed at-1
tendance workers. Among the units I
| the percentages were as follows:
| 28 county units employing attend- ■
ance workers 6.6% [
j 72 county units not employing at-;
tendance workers 8.1%
34 city units employing attendance
workers 5.7%
38 city units not employing attend
ance workers 6.0%
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eluding every first Friday and first
Saturday of the month at 7 A. M.,
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It is now time to begin thinking
about our garden plant supply for
next season. It usually takes from
five to ten weeks to grow plants from
seed ready to set out' in the gar
den, depending on the kind of seed and
on the temperatures obtainable in hot
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be covered with glass sash, celloglass,
glass cloth, plastic materials or heavy
muslin cloth. Glass sash are the
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good care they will last for many
years whereas the other materials,
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