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SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT
SHOWS PROGRESS OF SCHOOLS
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The following annual report, cover- to give some attention to the health
|ng the work of,the county schools,
was madw‘ by filiss Kate V. Woffond,
county superintendent of education,
before the recent meeting of county
trustees held in Laurerft:
The annual report of the county
superintendent of education has been
completed and forwarded ,to the state
superintendent of education. Accord
ing to the report the educational af
fairs of the county have made steady
and satisfactory progress during the
session 1924-1925.
Consolidations
The system of Schools in Laurens
■county has been undergoing a com
plete reorganization during’the past
year. Districts are being enlarged
and smaller schools consolidated into
larger schools. When the county su
perintendent came into office there
were sixty-seven school districts,
twenty-two of which supported one-
teacher schools. Today there are
fifty -one districts and only nine one-
teacher schools. The latter will be
consolidated as rapidly as local con
ditions will permit. The following
schools were consolidated during 1924-
1925: Palmetto with Poplar Springs
high school; Pine Bluff, Longview,
Spring Grove with the Cross Hill high
school; Dials with the Gray Court-
Owings high school; Belfast with
Wadsworth and Eberneezer and Pat
ten with the Fountain Inn high school.
The following schools have cut their
grades to seven grades and are send
ing the high school children by dis
trict operated hisses to the nearest
high school: Prospect, Mt. Pleasant,
Mt. Gallagher, Mt. Olive, Longbranch.
Wadsworth, Goldville, Renno, Ora,.
Waterloo, Greenpond, Eden.
AH of the consolidations have been
furthered by the success of the few
busses which' were experimented with
tost year. Last year five school buss
es ran in Laurens county—for the
coming session twenty busses will
run, each carrying ' an average of
twenty-five children. , f
Study Centers
The study center for the teachers
*{ Laurens county was again held
with groat success during the ses
sion of 1924-1925. Four instructors
were secured, namely: Dr. R. N. Dan
iel of Furman University, Greenville
'South Carolina; Mr. J. Harvey With
erspoon, superintendentr-^Df Clinton
city schools, Clinton, S. C.; Miss
Loulie Lane Hudson and Miss Elea
nor Vaughan, of Winthrop College,
Rock Hill, S. C.
of the school children of the county.
To this end a dentist was secured and
assigned to Laurens county through
the«cooperation of the State Board of
Health. In order to successfully
launch the dental work a fund of a
thousand dollars was first secured
through the cooperation of the Rural
School Improvement associations of
the courtty, the Business and Profes
sional Women’s Club of Laurens,
Watts mill, Laurens mill, Lydia mill
and Clinton mill each gave one hun
dred dollars to the fund^ Dr. Horace
Carter, a well trained young dentist
took over the work and make a great
success of it. In this he had the
hearty cooperation of the local den
tists in the county.
A total *of two thousand examina
tions were made and fifteen hundred
operations were given. The dentist
carried his own equipment with him
and the work for the children was ac
tually done in the school house. In
addition to actual corrective work,
Dr. Carter also instructed the children
tricts in which they are located, the
superintendent recommends that a
committee be appointed from this
group to study the situation and that
this committee make recommendations
to the Laurens county delegation for
a remedy for the situation. Some
of our high schools, particularly those
in the country, must be helped at ohee
if they are to survive.
3. The superintendent; asks for the
rapid consolidation of alP depleted
schools where it is practicable and
possible. School busses and good
roads are making possible the ideal
rural schooL If we are to keep our
people in the country we must take
good schools for them.
4. The superintendent also recom»
mends that the Group Center be main
tained in the county as it has beeifNn
the past. The superintendent appre
ciates the fine coopefation of the trus
tees in dismissing their schools one
Friday of the year to provide for this
type .o^teacher training and asks the
aa^^^cooperation for the year 1925-
1926.
5. It is further recommended that
the trustees see that each school has
si^ hours actual work a day. The
county schools are ^ready handicap
ped because of too imny grades and
too few teachers. There is a further
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928
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I" i h \ C T “ f , the I t<K * h and gave tendency by . few teacher, and tnj,-
tooth brush drills. Last year every
child who was examined received a
tees to shorten the school day. This
, , , . , . . i , . should not be, the time in school for
tooth brush free of charge w.th in- the coantry chiM is short ^
structions how to use it. It is hoped 1
to carry this work on further this
year.
