A Study of the Mill Schools of North Carolina, Issue 178 |
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160 Local Tax AGE ENROLLED age-grade distribution Altamahaw-Ossipee arithmetic Carrboro children of mill city school Codification of 1923 committeemen comparison compulsory attendance law control of mill cotton mills course of study Cramerton degree of control DISTRIBUTED BY GRADES eleven eleven-grade systems eleven-year-old children eleven-year-old pupils Enrolled Enrolled ENROLLMENT BY AGE Gaston County Grade Grade Grade Greensboro Haw River included intelligence quotients Kannapolis living in mill median score mill children mill companies mill officials mill school districts mill villages mill workers NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TEST nine-grade systems norm North Carolina NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE number of children number of grades number of mills Number of Pupils PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN percentile ranking PUPILS TESTED quartile Ranlo reading material RURAL SCHOOLS schools of North SCHOOLS TESTED seven seventh seventh-grade pupils Standard Score Subsidy Mills TABLE Tax County teachers THORNDIKE-MCCALL READING SCALE Total type of school TYPES OF MILL VII VIII West Hickory WOODY-MCCALL MIXED FUNDAMENTALS
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Page 33 - Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII Grade VIII Grade IX Grade X Grade XI Grade XII 9.
Page 9 - Without a contract for a definite tenure, they live in houses owned by the mills. The butcher, grocer, merchant, physician, dentist, preacher, teacher and welfare worker must live in houses owned by the mill company. Leases for offices and stores are for no longer than one year. Often churches must be built on real estate owned by the company. Regulations as to what may be grown in the garden and as to how often the lawn must be trimmed are often in effect. There is no place for meetings to discuss...
Page 11 - In the type of schools over which mill owners have the least influence, every mill school has an eleven-grade system. In the type of school over which mill owners have the most influence, every school has a seven-grade system. This indicates the direction of control by mill owners over the policies of school systems.
Page 5 - Mill villages have been built for the workers brought into the mills. Schools of some sort had to be provided for the children of the mill villages. To induce capitalists to locate mills near cities, concessions, in the way of exemptions from local city and school taxes, were often granted. It was usually much cheaper for mills to provide inferior schools for the children of their workers rather than to pay school taxes. Because of conditions arising from the use of such methods, mill schools became...
Page 9 - There is no necessity for mill workers to think of problems of local government, as every public utility is controlled by the mills. In the typical mill community, all real estate is owned by the mill companies. It is impossible for mill workmen to buy homes.
Page 45 - ... extra year. Every school district should be required to provide adequate opportunity for at least eight years of school work. If it is not practical to do this within the school district, then the child should without cost to him for tuition or transportation be given this opportunity elsewhere.
Page 9 - In four instances the county pays rent to the mill owners for the use of the buildings and in at least five cases, the teachers are given their pay checks by mill officials just as in the case of the payment of other mill employees.
Page 9 - The control of mill schools is merely a part of the general program of control which mill owners have with respect to those who live in the village.
Page 45 - To check the tendency in mill schools of children withdrawing from school the day they become fourteen years of age, there should be an educational as well as an age requirement for the child employment similar to that which already exists in thirty other states.
Page 44 - ... school are not enrolled it is very probable that the attendance of those who are enrolled is unsatisfactory. The state should require by law a part-time attendance officer for every school system with an enrollment of 200 or more. One county welfare officer alone cannot do this work efficiently.