Evening journal., 1922-05-12

The total cost of these schools
will be $4,000. II we can secure
sites for some of these schools we
may begin work Immediately"
DR.. Odell estimates that It costs
1915 per pupil to erect modern, fully
equipped brick schools to accommo-
date 500 or more pupils; s1s5 pei
pupil for brick schools OF four OF
five rooms; S127 per pupil for frame
schools OF two or three rooms. and
$162 per pupil for frame schools OF
one room. with indoor toilets.
Concerning the bureau of educa-
tion maintained by the Service Citi-
zens, DR.. Odell quoted from a
report by DR.. Richard Watson
Cooper. who Is in charge Of 1t. 1t
was shown that the enrolment in
Delaware schools is. for the ages of
seven to thirteen, larger than the
number OF children of these ages
given in the 1920 United States cen
sus; is larger for both colored chill
dren and for white; and that, how
ever erroneous the census may prove
to be, we are safe in assuming that
the enrolment in Delaware schools
is good and that our chief problem
is not enrolment OF pupils OF school
age in any school year, but the short
year for which many of them enroll
and the irregularity OF attendance"
It also was shown that in general.
school attendance is much better in
high schools than in graded schools,
in graded schools than in two and
and three-teacher schools, in two
and three-teacher schools than in /
single-teacher schools. in single /
teacher schools than in colored |
schools; and that between the at
tendance OF the single-teacher white |
schools and the colored schools,
here is a difference OF only IA days
n favor OF the white schools, and
hat the difference in attendance be-
ween the single-teacher white
Ichools and the fully graded white
chools is 30.7 days, in favor of the
,raded schools.
The fully graded schools OF Della
ware, enrolling about 5000 pupils,
re the standard schools OF the State
With an average per pupil attend
nee OF 1929 in elementary grades;
hat the high schools have the best
and the fewest absences
nd present no serious attendance
that single-teacher white
chools and colored schools. which
'nroll more than ten thousand pu- :
'ils Including all ages from six to !
eighteen and all grades from one TO
slght' have the poorest attendance
ana the largest number OF absences
ana present the most serious attend
ance problems that confront the ]
sonool authorities OF Delaware.
Deelsrlng that non-promotion 10 (
clearly related to poor attendance ,
Ut cooper states that the Ave cbio, (
causes Of absence, both as regarSs
the number OF children arfecteS anS
the number OF days OF absence 70
sulting, are: Illness" "agricul+,,r,,
work" other work" weather +"
parental indifference" in the order
given.
DR.. Odell reviewed the attendance
campaign showing that last year in
eight months, the Service Citizens
distributed S1,502 perfect attendance
cards and 5000 good attendance /
cards, which hakes an average for
the month OF S.99S perfect attend
ance cards and S,751 good attend /
ance cards. This year, during the first
five months, S7,515 perfect attend /
ance cards and 31,25O good attend !
ance cards, have been distributed. /
making an average for each month /
of 1858 perfect attendance cards
and $3.50 good attendance cards.
OF the Parent-Teacher movement
DR.. odell reported in part:
obviously, what has been needed
IN Delaware for some years. has
been an organization which would