In addition to the dental clinic we
were fortunate to secure the services
of a registered school nurse through •
the cooperation of the South Carolina
Tuberculosis association.. The schook
nurse remained in the county four
6. The superintendent recommends
that the trustees make an effort to en
roll every white child in his district
in school. Enforce the compulsory at
tendance law and see that after the
child enrolls he stays in school. The
superintendent also recommends that
thisl^body go on record as favoring a
, , / new compulsory attendance law, ade-
months and examined hundreds of: . . .. . . *
quate in its requirements and carry
ing an appropriation sufficient to en
force it.
7. The county superintendent rec
ommends that -each board of trustees
study carefully the financial report of
his district, which will be handed to
children. In addition she gave health
talks and instructions to the children
or the proper physical care of then\-
selves.
Permanent Records
This year a permanent set of
records for every white child was i.. . . .
. „ , . V- , . him today, and on the basis of the
installed in the oftice of the county . . . . , .. . ... , ,
.... rr,, • , , ^acts contained therein and the sched-
supenntendent. Ths meets a long-1*\ • , j j -j
* i ule of teachers salaries already dead-.
felt need. N6 permanent records of, , ,
the work of the children with the ex- ed upon ’ mak * a bud?et for h,s sch ? 011
tne^worK oi tne cnimren, witn tne ex | di trict for 19 25-1926. The successful
ception of the high schools, has ever , ^ * v i
, .. ® * handling of the finances of a school
been kept in the county and misun- , ..
demanding have arisan a, 4 result. : d,st . rlc , t 18 a real re8 P on8 ‘ b ’ h ‘ y and thc
good trustee knows where the money
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derstanding
With the present system kept up-to- n „ ^ u * v •
„ j * * u i will come from before he signs the
date a permanent record of the class-... . • k . .....
room work of the child is kept from ; a * ain!,t hl8 dl8t . rlC t
the time he enters school until he
The Jeannes Teacher
This covers, in brief, the work that
I has been done in th\ county during
I the past year.
T , T * j The county superintendent wishes
Last year Laurens county made an ^ * •. *
. . • t . , , 1 to take this opportunity of expressing
experiment m Jeannes teacher work , . - Ii_ .»•
^ ., , , , i . ., her appreciation for the fine group
among the colored schools of the coun-: » • u .
. r • v* ii , . i | , of men in the county who are serving
ty. Janie Maxwell, a trained colored; v i * * m. l
/ , . ! . • .« , as school trustees. They have ever
, teacher, was selected for the place , . ... , , , . j u i * i
One hundred «nd thirty teacher, 0Ild has been ^ „ do „„ ,„SZ ^f n , fa,th / ul ' loya l and helpfu '-
enrolled for the Study Course,. Clas-1 ; K . e of work shf vi9ited | ast Tcar , Whatever of sueees, that may come to
ses were held every other week for p , e olorod school in thc count has . the county, m school administration
5 :x month,. An average of one htm-1 Bllia >tudy center for eilored
dred was niaintained for the six teachers, held training classes in cook-
fnonths periond. The classes were^ of jj.g, sewing and home nursing among
untold value to the teachers of the |. er own race a nd has ca,rricd out all
county and the Superintendent of
education wishes to take this oppor
tunity of thanking the trustees for
their cooperation in making this suc
cess possible. During the coming
school year another study center will
be maintained with one change in the
faculty. Mrs. Hetty S. Brown, an ex-
of the instructions of the county su
perintendent of educatiqn in regard to
negro schools and negro teachers. She
has collected and deposited with the
county treasurer over tvffo thousand
dollars, collected from the colored peo-
ple of the county for the support of
the colored schools. Since the colored
pert in Rural schools and author of people, as a whole, pay little taxes,
several text books will have charge of
the primary work.
Teachers’ Participation in Teachers’
Organizations
Laurens county was again a hun
dred per cent in paid-up membership
in the state and county teachers’ as
sociations. Only five other counties
in the state can report a similar
ncord. 97 per cent of the teachers
were also members of the National
Educational Association. No other
county in the state can report a like
record. Again the Superintendent
wishes to thank the trustees for their
stand on this matter. No such rec
ords could be possible without the
hearty support of the faithful trus
tees.
