The Mena weekly star., 1922-02-09
ScHoOEsNoTEs
By w. II. MoRpEN.


 County Superintendent Schools.
 This has been designated Illiteracy Week by Governor McRae. The pur- pose is for US to enroll those people who are unable to read and write in private school. Twelve lessons have been prepared and are furnished from the county superintendent office free of charge The plan is to have three lessons a week for four weeks, each lesson lasting about one and a haif hours. This is work in which ev- cry citizen of the county should be in- terested in, and we offer the follow ing suggestions as to how anybody might help:
 1. If you know of a person who cannot read and write and believe you might interest that person in learning, speak to him or her about it. This is the most important mat ter of the whole campaign. Some of them might be hard to interest.
 2. Consult with others of the con- munity and get as many of the people to meet in one place for the school as you can. The school is the best place, but if it is too inconvenient to meet at the school meet anywhere you like.
 8. After getting a number to agree to try it get the best volunteer teacher you can find in the commun- ity. The public school teacher is usu- ally the logical one to do the teaching, but in many communities the teacher is gone at this time. In that case call on somebody else
 4. The teacher should send to the county superintendent for the num- Der of copies of the lessons desired, one for each pupil and one for the teacher.
 5. Have the lessons as often and as long and at the time of day most suitable. Night work may be more popular with around two hours for work.
 6. Blank reports will be sent every teacher to report the progress to the county superintendent.
 Remember this is all free, the ex- penses being paid by the Arkansas Educational Association. That is how the dollars that citizens paid in- to the association are being spent. It is planned to keep up the work until a very large number of these folks learn to read and write.
 To some of these folks it may be embarrassing. That should not be the case. It is no disgrace to be un- able to read and write, Let every cit izen give them encouragement.
 Send to the county superintendent for further information.
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 We are a little late reporting the results of the spelling tests this time. For information to the pub- lie we were furnished with list of words for every grade from the sec ond to the eighth, twenty words to each grade. Words were furnished from a standard test and came from the State Normal school at Conway. They said we should make an average If 669o III each grade. We gave the test to ten one-teacher schools. Mid way was first with an average grade of S4, Overturf second with an aver age of 82. Other grades were as follows: McCauley, 50; Opal and Mt. Clair, 57 each; Shady, 56; Concord, 53; Hickory Grove, 52, Shady Grove. Al, Old Dallas 30.
 This indicates that grades turnout the county are little weak in spell ing, and it is good for us to learn it, so we will know where to make our attack. We might try another sub- ject in this way and find that we are unusually strong. Then we might let up to some extent on that subject and give room for spelling.