The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-03-10
DILLON COUNTY SCHOOLS
DOING GOOD WORK.
School Inspector Visits Schools and
Makes Excellent Report.
State Dept. Education,

School Inspector Visits Schools and
Makes Excellent Report.
State Dept. Education,
Columbia, S. c.,
March l, 1921.
Hon. j. E. Swearingen,
Dear Sir:-I beg to submit below
report of visit to Dillon county made
during the week ended February 26,
1921:
On Tuesday, February %, in COM
pany with the County Superintendent
1 visited Mt. Calvary School. In this
school We found two teachers doing
good work in fairly good building
fairly well equipped.
On Wednesday, the %, we visited
Dcthan and Bingham, both two teach
et schools, and New Holly, a three
teacher school.
At Dothan and Bingham the work
was as good as could be expected in
two teacher schools; the teachers in
both schools, however, were handi-
capped through lack of another
teacher i'll each school, as there were
too many pupils in each school for
two teachers. At New Holly We found
three teachers doing good work, but
the principal was trying to teach in
very small, poorly equipped room
with very little blackboard. New Hol-
ly should add another room during
the summer to the present building,
as should also Dothan and Bingham.
On Thursday Hamer, Union and
kemper schools were visited. At Ham
er we found an excellent building,
well equipped, and four teachers. The
sanitary conditions around the build
ing, however, were found to be very
bad, and should be remedicd at
once. Union school, with three teach
ers. is doing excellent work The
primary teacher, however, has entire
ly too many pupils-about seventy.
Where one teacher has to try to teach
seventy small children, for whom so
much individual work has to be done,
teacher and pupils are bound to suf-
fer.
The Union community should by all
means try to remodel their school
building during the summer and have
four teachers next session. Kemper
school, with three teachers, is a good
building, well equipped. The princi-
pal has in his room an unusually
bright group of large boys and girls,
who can do good work if expected
and required to do it.
On Friday Fork and Floydale each
a four teacher school, were visited.
In each school, it might be better to
make redistribution of grades so
that each teacher might have about
the same number of pupils as any
ether teacher.
On Saturday the regular meeting
OF the Dillon county teachers was
held. This meeting was conducted on
the departmental plan and was most
instructive and helpful.
The country schools of Dillon coun-
ty are far ahead of those of any other
county thus visited. The splendid, well
equipped, moG2rn school houses, the
consolidated schools, many of them
having four teachers, and the high
standard of training and education
manifest in the teaching corps, show
that Dillon county has during the past
years had unusually good school Off
cials, who had a vision as TO the
needs of the country children, and
who were practical enough to realize,
In large measure, this vision. Every
country community should have a
school with no fewer than four teach
ers. The one, two and three teacher
schools. from their very limitations,
cannot educate the country children