The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 12, 1920, Image 16
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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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!"
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