Author: W. K. Tate

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781330736951

Excerpt from A Statement of the Rural School Problem in South Carolina, Vol. 2 To the State Board of Education. Gentlemen: As State Supervisor of Elementary Rural Schools, I have regarded myself as a special officer of the Department of Education to whom has been assigned special duties. The six months during which I have held this office have not been employed in the collection of statistics, nor in the tabulation of results. Complete statistical information concerning the status of the schools with which my work is connected will form a part of the report of the State Superintendent of Education. As a field of special effort, the rural schools of South Carolina is a virgin one. Naturally the work of the first six months has been directed largely to renewing a first-hand acquaintance with rural school conditions. I began my work after the close of the schools in June and have had only two months in which to observe actual school operations. Part of the summer was spent in visiting the summer schools for teachers held in various counties of the State, in holding conferences with the County Superintendents, and in special visits to communities which were endeavoring to effect consolidation of schools, to vote special taxes, or to further some other progressive educational movement. Since the rural schools opened about October 15th, I have spent most of the time in the field studying conditions in typical counties of the State. It has been my custom to meet the County Superintendent of Education and spend four days with him, visiting his schools, seeing the work of the teachers, talking with the patrons and trustees, addressing meetings of the school community, and, with the County Superintendent, forming plans for the improvement of conditions. The week has usually closed with a meeting of the school trustees at the county seat, in which we have discussed school improvement in all its phases. County Trustees Associations have been formed at these meetings in order to bring about a greater unity of effort on the part of the men to whom the rural districts must look for local leadership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.