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REORGANIZATION OF | ! SCHOOL SYSTEM COMPLETE PLAN OUTLINED BY FACULTY OF STATE UNIVERSITY Among the suggestions included in the proposed reorganization pian 01 the State school system are adequate salaries for teachers, a new system of assessment and apportionment of taxes, a revision of the law creating the State board of education, amendment of the compulsory attendance i law and free tuition to all citizens of j the State atending tax supported schools. The list of suggestions follows in full: 1. The prime educational need of the State is a staple and competent * profession of teaching, which can be made possible only by the provision of adequate salaries. 2. There should be made this year, a survey of the educational system of; the State, including all institutions! and agencies under the control of the j State and such private institutions as do not object to such inclusions. 3. A constitutional convention should { be called to construct a new system ( fbr the assessment and apportionment of taxes. % 4. The ^tale board of education should consist of the Governor, as chairman ex-officio, one representative elected by the president of the State institutions of higher learning, ? Disease-Free I m We Sell Disease-free * Guaranteed pure | Nancy Hall. Grown | perts. Best references I fv. 10,000 up $2.50 per I Order now - CAROLINA SE * I > I mmmH9m wm UNDER! AP Undertakers' Supplii Coffins an With or Without . I On furnish and deliver ?nyv 1 ranze from 84.to $350. | Prompt service rendered I done on short notice. Tele I FLOWERS F 1 I represent two floral house; ( and funeral designs on short i IMetalk Caskets. Copi P. S. CO b i * our sole claim to yol | based on Better values, i you can get elsewhere i! " all of our experience I devoted to making our h, * valuable'to you. a | IT IS WELL WORTH YOl'I ? HARDWARE NEEDS TO US. M * I ^HARDW I llflHnMMHHnDnHBMnVYKTVTKft one by the council of the State Teachers' Associ&tion. one by the Association of County Superintendents and fpur elected by the General Assembly from the State at large. The representative members should be elected annually. The term of office of the members elected by the General Assembly should be "four years,' the initial terms being so arranged that one vacancy shall occur ?>:ir-Vi vpar 5. The State Superintendent of Education should be elected by the State board of education as its executive officer and secretary. Professional qualifications for the office should be defined. A competent administrative and supervisory staff should be elected by the State board on the nomination of the State Superintendent. 6. _ A State board of examiners should be appointed by the State board of education for the examination and certification of teachers. This board should develop later into a State board of standardization, which, like the New York board of regents, will standardize not only the teachers, but also the results of their work. 7. The county board of education should be elected by the qualified voters. The initial terms of office should be so arranged that not more than two vacancies shall occur annually in any one year. * 8. The county superintendent of education should be a professional exr pert sought out and selected by the county board of education to act as its executive officer. There should be . totato Plants! Plants Only. strains, Porto Rico, and inspected by exfurnished. We Satisthousand?Les? $3.00. 1 ED & PLANT CO. | Florence, S. C. Faking" ID es of All Kinds, d Caskets Hearse Service. vhere in the county. Prices day or night. Embalming 'phone numbers 91 and 17. URNISKED. s and can furnish cut flowers notice. [2-7-6m ier and Metal Vaults. URTNEY. i:: JR PATRONAGE MUST BE BETTER SERVICE, THAN * HARDWARE LINES. fc , ALL OF OUR EFFORT, IS g \RDWARE SERVICE MORE =3 r. ' WHILE TO BRING YOUR a i I a competent supervisory staff selected by the board of education on the nomination of the superintendent. 9. The district boards of trustees should consist of not more than three members elected by the qualified \ voters. The initial terms of office should be so arranged that not more i than one vacancy shall occur normally in any one year. 10. The compulsory attendance law 1 should be so amended that the term of compulsory attendance in any dis- j trict should coincide with the regular j school term in that district. i The State should make special pro-1 II -L.MJ ...U? U.. ; vision lor mose cnuurcn wnu, uy noson of physical or mental deficiency are exempted from the operation of the compulsory law. 11. The present plan for the examination and certification of teachers should be revised in order to provide for uniform standards, classification, and specific academic and professional qualifications. We submit the following propositions as a basis for revision: A. There should -be differentiation certificates. 1. General elementary school certificates entitling the holder to teach the regular academic (fundamental) subjects in all grades below the high school. 2. Secondary school certificates. (a) General high school certificates, without which no one shall be permitted to teach in a high school. (b) A certificate for each particular subject, without which no one may teach that subject in a high school. 3. Specialized certificates giving license to each the non-academic subjects, such as music, drawing manual training and vocational subjects. 