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April, 1933
THE TEXAS STANDARD
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and 18 and induce them to enter school.
Facts stand for themselves.
7. The legislature will act on two very
vital questions that will concern each teach-
er : changing the age and revising the cer-
tificate law.
The admittance of the six year old child-
ren has meant much to the colored child-
ren. Try to keep the law. A new certifi-
cate law might mean a reduction of the
teaching force. At any rate, the teachers
should not be called upon to carry so much
of the school burden.
8. The crime wave, delinquency, business
failures, liquor violations, broken home life
and many other undesirable conditions in
our civilization are charged to the present-
day education. The schools do not accept
the responsibility for alleviating all the
ills of life, but they do cheerfully give
themselves whole-heartedly to the task of
honest service to the youth of the land.
To more scientifically perform this ser-
vice, the big program of the association this
year, will be the study of negro education
in every phase.
9. The schools are great character build-
ing stations. Next to the home, the teach-
ers have the privilege of shaping the
courses of the youth. The teachers are
wisely performing this service.
10. Health week comes in April this year.
Health is one of the seven cardinal prin-
ciples of education. Begin your program,
organize your school, and your community
into clubs, so that the children may clean
the homes and the school premises.
11. Establish the custom of beautifying
each home, regardless of its size and char-
acter. Plant flowers and shrubbery.
12. Dr. Carter G. Woodson has just
made a visit to Texas to aid our committee
to thoroughly begin the observance of the
study of Negro History. That his visit
may benefit Texas, why not gather facts of
the necessity for this knowledge for our
pupils. Go before the local school authori-
ties and request the right to place ma-
terial of Negro achievements in our
schools.
Our slogan: 4000 Teachers for 1933.
Time to enroll: March, April, May.
Which Communities will lead?
Rural teachers, City teachers, College
teachers—RUSH.
THE REVELATION OF A NEGRO
PUBLIC SCHOOL
For the last few decades, public school
education in America has come in for a
substantial portion of the consideration de-
voted to our general welfare; and this in-
terest has grown to the point that at the
present time appropriations for public
schools now represent one of our largest
expenditures. Texas, for example, might
be considered an interesting instant in
point. Fcr the past school year this state
alone spent, $60,000,000 for education, and
of that amount $45,000,000 went for public
school education.
But public schools for Negroes in this
section should particularly engage the at-
tention of the educationally minded, not
merely because of the handicaps encoun-
tered in the form of insufficient appropri-
ations and inadequate facilities, but more,
perhaps, because of the remarkably suc-
cessful manner in which these disadvan-
tages are being overcome, while the work of
the Negro public schools moves forward at
a merry pace. We are therefore concern-
ing ourselves with a series of presentations,
touching a few of the "high spots" of the
Negro public schools in the Southwest. We
have chosen for this month the work of the
Julia C. Frazier School of Dallas, Texas.
In 1928 the school board of Dallas de-
cided to give to the Negroes of Southeast
Dallas a primary school; and it was ac-
cordingly built and named in honor of Miss
J. C. Frazier, who had recently died, after
having given the greater portion of her ac-
tive life to public schools of Dallas, and
who was regarded as one of our foremost
public school educators among our group
in Texas. The school was formally pre-
sented to the Negro citizenry by the presi-
dent of the school board in October, 1930.
It was opened under the principalship
of Prof. T. W. Pratt, himself a veteran
educator. He graduated at Fisk Univer-
sity in 1900, and went directly to the Ross
High School of Greenville, Texas, but later
accepted a position at Prairie View Col-
lege where he taught mathematics and so-
cial science. In fact, the department of
social science at Prairie View was organ-
ized under his direction. In 1920 he went
to the Booker T. Washington High School
of Dallas, where he taught for six years,
after which he was elected principal of
the Pacific Avenue School, which he served
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Tatum, R. T. The Texas Standard, Volume 7, Number 1, April 1933, periodical, April 1933; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193733/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Prairie View A&M University.