Milford chronicle., 1922-01-13
ATTENDANCE DRIVE
INTERESTS PUPILS
School Children Aid Drive for
Better Attendance Now in
Progress.

Progress.
Interest is gaining among Della
ware children in the drive for bet
ter attendance being conducted by
the State Board of Education. Ser
les of award cards have been mailed
this week to all children who have
made perfect" or "good" attendance
records for the months of October and
November. The award cards were
distributed during the school year OF
192O-1921, with results which were
especially gratifying to the state
Board. The first two months this
year have shown even greater inter-
est on the part of the pupils. Ihere
is a noticeable shift from the "good
to the perfect column, the number
of good cards showing marked
decrease, and the perfect" a proper
tionate gain, which is indeed pleas
ing to educators throughout the
State.
The award cards this year present
in four colors, birds and flowers
which may be found in the Delaware
woods. The perfect" cards for Octo-
her and November are "the Junco or
Snow Bril-" and the "Bluebird." Tne
"good" cards. Laurel" and "Hepatl-
"a" for the two months, total OF
32O5O cards have been distributed dl-
vided as follows: Perfect, 18,25O, good
1890. ,,.
themselves is demonstrated by the fol-
lowing letter received at the ot1ce OF
the Service Citizens recently:
FELTON,, Delaware.
December Is, 1921.
Dear Mr.. Cooper
1 received the pamphlet "Better
Attendance in Delaware Schools.
Was glad to note the increase In
general, in the percentage OF at
tendance made i n Delaware
schools. The children and l are
very proud of the fact that our
record is second in Kent county,
being 1928 days, but we were very
much disappointed that when the
list of schools deserving honorable
mention was listed, our school was
not mentioned, but Piney Grove, |
Canterbury and Pratts Branch all
came in for honor, and did not have |
as high a score as we. know that |
this has been an oversight but the
children wanted me to Write you
and tell you that if you publish
list of the schools in the papers IN
order of percentage, that they hope
tn see Rices' where it belongs.
Hoping and. believing that the
good work in attendance may still
go on, am
Yours sincerely,
(S) Leora Kent,
FELTON,, Del.
DR.. Richard W. Cooper, Director OF
Education, has replied as follows:
December %, 1921.
MY Dear Miss Kent
Your letter of December 18th
reached my office in my absence
and 1 am Fastening to recognize :
the receipt of it the first morning
1 am at my Office. q
Will you please tell the children I
of Rices' School that regret more !,
than can tell the omission Of the r
name and record of Rices' School 7
from the list of the ten best at
tended single-teacher schools in 7
the state, as printed on Page IL Of v
the pamphlet, Better Attendance +
in Delaware Schools" Rices' 7
School should have been third in @
y that list with a record of 1928 +
days. The Only two schools that 1
led Rices'. in the entire state were G
Laws, in Kent county, with rec c
ord of III days, and School No. 49, t
Mt. Pleasant, in New Castle coun- k
ty. with a record of 1881 days.
I do not know how I can make fl
proper amends to the children OF e
Rices' School for having thus p
omitted the third best attendedN "
single-teacher school of the state VI
last year, the second best attended "
singie-teacher school in Kent D
county and what I am assured is n
one Of the best little schools in Il
this section of the United States. n
I feel very proud of the record h
made for there were twenty-five 7
children enrolled in the school t.
throughout the year and they main c.
tanned a first-class attendance rec t.
ord for the entire year. Let me es-
pecially congratulate the fifteen t.
BOYS and girls in that list who at h
tended school more than 1853 days
and thus made the record as good Ii
as it is.
Very truly yours, tt
Richard Watson Cooper, C
Director Bureau of Education +