Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-24
!. 1. Ready Headed Education Commission
Group Which Gave Attendance Finelinas

six Negro children fail to get
promoted.
Only one out of four white
children and one out of fourteen
Negro children who enter the
first grade graduate on time.
Although non-promotions in the
first grade have been cut in half
of seven white children and one
out of four Negro children re
peat the first grade.
Another evidence of poor pu-
pill progress is overageness', the
Commission said. ''In 1944-45,
one out of five white children
and two out of five Negro child
rem were at least two years over
age for their grades"
The Commission said that at
tendance should be enforces g,
first through an adequate census; !;
then through system of trans
fer notices for cildren who move
to other communities; strict en-
forcement Of child labor laws;
more attention to attendance on
the part of every teacher and
administrator; appointment f
trained personnel to give speci-
fic attention to special problems;
broadening of the curriculum;
and improved teaching.
The Commission also asked
that the financial foundation pro-
gram for the schools include pro-
vision for a competent attendanc
director or each school; quail
fled guidance counselors on the
basis of one full time counselor
for each FLYER hundred pupils;
and more qualified lunchroom
supervisors.
The state department should
also have staff specialists i n
these fields, it was Pounds.
The Commission found press
ing need for increased health
services to school children. In
high schools, health services are
almost on-existant except for
members of athletic teams, the
report said.
The program suggested would
include provision for each child
to have a thorough physical eX-
animation at least every other
year and have his physical de
fects followe6-up and corrected :;
/ for health rooms in each school :;
esta blshment of clinical psyche
logical services; better school
plant sanitation: better superVi-
sion of all safety provisions and
practices; :, extension of the school
lunch program; and more en-
phasis on the development OF
good citizens in the schools.
Greatest needs in the health
principals, follow-up to see that
defects are corrected: janitorial
services to keep buildings sanl-
tarv; construction or alteration
of buildings so that they can be
kept sanitary; and physical exa-
limitations for all children. ts
u Greatest need in the field o:
guidance is for counseling, the
the Commission said. Less than
40 per cent of the students are
being reached by counsellng ser
vices. In most schools in the
ate, the heavy teaching load
lalles it impossible for even one
2acher to be freed from teach
1g duties for counseling or other
uidance activities.
The membership Of the COM
nittee appointed by the. Com
mission to make this part of the
study included I. f. Ready ,
| (Chairman) Roanoke Rapids ;
Mrs. Dewey Willis, (Vice Chair
man) Fayetteville; Ella Stephens
Barrett. (SecretarD Raleigh;
Mrs. Walter B. Cole, Carthage /;
Mrs. j. H. Goldstein, Charlotte; !;
Mrs. Thelma Hawkins Harrill ,
Cullowhee; Mrs. Anne Maley ,
Raleigh; Blaine Madison, Raj
eigh; Mrs. ]. w. McGuinn, High
Point; Holland M'Swain, Yancey-
vile; R, F. Moseley, Greens =
boro; E. A. Resch, Siler City ;
DR.. w. p Richardson, Raleigh;
Richard Shaw, Marion, jamie H,
Simmerman, Fayetteville; Mrs,
R. w. Switzerland, Rocky Mount
Nancy Usrey, Chadbourn; Helen
D. Wilkil, Oxford; c. E. Yoke
| ley; High Point.