Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-08-09
Assn of Teachers
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its enforcement, stating II there were
such laws and they were properly en-
forced that there would not be school
facilities to house Negro children IN
the South; lack of teachers competent
to encourage and inspire children OF
the importance of remaining In
school: and the ignorance and m
difference of parents of Negro chill
dren.
Miss Williams stated that i'm
provement in the situation is notlce
able as a result of the Rosenwalu
Fund, and the Jeanes-Slater tund'
and the General Education Board,
together with the increasing interest
of staate agents. 1t was predlccea
bv Miss Williams that the 1880 cen
sns will show a drop of per cent
in the above figure.
Concerning the health of Negro
children, it was stated by N. u
Newbold, director, Division OF Negro
Attendance. State Department OF
Public Instruction at Raleigh, n. C.,
in reading a National Education AS
ISOLATION committee report, that no
worthwhile health, aeducasion pro-
Gram could be found anywhere mong
colored public schools; that the
death rate among colored school chill
dren is more than six times as hlgh
as that among white children OF the
same age. -.
There is some improvement IN TINS
northumberland of Negro chill
dren are being treated in dental elm
les and for communicable diseases
An effort is being made by eomm.lt-
tee of the National Teachers Assocla-
tion TO secure Federal appropriations
with which to promote healtheduca-
ton among Negro children.
w. A. Robinson, reported on a
survey of seventy-seven of the lead
ING high schools in sixteen southern
states. The report showed that TOR
the most part, Negro high schools IN
these states are overcrowded; teach
ers overworked and under-pald; that
there is a lack of library, LABORATORY
and gymnasium facilities or a pro-
gram of physical education with a
lack of emphasis upon artlstlc anu
cultural studies and aesthetic envi-
ronment, such as music and oeautl-
fving of buildings and grounds; that
the ianitors force in most OF these
schools is too small to keep the build
ings clean. The order of the states
in which these conditions show 70
hest advantage were listed by Prot.
Robinson as follows: From the point
of view of the teachers salaries
Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Maryland
Arkansas, North Carolina, LoulSian-
ma, Georgia, Florida, South Carollna'
Mississippi, Alabama.
From the poin tof view OF hlgn
school libraries: Missouri, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Arkan-
sas. West Va, Virginia, Kentucky,
Alabama, Florida, South Carolina
Louisiana, Maryland, Georgia, Mis-
sississippi.
From the point of view of supply
ING industrial and vocational tram
ng-Missourf( Virginia, Arkansas
West Va, North Carolina, Alabama
Mississippi, South Carolina, IeXas'
Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, Lou
siana, Kentucky, Georgia.
On the matter of taking care Oh
the health of Negro high school SUI
showers, h
dents, considering gymnasiums show,
ers, physical training teachers ana
cafeterias, Missouri, West Va, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Texas and
no rating for the other ten.
On the matter of providing eultu-
raj experiences in high schools IN
Guiding music teachers, art teachers,
stage curtains, satisfactory Janlto-
rial service and improved grounds
Missouri, Tennessee, West Va, lex
as, North Carolina, Virginia, Ken
lucky, and no perceptable chlce
among the others"
G.. David Houston, principal OF the
WpK
Armstrong Technical High School OF
Washington, d. C. speaking on the
present status of trade and vocation
al education said, "The teaching oil
Greek and Latin in the United States
is confined to the colored schools OF
the Soush. While colored achildren
are trying to learn how Caesar built
bridges, white children are learning
to build bridges of their own, Oh
He urged the Importance of mod
ern equipment IN vocational scnools
to keep pace with the machinery OF
present day interests, and urged that
expert mechanics, able to corelate re
lated subjeca matter were more suit
able as teachers in vocational schools
than merely college graduate with
degrees with which to satisfy the
vanity of the school as an adorn-
ment on the pages of its calalog.
He urged that intelligent students be
directed to vocational courses, rather
than to make these cuorses for the
ACCIDENTALLY unfit.
Dean Dwight o. Holmes, of How
ard University, president of the AS
ISOLATION of Collegs of Negro Youth,
smoke of the achievement of that
association in perfecting an arrange
snent whereby the Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools of the
Southern States is to rate Negro col
leges of the South on the same scale
with which the white collegs are
rated, funds for this project being
provided by the General Education
Board.
Dean Holmes insisted, that while
this is an achievement of the asso-
citation, it means that colored clio
leges being rated by such standard
will have need to put forth every pos
sible effort to so improve their cours-
es of study, quality of instruction,
and physical equipment as to meet
the requirements of the Southern as