2. Certificates should be issued by the State as a whole through a State board of examiners and fpr the whole State. They should be obtained in two ways: 1. By examination. The examination should be conducted by a central board. Besides the examination for the general certificates, elementary and secondary, there should be an examination in each specialized (non-academic) subject. 2. By diploma or credentials. A college degree should not entitle to a certificate to teach unless the work for which it was conferred included at least two years of the study of ed ucation. A diploma fulfilling this condition should confer the right to a general certificate, elementary or secondary. A certificate to teach a particular (secondary) or specialized (non-academic) subject should be based on a college degree only on condition that the applicant shall show such credit in that specific subject as shall have been determined by the board. C. There should be a minimum salary scale based on the grade of certificates and length of service. D. The new regulation should not interfere with any rights that already exist. 12. The State should be pension, insurance, or other approved method, make provision for the old age of its teachers. 13. The State should guarantee a session of four or five months to every child in the State, and a State levy should be imposed sufficient to do this. Each county in the State should have an additional levy sufficient to make it possible for each child in the State a session of six or seven months. The districts then should be permitted to levy a tax sufficient to provide a session of such length as the local people desire. 14. The consolidation of rural high schools should be encouraged. Fouryear courses of nine months each should represent the minimum high school preparation for business or for college. Where only a three-year, high school can be maintained its course of study should be so adjusted by the State or country authorities that a student may continue them in one of the four-year schools of his county. 15. A central advisory board should be instituted to consist of one or two representatives of each of the existing boards of trustees of the State institutions of higher education. The function of this board should be to | consider and advise upon all matters of common interest to the institutions and to correlate their work. 16. Free tuition should be offered by the State to all citizens in all of its tax supported schools?elementary, secondary and collegiate. 17. -Summer schools should be maintained at Clemson, Winthrop, the University, and the State College at Orangeburg, to afford teachers and others such educational opportunities as each of the colleges is peculiarly equipped to provide. 18. The State should establish a library commission whose function it should be to recommend and execute legislation tending to promote the establishment and use of public libraries throughout the State. 19. There should be a State and county organization under the direction of the State Department of Education, for the direction and supervision of medical inspection, physical \ training and the teaching of sanitation and hygiene. 20. We favor natioal aid to education provided that State control and independence of action be sufficiently safeguarded. 21. We urge a liberal support by the State of the agencies which it has established for the eradication of adult illiteracy. 22. The greatest weakness in the work of our schools at present is the lack of thoroughness in the fundamental studies, especially the reading and writing of the mother tongue. 23. It is the duty of the State to offer so far as possible to every child the opportunity of learning how to make a living. The welfare of society furthermore demands that our schools and colleges give thorough instructions in the culture studios and pure sciences. Look For .Hie Silver Lining [Florence Daily Times] The world's greatest need today is people who are able to see a silver lining. To see that though things may seem a little bit out of kelter at the moment, they are not nearly so bad as they seem, and as so many would have us believe. You are safe in putting down the man or woman who tells you the world is headed straight for the bottomless pit as having a personal interest in its arrival there. Whether they call you aside and whisper it in your ear or shriek it from the housetops, it isn't true. Men and women are needed who will believe the contrary; that America was never so prosperous as today; that the world only needs a little judicious helping to get it back on its feet again. It has had a lot of nonsense knocked out of it and it is not to be wondered at that it is still a bit dizzy. All that is needed is that we get down to business and clean up the mess. With statesmen, would-be statesmen and agitators, paid and unpaid, and labor leaders and drivers milling around and trying to grab off the biggest handful of advantages from the situation, a little confusion among the onlookers ought not to be taken too seriously. How are they to know that most of the tumult and shouting is by those who have axes to grind, and that if they were once suppressed and everybody would quiet down and quit talking and flinging their arms about for 10 days, the eleventh day would see this old world going on better than before with everybody exclaiming^'What a bully place to live in!" R7 1 "THE U ? | A NNOUNCING ^ J\STATION IN ? TRUCKS AN ? E SIVELY, BY EAEJ I s ' \YE ARE TEM | TREE TELEPHO] 1 STREET, WHERE 1 x ? MORE OOMMODIO 5 g LARGE BRICK GA $ (CONSTRUCTION F t ? READY FOR OCCT ? ? THE MEANTIME T ? ? YOUR FORD REQ ? K HAVE YOU CALL ( I D. 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