Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-08-08
Dr.. c. Taylor WhiFtier-
Plethora Of Knotty Problems
Awaits County School Head

schools. Where to find the money to stop this
practice will be Of the first specific questions
posed by the superintendent staff
A good public relations job is part of the
answer to adequate supervision. When the people
realize that part-time clerk in a school releases
the principal from bookkeeping and allows her
more time to help the teachers in the classrooms,
then school budget requests will be granted in
full instead of the 127 out of 155 clerks requested
which this years budget allows.
OF primary Importance is a salary schedule
for both teachers and supervisors that will meet
the competition in the metropolitan area the state
and the country. Although comparative studies
are not yet available for the coming school year,
Montgomery has been far from the top in the race
in any of these three areas in the past.
DR.. Whittier has already indicated that high
salaries are not the only answer to good teacher
recruitment but that professional climate" plays
an important part.
Here we come around the circle again to ade-
quate space School construction money is not the
only factor to be considered in the race against
part.time schooling.
FUTURE SITE planning is of primary i'm
portance in a county where housing developments
mushroom overnight. start has been made in
the right direction but are still long way
from preventing situations like the Twinbrook
one.
TWinbrook Elementary is the largest elemen-
tary school in the county with 1000 children at
tending this factory" in Rockville No more adj
dtons are possible to the building which is burst
ing its seams; and double sessions are threaten.
ing the fall session.
Another site should have been purchased
when this school opened its doors to 200 children
in the fall of 1852. How many schools will face
the same problem in the next five years is a
question to haunt the new superintendent nights
ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS, Dr. Whittier
will have to solve in the name of the childrens
welfare. Of little interest to the children but of
primary Importance to many of their parents is
the three-year old struggle with Indignation.
In its third year. the county's desegregation
program has long way to go, OF the 3017 Negro
pupils enrolled in public schools, only 1853 are
expected to attend formerly all-white schools this
fall OF the lis Negro teachers, approximately 20
OF them will be teaching in integrated schools
So far no solution, acceptable or not has been
offered for the future use of upcounty elementary
Negro schools such as Long View and Rock Ter
race.
With the closing of Lincoln Junior Carver
will become the one Negro secondary school, AL.
though number of possibilities have been sug-
gested nothing has "jelled" on its future and no
time limit has been set for its as segregated
school,
Although from an educators viewpoint, nte-
grafton is of secondary Importance, Dr. Winters
handling of this situation will be more closely
watched than any other single issues and the
public interest will extend far beyond the county
AS If all these problems were not enough the
new superintendent, before he has learned to put
names to the many faces around him, will be
asked to help resolve: az after-school use of
buildings; CD where to expand the Junior Col
lege; (3) foreign languages in elementary schools;
and, (4) an administrative selection program be-
ginning with list of first vice principals; all
under consideration by the school board and wait
ing Dr. Whittiers last word.
NIrs. WaIesld's next column interpreting
Montgomery County's educational problems will
be on the subject of special educaton-Editor.)