Milford chronicle., 1922-01-20
IMPROVEMENT IN DEL
AWARE SCHOOL SYSTEM
Reported at the Meeting of the
School Auxiliary Association
Recently.

The Delaware School Auxiliary AS
sOciatiOn met in the office of the Ser
vice Citizens in the Public Library
Building, Wilmington, recently.
The association transacted routine
business and considered several re-
quests for new school buildings.
DR.. Joseph H. Odell, president of
The association, presented a report of
activities since the last meeting, be-
ing for six months. A synopsis fol-
Ows:
During November our efforts were
concentrated on a program for better
attendance in the schools. A drive for
more parent-teacher associations was
made and we can now report 156
new associations. Under the direction
of the State Board of Education, at
tendance in the schools was emphasiZ-
ed in School Attendance Week" and
"Visit the Schools Week" for which
we supplied $4,000 tags for school
children whose parents or guardians
had visited the schools during the
week designated. We are continuing
the attendance award cards this year,
the series consisting of Delaware
birds and flowers. For October we had
to order 1000 more perfect cards than
for the same month last year. Instead
of state flags, the school rooms will
work for nature study pictures suit
able for framing.
The work of statistical enrolment
is being carried on this year. Statis-
tics for the first year are now avail
able and are proving very valuable
in studying causes of absence in the
iifrerent districts in the state. DR.
Cooper has prepared a pamphlet on
school attendance, based on a series
of articles prepared for the papers
and selected tables on attendance.
which is being mailed to list of TO-
900 throughout Delaware and the
United States.
The work of the visiting teachers
has been carried on under the imme-
diate supervision of the State Board of
Education. Regular reports are rem
dered monthly to this Office on the
work accomplished. During November
the visiting teachers and supervisors
gave their entire time to assisting in
the work of organizing new parent
teacher associations.
The work of the dental unit is be-
ing carried on under the direction OF
Dr.. William J. France, medical direc-
tor of the Child Welfare Commission
and reports are sent in regularly to
this Office.
School Building Program
Sites for colored schools have been
purchased at Newark and Dover and
additional land at Warwick (MoOrs).
options have been taken on sites for
cOlored schools at BlOcksOn's, Ches-
void, Drawbridge, Greenwood, Ham
mondtown, Reeves Crossing, Star Hill
and St. Jones Neck.
In Kent county One-rOom colored
schools have been completed at Fork
Branch, John Wesley and Willow
Grove; in Sussex county four-room
schools for colOred children have been
erected at Bridgeville and Laurel. A
general progress report OF buildings
now under constructed is appended to
this report.
The schools erected to date follow:
New Castle county - Christiana,
colored. l room; Claymont, cOlOred, 2
rooms; Hockessin,- colored, 4 room;
Marshallton, cOlored, room; Mar
shallton, white, l room; Matthew's
Corner, colored, 1 room; MiddletoWn'
white, room; Newark dOrmitories,
white. % rooms; Newark kitchen,
white. l room; Newark opportunity,
white, 1 room; Odessa, colored,
room; Oak Hill, white, l room; Port
Penn, colored, 1 room; Richardson
Park, white, rooms.
Kent county-FeltOn, purchased OLD
academy; Fork Branch, colored,
room; John Wesley ,colored, 1 room;
Milford, white, room; Milford, white,
2 rooms; Milford, colored, 5 rooms;
Smyrna, white, 2 rooms; Smyrna, col
ored, 5 rooms; Union, colored,
rooms; Willow Grove, colored, l
room.
Sussex -Bridgeville, colored,
4 rooms; Bridgeville, white rooms;
Dagsboro, white l room; Frankford,
colored. 2 rooms; Greenwood, white,
1 room; Laurel, cOlOred, rooms;
Millsboro, colored, rooms; Millville-
Ocean View, white, IL rooms; Milton
colored. 2 rooms; Newfoundland,
white. / room; Seaford (toilets),
white, 2 rooms; Selbyville, colored, 2
rooms; Williamsville, colored, room.
Summary-S6 buildings erected to
date, 80 rooms; 2 toilet rooms; pur-
chased old academy at FELTON,.
Following is the progress OF
schools under erection:
New Castle county-Delaware City
colored, 2 rooms, so; Newark, color
ed, 4 rooms, go.
Kent county-Blanco, colored, l
room, 3O96; Caesar Rodney, white
rooms, 1870. -
Colored College, colored addition to
girlsl dormitory, 1OO9o sewer, 1000;
girls' dormitory, 1OO9o; main building
$780,: additional waiter supply, $3.50;
bows dormitory, 500; two room
school, SO9o. ooo
Lockwood, colored, 1 room, 300
Neck, colored, 1 room'
95Gs: Sanfeld, colored, 1 room, 2O90.
Sussex-Blackwater, colored, 1 room
6O%: Friendship, colored, 1 ROOM
3O95: Hollyville, colored, 1 ROOM
2O95: Laurel, white, 1S rooms, 979o;
I,ewes. colored, 8 rooms, 99%0; Lewes'
white. 1S rooms, 1870; Muddy Neck
colored, 1 room, $3.50; Nassau, color
ed. 2 rooms, $50; Rabbits Ferry, col