The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1919-09-26
NE SITUATION
.CONFRONTS THE
.M6NOR|ALA ASSN.
Committee Held Important Meet
nigE East Night Regarding
Present Conditions
FURTE her APPEAL FOR NEED
d. MEMORIAL BUII. DING
Techr cal High School Would
Inc hlde in it's Scope Room for
!4ieh School Grades in the Lit
era by Departments as Well az
Ma Al Iual Training Features.

Ma nl lual Training Features.
The 4 bst and survey committee of
the Glyhn County Memorial Associ-
alton held a lengthy and interesting
meeting last night at which quite a
number of facts regarding the CRYING
need OF the proposed building We're
brought out from reports Of members
Of TIE Board of Education who are
members of the committee.
1t was shown that at present from
the sixth grades up constitutina what
might be termed the Junior High
School there were 100 boys who were
anxious to avail themselves of the
proposed manual training or technical
features OF the educational addition
as contemplated. The further start
ling fact that shows the need of some
appeal to Brunswick's young men ana
boys was brought ont in the Ggures
that out of all the boys who enter thc
public schools throughout the coun.
ty fully. fifty per cent drop out of
school before reaching the high school
grades, and only about twenty per
cent who enter graduate.
AS a further appeal for the dir
need of the proposed memorial school
building the members CT the commit
tee found that the present high school
building is badly crowded even With
the high school lcasses while the ovel
flow from the grammar school is heinz
partly HOuoSu III II VI ucCt'tSlI1
The memorial school will include in
its contemplated scope room for hign
school grades in the literary depart
ments as well as carrying the manual
training feature and thus serve the
purpose of relieving the pressure all
the way through the schools and pro-
vide for the creation of Junior high
school participating in the valuable
features of vocational education along
with the higher grades,
AS Glynn county's school condi
tions now exist the Board of T,duca-
ton finds it practically impossible to
meet the requirements of the recent
lv enacted enforcement measure OF
COMPULSORY education by reason OF
fact that now with only voluntary
school attendance, the schools are
crowded. even after the boys leave
the schools for lack of interest in the
higher grades. and if the county IS
unable to meet the structures Of the
law, state funds are apt to be with
drawn from support of the schools.
This consideration alone serves to
spur work on the part of all concern
ed in increasing and broadening edu-
cational facilities.
Facin g vital problems affecting
Glynn county's future regarding the
education of its youth, together witbf
many features which required fnrthfr
consideration, such as site, complete
scope Of the project approximate cost,
etc, the committee was not ahie to
complete its work at last nighys meet
ing; but will confer with OTHER COM
mittees and the Board Of Education
before submitting to TIE executive
committee and the Memorial Associ-
alton their report.
Another meeting gof the committee
will be held within the next few days,
at which report from the Board of
Education has been requested bearing
directly on the needs to be handled.