French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-17
Supt. Bradshaw
Makes Ringing
School Message
PARENTS LAX IN SENDING
THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL.
With Enrolment of 595; Attendance is
Only 472; Strong Timely Appeal to
Those Responsible; Good Music and
Business Departments.

Business Departments.
The fall term has closed, Christmas
vacation has passed, and the work of
the city schools is progressing again
in the regular routine way.
From time to time during the fall
term statistical reports, honor rolls,
etc, appeared in the columns of the
local papers, giving more or less in
formation concerning the progress of
the schools and the work of the pu-
pills And it seems not at all out OF
place here and now to make a few
brief statements and to give a few
figures about the term as a whole.
The enrolment for the graded
school during this period totals 595,
and the daily attendance has been 472,
the attendance, of course, meaning
that there have been on an average
472 pupils present every school day
from the 4th Of September to the 21st
of December.
This average attendance may strike
one as being rather low when consid-
cred along with the enrolment, and
so it is low. Several things as usual
are responsible for this. There are
always some pupils enrolled in every
school at the beginning of the year
who, on account OF indifference, drop
out after only very few days. There
are others who drop out because they
have to. Some have been kept out on
account of measles, whoOping cough,
or some other contagious disease. All
these things bring down the average.
And it will be remembered, too, that
Io., 4.
during the month of Decembery and
thus far in January, for many of the
little fellows to go to school at all on
account of the weather. The upper
grades, however, have held up well.
But the great questions after all
are; ARE the parents of Henderson
vile doing their best. to keep their,
children IN school, and are tteschifz.
dren then making the best ofethe op-
pOrtunities that are before them"
Certainly We are up against it, in
many ways during these strenuous
times, but we should be absolutely
certain that indifference has 10 place
with us when it comes to the consid-
Grafton OF education, tor the present
demands OF our country call Ior an
educated citizenship, and Cue Iuture,
Wnen the world comes back 10 its own
aILer the great cOnnIct Lnat IS now
going on IS over, Will maize even
greater demands. And If the u0ys ana
girls OF today for any reason let the
opportunity slip, then they viii be
unprepared for the issues that may
confront them later, for as the adage
has it, we pass this way but once
ii tne census OF the city of Hender-
sOnVille IS correct, there are boys and
girls within the sound of the school
bell who should by, all means be in
school, but for some reasons are not
there. ThetOWn has a public school
which is supported by the towns
money, and every child within the city
limits ought to have his or her part
OF the training that the public schools
are supposed to give. There is no
reason why the schools here should
not be as good as any in the state of
North Carolina, and the only way to
make them such is for every citizen
Of the town to stand for the school
and for education, and then take ad-
vantage, for the children of the town,
OF every Opportunity that the schools
offer.
Below is a list of the pupils whose
names appear on the honor roll for
the fall term, that is, of those pupils
who have been on the honor roll every
month:
First Grade B-Jannette Crinkley,
Pauline Lewis, William Bangs, John
Williams
First Grade A-Maurice Bishop.
Second Grade B-Bertie Coley, Kath-
leen Brooks, Johnnie Stanley, Jane
Truck.
Second Grade A-John Brown, Byers
Johnson, Hampton Johnson, Steven
Stepp, Vera Orr.
Third Grade B-Murray Brooks, EN-
ma Lee Fitzpatrick.
Fourth Grade-Margaret Rozier.
Willie Case, Pauline Brown, Kay Orr
Feltz Collins.
Sixth Grade-Nellie Morris, Mildred
Calvert, Alliene Wilkins. Edwin Jor-
dan, Katherine Valentine
Eighth Grade-Ben Brown.
Tenth Grade-Mary Brown, Helen
Brooks, Annette Brooks. irene F.
Caldwell, AIleta Plank, Bertha Jami-
son. Eleanor Plank, Garland Sherman
Eleventh Grade-Mary Brooks. Al
line Durfee, Vada Orr, Sara Steed-
man.
A valuable asset, too, to the graf' ~
school which should he considered hE
the Young men and the. Young women
of Hendersonville is the commerce =
department This dnnartn'ant. ''r6e'
the efficient INSTRUCTION of Mr. Wilson
offers courses in shorthand. tvnevUrit'
ing, hookkeepipg. and nermansh'n
and we believe it IN he en''a1 N et4'
ciencv to the training usually given II
the business schools of North Carol