Milford chronicle., 1924-10-03
THE REASON WHY
TOWN SCHOOLS
ARE CROWDED
New School Buildings At Laurel,
Lewes, Now Forced To Use
Their Old Buildings.
MILFORD BADLY CROWDED
Must Build New High School Within
Two Years---MOre Education AT
No More Cost Per Child.

Inc following statement was made
by q man who knows the truth about
the public schools of Delaware anC
who is a convert to the facts anG
truths, which affect the whole school
and educational problem. He is a
resident Of Sussex county, but does
not care to have his name printed at
the present time; but has no obiec-
tiOn to the statement he wrote, be-
ing printed in the columns Of the
Chronicle. 1t was printed in a Phil
adelphia daily paper last week.
Study the question and think out
the problem so as to get it fixed in
your mind, for if all the people will
grasp the truth about education and
school buildings needed in Deia-
ware, they will benefit themselves as
well as their children and those who
come after them.
1t is not going to cost more money
for the rural children to get more
education, for with the system as
outlined by the writer of the follow
ing, it is certain that all children in
the rural districts, will receive more
education from the same money that
is being paid to support the public
schools at the present time pro rata |
for children attending.
Read the following and carefully !
fix the truth in your mind:
Five years ago it was almost i'm
possible to get 10 per cent of the |
citizens of most towns in lower Del
aware to build the new school houses
advised by the citizens service COM
mittee under the du Pont FOunda-
tion. Such schools would cost
around 100000, and it was honestly
claimed by most of the objectors that
The schools were too large and eX-
Densive for country districts or
owns of small size.
Two towns had nerve enough to
.ry it out, Lewes and Laurel. Today
he Laurel High School has out
grown its capacity. and already is
to use part of the old
school building to accommodate the
lumber who are attending high
chool. In Lewes a like condition
hreatens, and in such a short time
hese big schools are already show
ng signs of being too small.
1t is found that the cause of such
n increase in scholars has been be-
ause now the country boys and
iris want to come to town and go to
he high school, where in the past
ley stopped when they had gone v
trough the country school, Now the 5,
uses carry the country children in
} school and carry them home c
gain, the children find they want
lOre education, while the trustees Of p
le big schools find that their eX-
enses are being kept down by the II
rge amount of taxes from the cOun- o
v districts that are paid over to +.
lem for each scholar who comes in. S
In fact, Lewes and Laurel citizens
re delighted with their schools, and ", w
her town districts are wondering
by they, too, didn't see it. Concrete bi
,ads, a demand for better educa- ar
On among country children, free pc
lses to school have all brought wi
,out this condition, and although Of
me predict the downfall of the old
shioned "destrict skule" for the d
1re fashionable town high school, -
fore in the country schools, for the
lid must first pass his grades there
fore he can get into the town m,
lOOl Last month by vote of five th
one, citizens of Seaford decided ST
It they would bond for $4,000 for
new school building which, with for
appropriation given by the du w
Mt school auxiliary, will enable SUI
m to erect around an $15000G !
Ool building The site, which will Tu
tain fifteen acres, will also be pre-
en- by Mr.. du Pont. ion
is already demanding =
imilar edifice, and there is every DN
son to believe that a vote will be seiii III
en- there this winter on the pro- wit
:, while other towns are also Sen
noring for a chance to get mod oon
school buildings. +