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mentary school is on hand. Some 'School Board members see a new elementary school as sure death to a future high school, which is needed worse than words can tell.
The school needs in the county seem to be like the colored preacher’s plea for his back salary: “There ain’t no use talking about what I needs; I needs ever’thing, from my hat down, and from my overcoat in.”
At any public discussion, many questions are apt to arise. No doubt someone will state that a building is no good without a teacher, and the needs are for more good teachers and less talk about buildings. There are truths here, but the data will not be pertinent at the Tuesday meeting. The problem the Flint Hill parents face is: can we have adequate instruction for our children. Overheard in the County:
In discussing the local problem of improving schools, one citizen was heard to say: ’The compulsory education law is like the Volstead Act; a noble experiment, but a dismal failure.” Most of the discussion of schools falls into dissatisfaction with the curriculum. As one fellow said: “We are down-to-earth people, earning a living. We want our children taught to read, to write, and to do some ciphering. We expect the schools to give sound training in the fundamentals, with the thought that the children will have the tools with which to build an education later.”
Sympathy goes to the teachers. Said one man: “I don’t blame the
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