The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-08-31
SPLENDID SCHOOL WORK.
State Superintendent -Joyner Re-
views the Work in Educational
Edition of the News
and Observer.

anu observer.
1. To carry on the work of building and
improving school houses until the 527 dis
tricts without houses in the state are sup
piled; the sos log houses and the scores of
old frame houses unfit for use are re-
placed and every school district in North
Carolina has decent, comfor table, we'll
equipped, properly lighted aud ventilated
school house fit to the home and training
place of the children of the greatest repub-
lie on the face of the earth to the high du-
ties of citizenship and service.
! Q To establish more schools with two or
more teachers so as to render possible more
thorough instruction in the elementary
branches aud instruction in higher branches
by better classification and a reduction of
the number of classes for each teacher, an
increase in the time for each class and the
concentration of teachers efforts on fewer
| subjects.
3. To push the work of consolidation
until all unnecessary little districts are
abolished, so that present available funds
| may be made to go as far as possible to-
ward securing more money for each school,
more schools with two or more teachers,
with more children at one schOOlhouse so
as to economic in house, in number of
teachers, in running expenses and to arouse
more enthusiasm among children and pa
irons by large school doing better work
| with better equipment and a longer term.
f. To push the work of local taxation as
the only permanent means of supplement
ing the school fund from county and state
and supplying the additional money neces-
sary for more teachers, better teachers, bet
| ter salaries, better houses and equipment,
| longer terms, as the only o. making
the rural school somewhat equal in OppOr-
tunities for education to the schools of the
towns and cities, nearly all of which are
and to the schools of other states in the
! United States, 60 peg cent. of which is rails
| ed by local taxation.
3. To establish rural public schools
county, township and distnct-so as to
bridge the gap between the public school
and the college and to offer to all the chll
dren in the rural districts, rich and poor
opportunities of higher training as a pre-
paration for college or better preparation
| for life, giving to all an equal chance to
develop at home all their capabilities with
out haYing to move to town or TO go to ex-
pensive boarding schools beyond the means
of most of them, and lifting the masses of
the people, through higher training, to a
higher plane of intelligence, power, pro-,
gress, prosperity and citizenship.
To get all the children into the schools
and to keep them there for a reasonable
time by cooperative efforts of county su-
perintendent, teachers, committeeman,
boards of education, good citizens of all vo-
cations. by the compelling power of public
sentiment, by the attractive power of bet
ter houses and schools, and, finally, by the
intervention of the strong arm of the law,
if necessary, to prevent irreparable injury
to thousands of children who cannot con-
troll their own actions or be held RESPONSE
BILE for them, and to save them an1 the state
from the ills and dangers of ignorance that
might result from the Indifference, the i-g
norance, the Ihriftlessness. The selfishness
and even the honest and honorable poverty
of parents.
z. To make adequate provision for agri-
cultural and Industrial training after pro-
vision shall have been made for thorough
instruction IN the elementary branches, so
as to better equip the thousands who lead
industrial and agricultural lives for their
important work and make them more DO.
tent factors in the industrial and agricultu-
raj development of the state.
9. To increase aud improve the facilities
for the professional training of teachers, so
as to place them within easy reach, with
small expense, of the rank and file of the
poorly paid rural public school teachers.
9. To keep up ceaseless campaign tor
better salaries for teachers and more mon-
ey to provide such salaries, until men shall
realize that for an average monthly salary
| Of $29. .O5 and an average annual salary of
Sl23. .46-less than paid the rudest workers
in wood and stone, less than is paid the
man that shoes their horse or ploughs their
field, or paints their house, or keeps their
jail; men and women of ambition and
ability, fitted for this delicate and difficult
! work of teaching, cannot be commanded
for it, and that the compensation of a teach
er's service must be made somewhat com
ImensuIate with that offered in other fields
of labor, and with the dignity and the value
of his work.