Floride

réf. acs307 — Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs ca. 1919. Octavo paperbound 198 pp. Fair with lower cover loose and some wear along spine contents tight a few stray penciled check marks. Includes remarks and reports from each chapter located all over the state. On report for instance “The great need of a State-wide compulsory education law in Florida. In my questionnaire prepared for the Biennial last spring I had reluctantly to inform my National Chairman that of Florida’s fifty-four counties only twelve had any compulsory education laws and they are almost perfunctory. Four months of four five-school-day weeks or eighty days’ “schooling” in all for the children of this State! Is it any wonder that our reform schools are overcrowded Isn’t a compulsory-attendance law binding upon parents a crying need. Let each in her own district for a State compulsory-education law which will put the children in school and keep them there during the entire school year. It is often said that a nation’s most valuable asset is its children. They are also a liability. If they are held long enough in the earlier grades by the right sort of teachers -- those with a vision -- they will wish to go on even though their shortsighted parents may want to put them at wage earning. In this connection I recently asked our fine attendance officer for Dade County Mrs. Bain formerly Louisville’s Juvenile Court officer if the Colorado plan had ever been tried in Florida -- of holding parents primarily responsible for truant children. She replied that we have an adult-responsibiity act in Dade County and that in case of chronic truancy as most such cases are she was about to apply that remedy Legislative Committee please note. Florida shares with Georgia and Arkansas the doubtful distinction of being one of the three most illiterate States in the Union -- the third I believe. unknown books