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THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE
THE PRIZE ESSAY
THE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OP GREENSBORO.
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WARREN M CULLOCH
T has been said that "a good beginning makes a
bad ending." It seems that this can be applied
very readily to the educational conditions in
Greensboro. She was the first town in North
Carolina to vote a tax for the support of a free
public school. Following her example, the other
towns of the State established schools—and grew.
i In 1900 North Carolina contained no towns with
jp| <^| a population above 25,000." Greensboro had only
IIII 10,035 inhabitants. Today she has 43,000 including the suburbs.
For a time, Greensboro kept pace with her sister towns,
who tried to excell in educational conditions. But today
she has fallen so completely behind in her educational conditions that it makes the public-spirited citizens siek at heart
to think of it. She has 1992 children of school age not in
school. If she had better school facilities, many of them
would be in school instead of wasting away on the streets or
in the mills, their valuable years which ought to be spent in
training. Because of the insufficiency of our school facilities,
the Board of Education is compelled to discourage rather
than to encourage attendance upon the schools. Is not this
an unnatural state of affairs?
The seating capacity of our schools is far inadequate Lo
accommodate those who desire an education. The school
authorities are compelled to force the children to attend
school in packed rooms, to sit on the front seats or to scatter
along the aisles in uncomfortable chairs. There are four
High School classes which, because of their inability to be
placed in the High School building, are placed in the Grammar School building, to fill up vacant desks in the rooms of
some of the smaller classes. It will be easily seen how much
more advantageous it would be to place all these pupils in
14
THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE
THE PRIZE ESSAY
THE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OP GREENSBORO.
MM
1
II
I
mil
MM
WARREN M CULLOCH
T has been said that "a good beginning makes a
bad ending." It seems that this can be applied
very readily to the educational conditions in
Greensboro. She was the first town in North
Carolina to vote a tax for the support of a free
public school. Following her example, the other
towns of the State established schools—and grew.
i In 1900 North Carolina contained no towns with
jp| <^| a population above 25,000." Greensboro had only
IIII 10,035 inhabitants. Today she has 43,000 including the suburbs.
For a time, Greensboro kept pace with her sister towns,
who tried to excell in educational conditions. But today
she has fallen so completely behind in her educational conditions that it makes the public-spirited citizens siek at heart
to think of it. She has 1992 children of school age not in
school. If she had better school facilities, many of them
would be in school instead of wasting away on the streets or
in the mills, their valuable years which ought to be spent in
training. Because of the insufficiency of our school facilities,
the Board of Education is compelled to discourage rather
than to encourage attendance upon the schools. Is not this
an unnatural state of affairs?
The seating capacity of our schools is far inadequate Lo
accommodate those who desire an education. The school
authorities are compelled to force the children to attend
school in packed rooms, to sit on the front seats or to scatter
along the aisles in uncomfortable chairs. There are four
High School classes which, because of their inability to be
placed in the High School building, are placed in the Grammar School building, to fill up vacant desks in the rooms of
some of the smaller classes. It will be easily seen how much
more advantageous it would be to place all these pupils in
