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Photograph by Craig - Professional Photography, Spruce Pine
A float bearing Santa Claus highlighted the
annual Yancey County Christmas Parade
last Saturday. Many Yancey Countians came
out to see the Parade and enjoy the Christ
mas festivities. The South Toe Elementary
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Kindergarten Classes In Yancey County Schools Are
Valuable Aid To Children From Low Income Families
By Bob Helmle
An important advance made
by the Yancey County schools
this year has been the addition
of a kindergarten class in each
of the county's seven elemen
tary schools.
An attractive aspect of this
program for starting formal ed
ucation with children five years
of age is that it costs the coun
ty nothing. All costs are paid
for by one of the Federal pro
grams for aiding education
.particularly for aiding children
from low income families.
The program was started ex
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Children Engrossed At Story-Telling Timet
School float, picturing 'The Old Woman Who
Lived In AShoef, won the First Prism of »ioo
Yancey County Girl Scouts won the Second
Prize of *SO with their Nativity Float, and
flhMt Yancey High’s Health Float won Third.
perimentally last year, when
small kindergarten classes were
held at Micaville and Bee Log.
The value of these classes was
so clearly apparent that the
school authorities decided to
extend the program this year
to all seven schools. This was
possible only because all the
county's elementary schools
were found to have sufflc i e nt
children from low-income fa
milies to qualify for grant aid
under the program.
Unhappily the kindergarten
program is not large enough to
provide for all five-year -old
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10,1970
children. Under the provisions
of the Federal financial aid,
only a single kindergarten
class can be provided in each
school, and each class is limi
ted to 18 pupils, believed to
be the maximum number a
teacher can effectivelyhandle.
Admission to the classes has
been limited to children from
low-income families,who it
is believed can benefit most
from kindergarten training. It
is unfortunate that, with en
rollment limited to eighteen ii
each school, all the children
horn low income families can
not be included.
All the kindergarten teach
ers must meet the requirements
of the regular teaches in the
county schools, and all have A
certificates. Their pay scale
is the same as that far other
teaches. In addition to pro
viding the teaches' salari e %
die Federal funds provide for
all class room equipment and
supplies, free lunches aid snacks
for the children, bus transpot-
Notice
The Yancey County Board
of Education will meet in re
gular session December 11, at
7i30 in the Superintendent's of
fice.
Better Business Bureau Warns
Os Tost Office Box Schools’
If the number of complaints
being made to the Better Busi
ness Bureau is any indication,
more and more people are be
ing "taken" by question a b 1 e
civil service correspond e n c e
schools whose only address is
a post office box number. One
school representative obtained
a signed contract for one school
and then turned around and
sold the contract to an entire
ly different school in another
state whose materials were,to
say the least, cheap and of no
value to the "student." Stu
dents, in many cases, are real
ly adults seeking employment
with the Federal Government
and after responding to a phoiy
"Help Wanted" advertisement
find themselves dealing with
an unknown -
sensing an unknown "school"
and signing a contract, some
times involving over S3OO for
mimeographed information
tation and medical and dental
care. All the children are gi
ven a medical examination by
the school nurse.
Kindergarten is now recog -
nized by education authorities
as desirable for all children,and
the N. C. Department of Public
Instruction appears confident
that within a very few years,
kindergarten will be offered in
all schools and available to all
children. At the present time
North Carolina is one of only
half dosen states which does
not have kindergarten as a
regular part of the school pro
gram.
Kindergarten Class At Play During Recess
that would normally be found
in any public library. In too
many cases reported to 888,
the "student" is asked and does
pay the total amount in ad -
vance. Then when he doesrft
receive anything for his money
the "post office box school"
just disappears and he has no
recourse or means of getting
his money back. The school
later re- appears under a dif
ferent name and different P.
O. Box number. The Better
Business Bureau reminds our
readers that these "civil ser
vice schools" do not offer
any employement and con
sequently are intending to
mislead potential students by
running advertisements in the
"Help Wanted" colum~* *=
—«uuis nave no connection
with the U. S. Government &
cannot guarantee a job,of any
kind, to their students A num
ber of contracts that have
30 me to the attention of the
888 used by some of these
schools are in violation of file
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