Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-03
Roanoke Rapids High School
Retained on Accredited List

, lTlcIluS anu pdITUIlS VI IIle IIUd
: noke Rapids Junior Senior Hig
School will note that in the 1872
report of the Commission on A
credited Schools of the Associa
tion Of Colleges and Secondar,
Schools of Southern States thi
high school has been retained fo
another year Roanoke Rapids
was put on the list last year fol
the first time. Schools are put OF
this list for one year at a time
only. Since the conditions which
must be met by schools in order
to be placed on this list are il
Eliminating, we give them here:-
/. No school shall be accredit-
ed which does not require for
graduation the completion of a
four-year high school course OF
study embracing fifteen units as
defined by this Association. A
unit represents a years study in
any subject in a secondary school
constituting approximately a
quarter of a full years work.
More than twenty periods a week
should be discouraged.
2 The minimum scholastic at
tainment of three-fourths of all
secondary school teachers of
academic subjects in any accredit-
ed school on the Southern list
shall be equivalent to graduation
from a collegesbelonging to the
Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools of the South.
ern States, or a college approved
by the Commission. Teachers
should have had professional
training or one years experience,
3 The number of daily periods
per day; and the Commission will
scrutinize with extreme care any
school in which instructors teach
as many as six daily periods.
a The laboratory and library
facilities shall be adequate for
the needs of instruction in the
courses taught. The library should
have 500 volumes exclusive of
duplicates and government publi-,
cations.
5 The location and construc-
ton of the buildings, the light
ing, heating and ventilation of
the rooms, the nature of the
laboratories, corridors, water
supply, school furniture. appa-
ratus, and methods of cleaning
shall be such as to insure hygien-
ic conditions for both pupils and
teachers.
6 The efficiency of instruc-
ton, the acquired habits of
thought and speech, the general
intellectual and moral tone of the
school are paramount factors;
and, therefore, only schools
which rank well in these par
ticulars, as evidenced by rigid,
thoroughgoing, systematic in
spection, shall be considered
eligible for the list.
7. The Commission shall de-
cline to consider anyschool whose
teaching force consists of fewer
than four teachers giving their
full time to high school instruc-
ton. When local conditions
warrant the introduction of vo.
cational subjects, such as agri-
culture, manual training, house
hold arts, and commercial SUBJ
jects, the Commission will hold
that a sufficient number of
teachers must be employed
and proper equipment added to
provide adequately for such in
struction.
No schools shall be consider
led unless the regular annual
blank furnished for the purpose
shall have been filled out and
placed on file with the inspector.
In case of schools having twelve
or more teachers, a complete re.
port on teachers once in three
years will be sufficient, but full
data relative to changes must be
presented annually.
9 All schools whose record
show an excessive number of pu,
pills per teacher, as based on the
average number belonging, even
though they may technically
meet all other requirements, will
be rejected. The Association
racounizns thirty az q maxium