Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-04-07
The Letter Box

rhelp of the nurse in getting the
youngster back to class when he
knows he is all right.
Sincerely,
Harold H. Mitchell, MD.
Administrator of School
Health in Montgomery
County, Maryland
ct h e following resolution,
passed on Mar. 81 by the Cal
thersburg PTA, was sent to the
Sentinel by Janice H. Green,
president of the group. We are
glad to publish it in our CORE.
spondence column-Editor.)
At the regular meeting of the
Gaithersburg Parent Teacher
Association on Mar. 21, 1855, the
following resolution was ap-
proved:
WHEREAS the recommends.
tons of the County PTA Coun-
ellis Committee on Indignation,
as amended and released by the
Councils Executive Committee,
urge the implementation of inte-
grafton at all levels of the school
system throughout Montgomery
County in September 1855 re-
CARELESS of whether the Board
of Education can adequately plan
to meet the practical problems
of Indignation by that time, and
WHEREAS the above-men-
toned recommendations do not
represent the views of the
majority of the parents and pat
ronS of the schools - both white
and Negro - in the areas where
these problems are most likely
to arise when Indignation is
undertaken, and
WHEREAS the Board of Edu-
cations Committee of 10 citizens
selected from many walks of
life and all parts of the county,
and from both races, after sew
eral months of study and con-
sideration, recommended a delay
ed plan of Indignation, and
WHEREAS t h MARYLAND
State Board of Education has al
ready informed the local boards
that the implementation .of any
plan of Indignation prior to final
instructions by the Supreme
Court would be premature, and
WHEREAS t h e Montgomery
County Board of Education has
already indicated its intention of
awaiting further action by
higher authority before nipple
menting any plan of indignation,
while at the same time proceed
ing with studies and plans for
the solution of the numerous
foreseeable problems accompany
ing indignation,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Gathers
burg PTA rejects the last four
OF the recommendations proposed
by the County PTA Councils In
tegration Committee, and here
with calls upon the council or
its executive committee to with
draw these recommendations
to take no further action in their
support; and to dissolve the
Councils Indignation Committee
with a suitable expression of
thanks for its work; and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the Gaithersburg PTA rec
ommends to the County PTA
Council that in lieu of the first
of the aforementioned recon-
mendationS, it request the Board
of Education to furnish the citi-
zenS of this county with copies
of its plans and policies with re-
spect to Indignation as soon as
feasible after they are developed,
and that interested parties in the
county be invited to submit
specific suggestions for possible
Improvement, and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED,
that copy of this resolution be
forwarded to the president, each
vice president and the secretary
of the County PTA Council, to
the president of the Montgomery
County Board of Education, to
every local PTA in the upper
portion of the county, to the va
rious county newspapers, and to
any other group or person as
may be directed by the president
of this PTA.
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