Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-16
IMPROVEMENT IN
DELAWARE PUBLIC
SCHOOL SYSTEM
Reported at the Meeting OF the
School Auxiliary Associa-
ton Today.
REVIEW BY DR.. ]. n. 0OELl


Ths Delaware School Auxiliary AS
soclatlon met today In the Office OF
hrnry nuildins.
Tho association transacted routine
business and considered several re-
quests for new school buildings.
Dr. Joseph n. odcll. president of the
association, presented report OF ac-
uvities since the last meeting. being
fur sN months. a synopsis follows:
During November our efforts were
concentrated on program for better
attendance in the schools. \ drive for
more parent teacher associations was
made. aud we can now report 1866
new associations. Under the direction
of the state Board Of Education. at
Tendance IA the schools was emphasiz
81 ln "Schonl Attendance Week and
"Nislt the schools Week" for which
W. supplied $4,000 tags for school chill
aren whose parents or guardians had
visited tho schools during the week
designated. We are continuing the at
tendance award cards thia year. the
reiicr consisting of Delaware birds
snd flowers. For October we had tC
order gOo0 more perfect cards than
for the same month last year. Instead
~ state faEs. the school rooms will,
wurk for nature study pictures suit %
able for framing.
Tho work of statistical enrolment
In hclnE carried ON this year. Statis-
ties Cor the first year are now avail
nhe and are proving very valuyaole
IN studying causes ~ absence in the
different districts IN the state. Or.
Cooper has prepared pamphlet on
school attendance, based on n ss.rios,
~ articles pr, pared for the papers and
selected tables on attendance, which
IL heiur mailed 10 list OF 10000
throughout Delaware and the United
staton.
Tho work ~ the visiting teachers
has been carried on under the Inn
mediate supervision cf the State
Hoard of Eiucatinn Regular reports
nrc rendered mopthly to this office
on the work accomplished. During Mo-
Vcnlhcr the vieitlnr teachers and su-
rervisors gave their entire time "a
arsirting ln the work of orsanlzins
now parent-teacher associations.
The work ~ me dental unit is heins
carried on under the direction OF Or
William j. France, medical director
81 tho Child Welfare Commission. and
reports are sent In regularly TO this
of'cc.
School building Program.
alics 'or colo~cd schools have beer,
purchsssd st Newark and Dover. and
additional lari at Warwick (Noor~l
Options have been taken on cites for
eclored schools at Blocksom's. Ches-
wold nrawbriJxo. Greenwood. Ham
mondtown. Rccvos Crossing. Star Irf
and 81. Jones Neck.
IN Kent county one-room colorei
schools have been completed at Fork
hfAnch, John Wesley and Willow
Grove, Ia Sussex county four-roon
schools Tor colored children have beer
erected at Brldxeviue and Laurel. 4
s.n"ra- prosre~ report OF building,
now under construction is appended ts
this report
The schools erected TO date follow
N"w Castle county -Christiana
cclored. room: Claymont. colored.
rooms liockessln, colorcd. room
Nnrsaeilion. coiored. room: Mar
shhliton, white, l room: Matthew
Corner cclored, room; Middletown
white, 4 foom. Newark dormitories
white, e2 rooms: Newark kitchen
white, ! room. Newark opportunity
white l room; Odessa, colorod. room
Oak liill, white, room: Port Penn
colorcd, room; Richardson Park
white, rooms.
Kent county FELTON,, purcha .nd oil
academy; Fork Branch. colored.
room. John Wesley, colored, 1 room
Milford, white ! room: Milford. whit.
rooms. Milford. colored. B rooms
NmNrna, white, rooms; smyrna. col
ofcd rooms. Union. colore,l. 2 rooms
Willow Grove. colorcd. / room.
Sussex county Brldgevine. coloret
4 roumsi bridgcvillo, white. 2 rooms
narshoro, white. room: Frankfort
colorcd, rooms; Greenwood. whit,
! room, Laurel, colored. rooms
Millshofo. colorcd. 2 rooms: MiIlvillo
Ocean View. white. ~ rooms: Miltor
colorcd, 2 rooms; Newfoundland. whit,
room, Soaford Oollets). white.
rooms, Selhyvlle. colored. 2 rooms
Wnliamsviilo. colorcd. room.
summary 90 buildings erected I
date, 20 rooms; toilc; rooms; pun
'Nh"'N NtN ANAN'UAN AA EflNNH.
Following is the progress OF schoo
under erection
New castle county-Delawnre Cit
eolnrcd. 3 rooms. So; Newark, coloi
ed I rooms. SO.
Kent county-Iianco, colored,
nom. a0'5; Caesar Rodney. whit
rooms, 1850.
Colored College, coiored. addition
girls dormitory. 1909 sewer, 1909
viris dormitory. 1905; main buildin
pse additional water supply. 858
hcy, dormitory, Sos two room scho,
sof..
Lockwood, colorod. room, SOC
Nnymonds Neck, colored roor
pkft. snnflcld. colorcd. / room, 2OS
snsr.x--liackwater colored, roor
aos. Friendship. oolored. ROOF
oo's Hollyvil,o. colored ] room. 20e
laurel. white, ls rooms. 97se: Lews
eclorcd. rooms ssso: Lewes, whit
iS rooms. 100; Muddy Neck. colore
room. sb% Nassau. colored, room
t't, Rabbits Ferry, colored. rooi
ise,l scsford. colored. 4 rooms. 2s9
Niockle,, white. ? rooms. s09e; Wa
wick. No. /. colored, ! room. SOC
warwick. No. 2. white. rooms, 70'