Because of the excellent record of
the money collected was put to the
ciedit of the district where the col
lections were made, and disbursed
through the regular channels of school
claims signed by the white trustees.
The appropriation for the support
of this work was cut off by the Lau
rens county delegation but because the
work is a success and the services of
a Jeannes teacher is needed the coun
ty superintendent was able to secure
all of the Jeannes teacher's salary
from sources other than the revenue
of the county. The services of the
Jeannes teacher is therefore retained
for another year.
Statiatical
. For the year 1924-1926 $304,128.69
were expended for all school purposed.
rfeci
feels, be in a large measure due to
the faith and the strong support of
the local trustees.
Yours faithfullv,
KATE V. WOFFORD.
Local Scouts Have
Interesting Meeting
$89,550.06 of this amount were reoiv-
Ummn, county in Tencher,’ AMOcm-l^ gUte 4j<L wera CTr ; 1U d
tion work the State Teachers’ Asso
ciation at its annual meeting in
March, in Columbia, elected your
County Superintendent its President.
This is the first time in the forty
years’ history of the Association that
the honor has ever come to a fwoman, j children of the / county
ajicMhe First time in the same period on jy gQ j
•1' time that the honor has ever come
to Laurens county.
High School Districts ‘ *
It has been the aim of the county
Board of Education to divide the
county into high school areas, avail
in the white schools 5,733 children and
4,893 colored children were enrolled
in the colored schools. 209 white
teachers were employed, all of whom
had first grade certificates except
two. The average attendance for the
was
: County Commencement Day
On April *24, 1925, rhe county
schools held their county commence
ment on the baseball grounds of Lau
rens. Forty-two schools took part and
presented a historical pageant which
able to ail the white children of Lau- attracted state-wide attention. All
rtns county. So far the plan has the parts were taken by school chil-
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been a success. The high schools es- dren, each school presenting a separ-
tablished are: Laurens, Clinton, Gray. ate part of the whole pagean-'.
Clinton Mill Troop No. 4, Musgrove
Council, held their regular meeting
last Monday evening, as usual, out
in the woods. As soon as the meet
ing was assembled the camp fire was
started, followed by regular busi
ness, amusements, etc. Mr. Thos. E.
Epting, scout executive, then gave an
interesting talk on Scouting., His
principal remarks wereron the coming
Jamboree and Efficiency Contest. The
Jamboree will be held at Newberry,
November 11. The Efficiency Con
test will end December 31. The above
troop unanimously assured Mr. Epting
that he would be compelled to deliver
both trophies to them. The entire
troop was glad to have the Scout Exe
cutive with us, and showed their ap
preciation by their work. The Scouts
present were: Carter, Byars, Jacks,
Parker, Malpass, Tramell, McClendon,
Whitlock, Bennett, Quinton, Abrams,
Oxley, Epting.
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Court - Owings, Lanford, ’ Poplar
Springs, Hickory Tavern, Mountville
and Cross Hill. These districts are
Much interest in local history was
taken by the county schools, some of
the schools preparing their own ho
used as a basis for much of the school torical material for the pageant. Next
administration in the county. V [ year a similar celebration will be nald,
Office and Field Work j in which 1 the county superintendent
Carefully kept records in the office; asks the continued cooperation of the
*f the county Superintendent show tiustees. v
that 5,110 pieces of mail were sent
from the office during the year. The
county Superintendent travelled ap-
"prcrximately 4,000 miles on school
Recommendations
1. The superintendent asks for the
further cooperation of the trustees in
furthering the work of the Study Cen
business. She made 212 school visits! ter v and Teachers’ association work.
•nd made 125 talks in the interest of
schools and education. She attended
•very meeting of the Laurens County
Teachers association;—the—aiftiiuU
meeting of the State Teachers’ asso
ciation in Columbia and_went as a
delegate from the State Teachers* - as
sociation to the National Educational
association which met in Indianapolis,
Indiana, June 24. 1925.
. Health Work
During the year 1924-1925 the
tyunty Board of Education decided
Often teachers would attend the Study
Center if the trustees would only
speak to them of the importance of it.
Many teachers have no way to reach
urens for the Study Center. The
trustees should see that the teachers
are provided with a way to make the
trip.
2. The 6-0-1 law has been of great
benefit to the schools of the county^
with the exception of the high schools.
Since the high schools serve the coun
ty and not alone the immediate dis-
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