Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-05

mittee. She is at the eighth
grade level, now.
An enthusiastic person him
self, Mr.. Wenger praises the
fantastic enthusiasm" Of the
youngsters. For those who first
entered the summer program
this year, he says, this is the
first time anyone has really
cared about helping them"
Were building their self re-
spect," comments Grant Foster,
a Negro public school teacher
from Roslyn, Long Island. 1.-THE
hope, the encouragement and
the personal contact we give
them strengthens their feel
ing Of personal worth"
Mr.. Foster leads group games
at all seven class locations,
introducing the children to
team play and to the idea that
a good sport can lose without
becoming mad.
The summer teachers are not
being paid for the four hours
Of teaching they do from 9 am.
to / pm. each day. They spend
their own money for the food
they eat at the Negro homes
where they live.
Tutors Raised $500
The Queens students raised
$500 for expenses before they
left New York early in July.
They collected $4,000 textbooks
for the children to use now and
next winter, when they hope
many of the Negro parents will
carry on with at least reading
instruction.
The summer classes, and
more than 200 scholarships
provided by the American
Friends Service Committee and
the all-Negro Virginia Teach
ers' Association have made
possible at least some school,
ing for about Is per cent of
the county's Negro children.
Two-hundred sixty of the
LIPS Prince Edward Negroes
between 5 and % years old this
year have spent some time In
outside schools since 1859, ac-
cording to a Michigan State
University professor now study
ing the county.
DR.. Robert Lee Green, an
educational psychologist at the
East Lansing Campus, leads a
team that is testing the young
Sters to see what effect no ed
ucation has on the scores of
achievement and intelligence
tests they take. The United
States Office of Education is
financing the study with q $75,-
600 grant.
Taught TO Hold Pencils
Many Of the children lack
even the rawest formes of ac-
ademic experience" DR.. Green
says. I'VE even had to teach
youngsters that are six, seven,
and eight how to hold a pencil
before they could take the tests
we we're giving"
Some of the younger chill
dren who never attened the
public schools don't really know
what a school is. DR.. Green re-
ports.
They have only a vague idea
Of what 1t is like" he says.
They say it's q place where
people are. And when you ask
them what you do there they
answer people talk TO you"
The Negro children are not
the only ones deprived Of educa-
tons. The minority Of local
citizens who favor reopened
public schools tell Of at least
a dozen white children who
have been forced to drop out
Of the academy because their
parents could not pay as much
as the school officials thought
they could.
Robert T. Reid, administra-
tor Of the academy. says that
isn't true. According TO his fig
ures half Of the TOO families
sending children TO the school
receive some help from a $780,
900 scholarship fund donated
by segregationists all over the
country. Twenty-seven families
received full scholarships for
their children last year. he says.
Some Whites Can't Pay
Despite these scholarships.
court records show that at
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