Evening journal., 1920-02-21
CODE SUCCESS
UP TO TEACHERS
R. w. Cooper Finds Little
Opposition Now to New
School Law
VITAL PROBLEMS
BEFORE INSTITUTE

State Commissioner Of Education
! Arthur Il. Spaid Dr. Richard w Coop.
Z ~. OF the Service Citizens and County
superintendent W l.. Jump. addressed
! the local conference in No 4 school thl:
morning Miss Agnes Snyder Of New
! ark, demonstrated the project method
In lesson gwen by her 70 IS school
7 children from NeWurk before the con
ference as audience. The pupils d'd
eXcellcnt'y IN spite Of the presence OF
hundred strange adults at their les
son
Commissioner Spaid put in a plea for
less dependence upon books and more
practical work in teaching He in
sianced the fine study Of actual drain
age and Irritation conditions that can
be made In lower Delaware better than
studying 10 out Of book He also said
school instruction IN vocational sub
jects was criticized because Of de-
pendence upon text books.
Mr.. Spaid scored the Congressional
delay over tie peace treaty. while the
Turks We're allowed 10 continue Ar
men'an atrocities unmOlestcd He urged
The New Castle teachers 10 adopt a res
olution upon this matter. TO be for
warded to the Delaware Senator's and
Representative.
Or. Cooper told the teachers the real
value Of the new State s'hOol code to
education in the State depended more
upon The te9chers' co-operati0n than
upon any other sgcncy: that the teach
ers were up against the real diniru-
ties Of putting the code into practice
and making II popular
II have met with scarcely any op-
position to the code in my speeches
throughout the State. only in one or
two cases, said DR.. Cooper. Any oppo-
sition there was is dying rapidly a nat
ural death"
He asserted that in places in the
State where the schools were kept
fairly up to standards last year. where
The people were interested in the edu-
cation Of their children, they were pay
ing at that time, nearly as high as
called for in taxes under the new code.
Delaware has a burden that most
states ranking higher than Delaware in
education, are not called upon to carry"
sad DR.. Cooper In this state we have
the double burden Of two separate
school systems, white and colored. With
the single exception of Maryland, which
only ranks higher by one one per cent,
Delaware leads all the States in the
Union having this double system"
Both Or. Cooper and County Superln-
tendent Jump spoke Of some criticism
heard regarding the carrying out Of the
colored school building program before
the new white school program They
said that it would be impossible TO
finish the white schools as soon as the
colored schools, because the white
schools were consolidated buildings.
much larger In size. The cOlOred
schools viii not be consolidated, they
said, because the population is so seat
tered the cOlOred pupils would have
to be conveyed fifteen to twenty miles
TO reach. a consolidated school. Also, !
ihe Negro families would move to set
lie near the consolidated schools, and
his would unsettle the Industrial sup
ply situation.
opportunities by the col
Ored people was so great, that they
their children or miles TO
.he schools free Of charge 10 the
school authorities He said it was far
llfferent from the white families, who
would not undertake TBS expense
Mr.. Jump told OF Pierre 5. duPont's
INVESTIGATIONS that he might see for
nmself the conditions in the colored
schools. He found benches without
packs, no books, wretched buildings.
Superintendent Jump asked the teach
rs to prepare budget for their schools
lext year in time for him to turn in
he budget from the County Board Of
education to Levy Court.
He spoke Of the good. unselflsh work
yiven generously by this years county
,oard. and asked the teachers to use
heir influence in behalf Of their re
election next year. Mr. Jump declared !
ie was not talking politics since ii
vas nOn-partlsan. i