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THE YANCEY RECORD Established July, 1936 ' ARKE7 !TREK A FOX ~(&PUBLISHER3 '£ EDITOR 3 T. L. BROWN * . SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership Second Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959 NUMBER ONE SUB. RATE $2 00 PER YEAR l — « -Overlook Oo Life - 1 By WARREN S. REEVE . The idea of “Overlook” Is taken from the Overlooks provide* tot J viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway. / ■: : _ . ' ■- -—— The re-opening of the schools this week inclines me to consider three basic educational •problems The first is the aim that "teachers and the general public should have in mind as we variously take our respective parts in the suport of the School system." Have we all thought through what the schools are doing for our children, and why they are doing it? A better question would be: What ought they to be doing for our children? Why do we have schools? Let me list several answers that might be given to these questions: 1. Our schools exist in order that we may comply with federal and state laws. 2. Schools serve as a place to keep children out *of mischief, getting them out of their homes for a few hours every day and thus giving a blessed relief to tired or busy mothers and obvia ting the need, in some cases, of engaging baby sitters 3. Schools fulfill their purpose, some might say, if children ac quire a minimum of familiarity with the three “ft's” which is all that is necessary for them to, have in order to get the kind of ( jobs they will want. 4. Schools are places where children learn to get along with other children and to learn co operation . 5. It is the job of our schools to prepare youth to enter colleges or vocational schools. 6. Schools may be thought to be “successful” if the children come out of them as “good” charac ters and “good" citizens. 7. Schools exist to give children and youth and education (educat ion being taken to mean a fair amount of knowledge or informat ion in the areas covered by the courses of study) All seven of the above propositions are, to say the least, inadequate statements of what our schools are and should be doing. Some of the statements are not only inade quate but serious distortions of .und judgment. ft ■!'•* '* I do not know whether I shall succeed in enumerating the ele ments that I would consider es sential in any formulation of the the Board of Education, the ad ministrative officers and the large objectives we (the general public, body of teachers in our schools) should strive after, but I venture to set down the following goals (somewhat in the order of their importance): 1. The ambition to learn and to cultivate the mind is to be nur tured, so that the children will love to study and to master their lessons qnd so that they will have an enthusiasm for their academic IFOR THE BEST \ IN I Motor Tune Up, Body & Fender Repairs f i Front End Alignment, Wheel Balancing } Major & Minor Auto Repairs, Under Coating, Winterizing, ’ I * - ___ With Radiator Repairs I j BY 1- \ j Factory Trained Auto & Body Mechanics } il See | j! Roberts Chevrolet, me. J. BURNSVILLB, N. C. |{ ntANCIfISED DEALEB NO. 1»U $ I work. -2. Everything possible should be done to make children enjoy' trying to excel in studies. -Not only children but the general public should admire excellence more than they do. Pride in doing things thoroughly may be encour aged . 3. I would like to see three other virtues emphasized constan tly in school life: cooperativeness (getting along well with others), responsibility and honesty. 4. The ability to read reasonably well aloud; a love of books; an ability to spell accurately and to write decently these are at tainments our schools should -strictly insist upon. 5. Children should not be pass ed unless they acquire the pre scribed knowledge in mathematics, science* and history. 6. Students should be given an understanding of our civilization and of our government and oi America’s position in the world today. ' 7. For graduation from high school two years work in some j foreign language should be re quired . The second problem I want to ; allude to is school attendance, j Surely more can be done to re duce unnecessary absenteeism in. our schools! Perhaps a publicity s campaign whereby it would be to be a mark of disgrace foi children not to be in schooL when they could be there would be a posible way of dealing with the a situation. The third problem pertains to our provision for the negro child -1 dre n of the community. This has ’ many ramifications into which I cannot go and into some of which ’ lam not qualified to go. But I venture to make a few observa ; tions: ' 1. There has been inadequate s communication between the races. * Many of the white people do not : know what the colored people are ‘ thinking, and many of the colored ! people do not know what the white people think and feel. In ! order to increase communication, ■ would it be feasible for the Bur • nsville School PTA to appoint ■ a committee and for the negro PTA (if there is one; or if not, 1 the negro community as a whole) also to appoint a committee these committees to meet toge ther as one joint committee just to talk informally with one ano ther, each to hear the Other's point of view. If neither side tries to dominate the other and if each side would sincerely try to see the point of view of the other, this communication should >e of real help, I suggest. 2. A second observation is “G%at Obituaries > ZEB T. FOX Services for Zeb T. Fox, 82, of Burnsville, who died Friday in the home of a son here after a long illness, was' * held at’ 2:30 p. m. Sunday in Bolens Creek Baptist Church. • f The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson, pas tor, officiated, assisted by the Rev. O. L. Brown. Burial was in McCracken Cemetery here. Surviving are two sons, Lptt Fox of Burnsvile; Frank Fox of j Virginia; and 6 grandchildren. ; Active pallbearers were Arney | and James T. Fox, Roy and James Ray, Nick Huskey, Billy (Ray Riddle, Sidney Bailey and. Kenneth MrCurry. C. BEN MORRISON C. Ben Morrison, 54, of Pom pano Beach, Fla. died Saturday at his summer residence near hWe following a brief illness. ./The body was sent to Fort Lauderdalel Fla., where services were conducted at 2:00 p. m. Thursday in the Chapel of Fair child Funeral Home. ‘ Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Anne Merrill; - one son, Richard C. Morrison of the horde; and two sisters, Mrs. Ray Madden of Detroit, Mich-, and Mrs. Jesse Bauer of Jeannette, Pa. Mr. Morrison was a sales re presentative for the Attwooc' Brass Works of ’Detroit, Mich He had maintained a summe home near here for the past si> years. ‘| 3urnsville seems to me to be th> rind of a comunity where we coult really be pioneers if we would It ought to be possible for us t< work out a right solution to ou problems in race relationship amicably and without any pressure being put on us by outside groups or interests. We can be pioneers in accomplishing delicate adjust ments without violence and even without acrimony, but with pati ence and quiet maganimity. With an understanding of the objectives to be sought in * our school efforts we can with dili gence provide this bit of God’s country with men and women who a generation hence will be retter folks than we are and an iornment to the life of this our .eloved country. 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