Smyrna times., 1925-09-02
DELAWARE STATE SCHOOLS ARE
READY FOR PROFITABLE YEAR
LARGE ENROLMENT is ANTICI.
PATED IN ALL DISTRICTS
Schools Will Open Generally On Tues
day, Sept. S.-Dr. Holloway State
Commissioner Education Busy


With the prospect of a heavier en-
rOllment, better qualified teachers and
improved accommodations in many
ways, the public schools Of Delaware
will begin the fall session on Tuesday,
September s, under auspicious condi-
tiOns, it is anticipated than ever be-
fore. All the energies of the State
Department of Education are being
directed to making this a better year
than all prior ones, which is the laud-
able goal that DR.. Harry V. Holloway,
State Commissioner of Education, and
his corps of assistants always strive
to attain. Sometimes the goal is not
reached as closely as the educational
heads would have liked to, but it has
never been because they did not strive
hard to do so. How many will be en-
rolled this year cannot be determined
now, but from all indications the in
terest which Delaware has taken in
education the past few years seems
to presage no disappointment along
this line. With a big enrolment,
teachers who are qualified are neces-
sary and under the present system
and with the available finances it is
hoped that the number of provisional
instructors this year will be the low
est the state has ever experienced
Provisional instructors are those who
are given permission to teach, but who
have not qualified through being able
to pass standard tests. In the past
it has been impossible to obtain the
number of qualified instructors need
ed because the finances were never
sufficient to meet competition from
other states. But this year it is hop
ed that instead of 100 or Is provision
al teachers the number may be cut
down to a couple of score or even less.
More complete understanding about
education and a better community
spirit in each section towards educa-
ton is one of the things which will
be aimed at this year.
Better Understanding in All Sections
ats a hobby of mine," said Dr.
Thomas R. Brown, president of the
| State Board of Education, in speak
ing of the phase of education, "that
there should be better understand
ing of education in all sections. NJ
| school will ever become an influence
in any community unless the lOca
! board of trustees takes an interest il
it and unless the people in the com
munity are back of the trustees. 1t
this sort of cooperation that is abSO
lutely necessary to make any sectiOl
step forward in an educational wa,
and it is this kind of community pro
gressiveness that | hope to eventual
" see come about in Delaware. 9Th
trustees must take not only a cursor
interest in their school but the
should observe for themselves throug
! visits and otherwise seeking infOrms
. ton about the school and teacher an
the methods used, whether their chi
dren and their neighbOrs' children al
receiving the best education they ca
get for the money expended. Whe
= we get local Boards of Trustees visi
: ing schoOlhouses and learning at FIR
hand how things are going on and M
depending upon reports made to ther
then we shall take an immense ste
forward. "But the trustees cam,
succeed alone in this NATTER" said d
Brown. "They must have a commu'
ity spirit back of them, urging the
on to better things all the time.
let them know that their troubles
securing a better building or a mo
advanced teacher is appreciated by t
citizens as a whole and their worri
sympathzed with. When that tir
comes Delaware schools are going
assume the place the taxpayers of t
state are entitled to-" One of t
ways in which the work of the teaC
ers and principals and superintendent
will be helped this year is through t
institution of what amounts to a c.
rective system of physical educatit
To the heads of the school system
Delaware this does not mean traini
football and basketball teams a
baseball mines, entirely. That is
a small part of it. But to seeing Il
every child has the proper kind of
ercise and does it regularly.
> "There may be ten children in
- school who have stopped shoulder
said DR.. Brown. "These ten child
should have a corrective kind of
ercise that will straighten them
aid them. There may be six child
who cannot see the blackboard frol
very close approach and these she
receive the special attention their {
ditiOn demands.
ain other words" said DR.. Bro
at is not the thirty or forty studt
who play basketball or football,
the three or four hundred who att