EDUCATION SPECIAL
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A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida,
FOUNDEIX4886, AT RALEIGH, N JC.
Vol. XXIX. No. 27
SATURDAY, JULY 4
$1 a Year; 5c a Copy
Some Questions About Your 'keal- Schools
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A NORTH CAROLINA CANNING CLUB DEMONSTRATION
The Future Educational System Must Fit Our Farm Boys and Girls for the Practical Problems of Life
1. Have you voted a local tax? You can never have the sort of
schools you ought to have until you do.
2. Have you consolidated with any other school district? Two to
two and one-half miles is not too much for the children farthest from
school-provided they get a decidedly bet
ter school by it, as they can do by consoli
dation. 3. Have you a school library ? ' If not,
get one.
4. Is the schoolhouse painted, adorned
with worthy pictures, and the grounds ample
and beautiful? The schoolhouse is the
children's home, and that home should be
as attractive as anybody's home.
5. Is tne building equipped with suitable
desks?
6. Are agriculture, health, and domestic
science subjects given equal attention with
geography and history?
7. How many boys are studying agri
culture? 8. How many boys are enrolled in the
Corn Club?-
Educational Progress in South Car
How Cooperation Remade a Ten
nessee School 6
Reading in the Farm Home ... 10
Rotation of Crops 4
Schools Should Emphasize Classics
Less. Work More ...... 18
Suggestive Plans For Your County
and School District. . ... . 13
What Consolidation Has Done for
Bullock Creek School ... . . 6
Wool Growers Urge Legislation . 14
Warring Against Illiteracy in the
Old Dominion 5
9. How many girls in Canning Club Work ?
10. Did your school take part in the last County Commencement
or exhibit at the last County fair?
11. Is a compulsory attendance law enforced? If not, what pro
portion of the children are in average at
tendance? The tax-payers are paying to
have all these children educated. Are you
going to let them grow up in ignorance, to
the hurt of themselves and the community?
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12. Do you have an annual commence
ment with certificates of award for pupils
who have distinguished themselves in at
tendance or scholarship?
And these are only a few df the many
stimulating questions that will present them
selves to you in studying this "Educational
Edition" of The Progressive Farmer. Talk
them over with your neighbors and your
school committee and resolve to have the
best there is for the boys and girls of your
district and county.