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LEGISLATION
In addition to the salary and retire-
ment bills under consideration of the
59th Legislature, teachers should be in-
terested in the bill for fair employment
practices in governmental agencies
sponsored by Senators Don Kennard
of Fort Worth and Franklin Spears of
San Antonio. If the State government
establishes nondiscrimination policy in
employment there is the expectation
that school boards will be influenced
to do likewise.
It is important that support be an-
nounced for the nondiscrimination in
State employment. This is a worthy
cause and deserves full support.
SCHOOL INTEGRATION
FIGURES UP
The number of Negro children at-
tending public schools with white
students in the 11 Southern states near-
ly doubled this year. A total of 63,-
881 Negro boys and girls are now in
integrated Southern classrooms, ac-
cording to the Southern Education Re-
porting Service. This is over 2 percent
of Negro Southern public school child-
ren. The number of Negro pupils in
classes with whites increased in every
one of the 11 states.
The Slow Learner
Your child may learn slowly, but
that doesn't necessarily mean he's slow
of mind. That may just be his style.
There are many approaches to the
learning process, says Rutgers Univer-
sity psychologist Frank Reissman. Slow-
ness is one of them. It can indicate
caution, a desire to be thorough, a
careful approach, or such a strong in-
terest that the student doesn't want to
rush through a problem.
Reissman says the slow student may
not be handicapped in the long run.
He may learn just as much as the fast
youngster, but over a longer period
of time.
Source: The Tortoise and the Hare, "The Shape
of Education for 1965," Vol. 6.
In 1942
The average length of term for
Negro schools in Texas was 160 days
as against 173 days for whites; the
average instructional cost per Negro
pupil was $23.00 as against $42.00 for
whites; the average investment in
school property per Negro pupil was
$75.00 as against $246.00 for whites;
the average salary for Negro teachers
was $760.00 as against $1,244.00 for
whites; and 1,800 or 28%, of the
Negro teachers in Texas received less
than $600.00 per year.
English Teachers
Meet in Denton
MARY E. GARNETT
Mrs. Mary E. Garnett, chairman
of the English Section of Hamilton
Park High School, Richardson, was
elected the State Chairman of the Eng-
lish Section of TSAT in Waco. She was
also elected in San Antonio to serve
on the constitution committee of the
TSTA to draw up the constitution for
the Texas Council for English
Teachers.
Plans are being made for the Third
Bi-Annual Conference which will con-
vene April 24, 1965, Denton, Texas.
The Year's Best Achievement
NEA membership on March 4 push-
ed us to another all-time high and
gave the widest margin of gain over
the comparable membership a year
earlier. The 931,955 total is more
than 28,000 ahead of last year's total.
If the present margin of 53,653 holds,
the net increase for 1965 will be the
highest since 1958.
George W. Carver School
Dallas
The present structure of the George
Washington Carver School opened in
September, 1954, at a cost of approx-
imately $1,200,000, including equip-
ment. Facilities provided are: thirty-
nine classrooms, a library, three art
rooms, three music rooms, one physical
education room, a gymnasium, an audi-
torium which seats four hundred twen-
ty persons and an audio-visual educa-
tion room which seats ninty persons.
The building is equipped to take care
of two thousand pupils. The first prin-
cipal of the new George Washington
Carver was H. I. Holland. There was
a staff of fifty-two teachers and one
thousand seven hundred eighty pupils.
The second year, E. C. Anderson
was appointed principal. Enrollment
climbed to approximately twenty-one
hundred pupils with an increase in the
professional staff. During the next few
years the enrollment remained near
twenty-one hundred, sometimes reach-
ing twenty-two hundred. This record
was broken in September, 1958 when
the seevnth and eighth grades were
transferred to the new Sequoyah Jun-
ior High School, which opened at that
time. The same year, Carver welcomed
its first Assistant Principal, S. L. Tray-
lor. The enrollment was not at the
1958 level very long, nineteen hun-
dred, it soon began to climb again,
reaching twenty-one hundred varying
at intervals to slightly above or below.
September, 1964 marks the begin-
ning of a new decade for George
Washington Carver and with this new
era Carver welcomes its fourth princi-
pal, Mr. Theodore R. Lee, Jr. Mrs.
George Bell Prestwood having been
principal of Carver before the occu-
pancy of the present structure. George
Washington Carver has now outgrown
its original plant and occupies nine
additional portable classrooms. The
professional staff has increased to six-
ty-two teachers, a speech therapist, a
reading specialist, a nurse, a building
secretary, clerk, lunchroom manager
and six assistants, a manager and five
assistant custodians and a maid. The
present enrollment is two thousand
ninty-six pupils.
1. Principal T. R. Lee and Mrs. J. T. Brashear,
consultant in primary education, confer with
cadet teachers: Patsy Ladd, Prairie View
A and M College, Norma Hayes, Bishop
College and Patsy Ross, Bishop College.
2. Fourth and fifth grades learn "modern
mathematics" the easy way. D. J. Williams,
instructor.
3. Music of the Americas for fourth, fifth and
sixth grades. M. E. Smith, teacher.
4. Fourth grades enjoy TV Spanish with the
teacher, D. B. Holmes.
5. Sixth graders learn the parts of a sentence
in a study of action posters.
6. George Washington Carver Staff.
7. Motivation for library study. Special project
for fourth graders by M. Kirven, teacher.
8. Art instruction for sixth grade pupils. M. E.
Davis, teacher.
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MARCH-APRIL, 1965
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McDaniel, Vernon. The Texas Standard, Volume [39], Number [2], March-April 1965, periodical, March 1965; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193825/m1/10/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Prairie View A&M University.