The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-02
TO IMPROVE OUR PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.

IA Bill to Increase the Efficiency of the
Public Scnool System of North Caro-
lima
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
SECTION 1. That separate scho Is
shall be provided for the children OF
the white and colored races in the
State
SEC 2 That the object of the public
school system is to develop each child
In the State into a self-supporting, self
governing and useful member of soci-
ETY.. To this end the State only obi
gates to help them to help themselves,
and will require hat ali aid rendered
by the State shall be repaid IN personal
services as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 8 The system shall be based
upon the district schools as t present
constituted, and shall be extended to
include districts IN Incorporated towns
n cities, when favored by q majority
OF their voters.
SEC. 4. Each country district school,
In adduLlOn to it's present holdings,
shall be provided with at least ten acres
OF land for the purpose of a model
farm to teach agricultural and horti.
cultural sciences; ana both country
and town district schools shall be
gradually provided with workshops
for training boys in the mechanical,
and girls IN the domestic industries,
most needed in the locality in which
the school is situated.
SEC 5 For the purpose of educating
teachers for the district schools each
county II the State shall provide itself,
as hereinafter prescribed, with two
separate traces of and containing not
lers than twenty five acress in each,
and shall erect upon the same suitable
buildings to constitute separate county
academies for the white and colored
races, each provided with separate dor
mItOries for the two sexes, also with
the necessary class rooms, and work
shops suitable for the industrial train
ing o. pupils of both sexes
SEC 6 For the purpose of educating
teachers for the county academies, the
State College of Agricultural and Ne
chanlc4l Sciences. at Raleigh, the State
Normal and Industrial School at
Greensboro, and the State Agricultu
raj and Mechanical College Cor col
nred boys), at Greensboro, shall be
utilized. Provided, however, the said
institutions shall be hereafter desig-
mated as the Safe Normal and In
duslrlal College" for white boys, the
State Normal and Industrial College"
for white girls, and the state Normal
and Industrial College, for cOlored
ooys and girls. The latter college shall
be PROVIDED with separate dormitorles
for bows ard girls.
SEC z E tch of these colleges shall
be provided b! the State with suitable
farm buildings and workshops a. d
suffici-n Mt quantity Of land for training
pupI 8 IN those Industries most needed
Oy the men and women of the State.
SEC 8 Each child in the State be-
tween me ages of seven and fourteen
ears. not mentally or phy sicaIIy inca
p~sci'aCed, shall De required to attend
the District school provided for his or
her race. Thereafter, until the age of
twenty one, attendance shall be op
uOnal
SEC 9 Each child, in addition to the
stuoy OF the usual e. x books, shall
perform g daily task either on the farm
or In the workshop TO help reimburse
their county for the expenses of the
teachers, and also IS "a part of their in
dusrrIal training.
SEQ 10, To avoid the loss of attend
ance on account of Dad weather, and
TO extend the agricultural and horSi
Tural instruction of pupils through the
c%ultivating and harvesting of crops,
The SESSIONS of all public schools shall
Oegln the fret Tuesday In March and
close the last Friday IN November, a
period OF nine months.
FEC IL For the purpose of provid
ing teachers, male and female, for each
District school IN the State, a scholar.
chip shall be awarded by the District
Boards of Education to the boy and
girl In the most advanced class in their
respective District schools, who receive
the highest grade on all studies. Said
scholarships shall entitle the holders
thereof to a years course of instruc
ton at their respective County Acade
mics, including board and cloThIng for
that session. Provided, however, upon
the contract that the recipient shall re-
non thu nn1nntu nv taachinp in its d &