The north Mississippi herald., 1922-09-15
BIG ENROLMENT
AT SCHOOL OPENING
Monday Morning 785 Pupils
Registered-Work Organ
lied and New Depar-
tures Inaugurated

The Public Schools opened the
la22-23 session last Monday at s 80
a. m. The attendance was large
and at the close of Thursday had
reached 785. The opening exercis-
es for the high school were begun
by scripture reading by Rev Wayne
Alliston, followed by prayer by Rev.
l.. P. Wasson. After which each
made strong stirring talAs to the
pupis and teachers. 165 pupils and
teachers. 165 pupils were enrolled
in the high school the first day, and
there are more pupils there now
than have been since the seventh
and eighth grades were seated in
the hall. The ninth grade is the
largest in the history of the school,
having S5 pupils. Miss Comics
hands ar full, but she says. the pupils
are working hard and doing fine.
The work is now well organized
and rowing along nicely. A stran-
ger would never guess that the
school had been opened only day
or two ago. The seventh and eighth
grades are organized on the Junior
High school plan, so that the teach
ers of these grades may specialize
in certain subjects and teach them.
instead of each teacher having a
grade and teaching all the subjects
Of that grade. Mss Lucille Brown
teaches all the arithmetic in the two
grades; Mrs. Tarver all the English
in the two grades, and the other sub
jects are divided in like manner
between them. The new teachers
in the school are getting nicely into
the work and winning the hearts of
the pupils. Both the new and the
old teachers are well placed and
have their work we'll in hand. Mrs.
Tarver put in request for lower
grade work and so has been given
the sixth grade. Miss Williamson
has been transferred from the Wa
ter Valley Primary School, North
Main street, to the fifth grade in the
Wagner street school. Miss Miriam
Jackson has the science classes in
the high school. Miss Ludis La
than the history and Mr.. G. D.
Hawkins the Latin The other
teachers hold the positions they had
last year and are as follows: Miss
Cornia Mayes, Hall; Miss Clyde
Adams, mathematics; Miss Minnie
Frederick English; Miss Ida B.
Nall, Commercial; Mrs. Willie R.
Hill, fourth; Miss Inder Davidson,
third; Miss Levy Biles, second; Mrs.
Marie Gooch, High First and Mrs.
c. P. Brown, Low First.
Miss Lula Erickson is principal of
the school on North Main street.
Her assistants are Miss Emma Ad-
dington, Mrs. e. S. Whitley and
Miss Vera Pearce. The children IN
this school are fortunate as the city
provides just as good teachers in one
school as the other, and in this
school the teachers have fewer pu-
pills than in the down town school.
The superintendent gave tests for
promotion to a few of the pupils
who had made exceptional high
grades last year. Those who stood
the tests were permitted to advance
two grades instead of one. Those
selected for this test were those
whose grades were mostly AS. For
instance, if a pupil was graded sixty
times during the year as shown on
the report card, he was expected to
have about forty-fve, as the rest BIS.
Most of the pupils selected for the
tests passed, but some failed. How
ever, all made splendid records as
to succeed meant each pupil would
have to make record that a pupil
one year in advance of him would
make. Had it been test to see
who would pass to the next higher
grade. all would have passed. The
whole school had been given read
ing test just before school closed in
May. The records of these reading
tests were kept and used as part
Of the test given these pupils. For
this reason some pupils who had
grades otherwise as good as some of
those selected, were not asked to
take these tests as their grades in