Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-02
RURAL SUPERVISORS
TELL STATE BOARD
OF SCHOOL WORK
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to install some system In the schools.
She is training the teachers TO train
the children how to think for them
selves 10 ask questions. to know and
understand thrift and TO care for their
books and school property in general.
She said she did not allow first grade
children to take their books home be-
cause it did them no good to do so.
They never lock the school house
doors in Sussex county she said and
what is state property is everybody's
property. Some OF the members
thought the school houses should be
locked for the better protection of the
property of the board. Miss People
said they needed a stenographer and
a man TO do the work formerly done
by the county superintendent.
Miss Edith Barger. supervisor for
the north eastern section Of Sussex
county, has 60 schools and S6 teachers
in her jurisdiction. She has made the
fundamentals of arithmetic one of her
big subjects. She has also started a
movement TO have the parents come
to the schools and listen to the chill
dren read and recite. She said many
parents had never heard of the idea
before, but since il has been put into
effect they enjoy it and take a greater
interest in the work of the children
and the boys and girls take a delight
in having the parents there to listen
to them. She has also introduced
athletic games for the amusement
and physical upbuildlng of the chill
dren and each school has earned or
is earning enough money to purchase
athletic materials for the district. She
has Al parent-teacher associations and
she declared il they can get the
parents to work for the success of the
school they can get almost anything
they want.
Miss Annie Snyder was unable to
attend the meeting, because of illness,
All of the supervisors expressed their
pleasure at being able to meet with
the board and to explain what they
are doing i'm their respective districts.
Meeting the Problems.
DIR. Holloway said the board had
come closer to the problems confront
ing them through the supervisors and
their reports than they have ever done
| before. He thanked the women on
behalf of the board for their very
interesting and instructive reports and
said they all hoped TO hear from them
very soon again. DIR. Brown said
they were very glad to know the
women personally and he felt sure
they could all work together with
greater efficiency now.
| w. +. Douglas OF Goldey College wa,
| invited by DIR. Brown to say somethinl
to the board and expressed his pleas
ure at being there. He had heard tn,
Supervisors reports and said ne knew
what they had TO contend with fol
twenty years ago he had been a schoo
teacher in Kent county. He though
they were doing wonderful work.
The budget for the AmericanizatioI
Schools amounting to $4,000 was ap
proved by the board.
The Industrial School for Colore,
Girls at Marshallton asked for
teacher and some school books Or
suggestion OF DR.. Holloway the re
quest was referred for investigation a
to what arrangements could be mad
to grant 1t.
The board was confronted by
rather peculiar situation when the
We're advised that the trustees of tn
Dagsboro district had all resigned
| Why they had taken this action wa
not explained. The members fel
there was something wrong there an
that there should be an investigation
in the district and il was decided {
have the supervisor investigate an