The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
SCHOOL SYSTEM
 MEETSALLNEEDS
More Than 1000 Students With 26 Teachers In
 Talladega

The growth of Talladegas public school system in recent years has been phenomenal, and today it ranks in the forefront of southern cities of similar size.
 The elementary schools, embracing the first seven grades, have grown so rapidly as to necessitate the erection of a new building. There are considerably more than 1000 students, with 26 teachers.
 Total enrolment in all the schools of the city is almost l. 800. A graduate of the Talladega High school can, with out difficulty, enter any college in the country without entrance examination.
 Superintendent J. A. Baxley recent ly told of the educational progress of Talladega in an article written for a local newspaper. In part, he said:
 Each of our elementary schools has a well organized Parent Teacher asso- citation. These organizations have, all told, more than one hundred members and are rendering, a most helpful and cooperative service to the teachers in the many duties and responsibilities that naturally fall to them for consid- eration. The time has come when school systems such as our own cannot prop erly function without the aid of an an organization such as the Parent Teacher association. Many important questions mad problems arise, vital both to the home and the school, that may find a sympathetic and satisfactory solution by means of these organiza- tiOns. The same questions and prob lens do not and cannot be properly considered by the school board. We hope to see these associations grow in interest and general helpfulness until they include in their membership every mother who has a child in school.
 Milk Clinic
 "A milk clinic has recently been es- | tablished in the Northside school which is furnishing G pints of rich milk each 1 school day to as many children. These children were weighed some weeks ago and found to be considerably under weight. This we are told by the medical profession is frequently a handicap to progress in school and an open door to various kinds of disease. For this reason, and for the fact that these chil- dren may be brought up to normal by drinking one pint of sweet milk a day and thus have fair chance in life, this clinic was recommended and made pos soble by four of the leading clubs of our city. It is being tried out in the Northside school in first and second grades as an experiment. and if the re- suits in increased weight and general good health are what is expected, it is the purpose of its champions and all others interested to extend its benefits to all the schools in the system.
 Probably the best single day's work Talladega ever did for her public schools was when she voted a local three-min tax and thus increased the revenue for their maintenance by more than 50 per cent. The time had come when on ac- count of the rapid growth and increased cost of maintenance, the schools were unable to maintain the standard to which they had attained. As a resull the department of music and drawing was dropped from the course of study This we reinstated and with the in creased revenue to strengthen the veal places we brought the schools up to { high standard of efficiency.
 Meet All Requirements
 Our high school maintains a coursl of study that requires sixteen units foi graduation and since the standard en trance requirements to our colleges ii only fifteen units. it can be seen tha' we come well within. their limits. Vi meet all the requirements of the Stat Association of Colleges which mean that any of our graduates can enter an! college in the state without examina tion. provided that while in high schoo the applicant has taken electives tt correspond to \the individual require ments of the college which he wishes t enter.
 "The Talladega High school, in ad dition to meeting the requirements O the State Association of Colleges, als, meets the requirements of the A1l-sout6 II ern Association of Colleges, which i