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. iption Rates $2.00 Three Months...r $1.10 One Month.......Subscriptions Paid In AdvanceOne Year... Six MonthsManaging Editor City Editor.Traveling'AgentNotice to Agents and Correspondents.Correspondents are requested to write on.one side of the paper and sign all communications even if a ncm-tle-plume js used for publication. Unless these rules ate complied with communications w .11 receive no consideration. We also invite our readers to send or bring us any clipping or news which in their opinion will interest the public, subject however, to our opinion as to its value as news.'f Entered as' Second Class Matter..at I’ostoffice at Galveston, under the Act oi March 3, 1379. '' ' ” ' •veston Texas. Saturday, Nlt;jv. 20/ 1920Prof. W. A: James (white) principal of the Ball High, School of Galveston, reported in Thursday's Galveston! Morning News that all graduates of the Ball High School'who attend colleges and universities of other states make splendid records attaining an average of 5.44 for class workIndeed this is, a signal honor for Ball High School, the faculty and Galveston’s school system as • it concerns the White schools. But no such good news comes from' the Colored graduates who graduate from CentrafHigh school and enter colleges and universities of other states.- . V *We would that it w'as so, but las, it is not.. In order that the-blame for this unholy set back to the Colored graduates may be clear in tfre minds of those who read this; right here^we are going to tell it. when it comes to one hundred per cent efficient teachers. Central High,School has them, equal to any in Ball High School or any other0school | for that matter; but .the.two sided bumb, messy curriculum' as mapped out for the Colored schools of Galveston are to far below the standard of the.curriculum for the white schools that it makes it impossible for the Colored student to make a decent showing compared with other Colored High Schools of Texas. . . . ;m-, * In ‘the Ball High School the students have available every thing neccesary, well fitted jabatoriesand etc. scienceschool., All of these particular anq-.neccesary-studiesare not taught; it is optional with the Colored students which they will take.* sAnd lest you forg^f, the Colored teachers had nothing to do with making vfip the curriculum either, so they are not to blame. Aside from th * above hinderance mention there’s the miserable over crowded school rooms and the double session, all of which over taxes the teachers, shorten the period of study for the student, which hinders them from getting a thorough knowledge of the various subjects they are studying. What we have said here, is not a protest in behalf of the Colored people of Galveston, no noton yonr life,but we simply wanted the facts known; for any other Col-; £ored people but lhese'in Galveston, would take a deter-mined stand arid contend for these things that are rightfully theirs or they would at least do some howling to the schcfol board about the matter.iThere was a time when Central High School was f mo .is for the high rating of its graduates, because of its strong curriculum, when we were barefooted chasing rabbits thru the field s of Victoria, our dad heard of it and wanted to .sencl us here. Far and wide when the question Of’a good school arose, Central High School of Galveston was recomended.* * • kMaybe when the School Board slices off another piece of the curriculum, and because of crowded conditions, students will be forced to hold their class recitation under the school building, then Colored Galveston might wake up with a' gap._ • iI ^It is no longer a question of what the sqhool board will do for us, but what we will do for ourselves. *7 -a.If a Colored student is given only a half a day in school, and the white student is given a whole day; with the curriculum of the 'Colored sghool a messy feeble collection equal to a well graded county school, while that in the whi-e school (supposed to be t h t same system) is equal to a college curriculum, how in the name of Moses can the Colored student compete, the law of tl e ‘‘survival of the fittest” will decree that die Colored student must go down r in defeat!Before those of superior training. T
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Galveston Colored American
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Nov 20, 1920
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