EWPPetitionDouglas1952001

Item

Title
EWPPetitionDouglas1952001
EWP Petition Douglas1952001
Tag
document, Loudoun County School Board, concerns, inadequate conditions, Douglass High School, Citizens Committee, County-Wide League, importance, resources, development, success, well-equipped, school plant, quality education, curriculum, teaching materials, teacher quality, urgent action, state accreditation, improvement, historical struggles, educational equality, access, African American students, segregated schools
Place
Virginia
Identifier
1014326
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Is Part Of
Petitions
Date Created
1/7/24
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Publisher
Digitized by Edwin Washington Project
Rights
Loudoun County Public Schools
Language
English
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Mr. Chairman, Superintendent Emerick, Members of the Loudoun
County School goard:

We the citizens committee, have been appointed by ‘the County-
Wide League to, again, bring to your attention some of the many
inconveniences now existing at the Douglass High School, and
which has existed for a number of years,

The aim of any school is to provide the opportunity for the
greatest possible development of the child as an individual and
as a member of socilety. Fundamentally, the educational program
results in improvement in opportunities, ideals, and general
conduct of the 1earner.and in their efforts to select and engage
in some useful occupation with sufficient success to insure security
and peace.

To accomplish these objectives, it is very essehtial that
the school plant be adequate. The school plant in a great
’heasure, determines the courses which are taught, the teaching
materials which are used, the quality of the teachers who are
employed, and the extent to which the general atmosphere of the
school is condusive to learning, |

We believe that you will agree with the above point of
view., However, in 1948, and again in 1950 we brought to your
attention many negative conditions which pfohibited Douglass
High School from satisfying this point of view. we have come
to the point now where something must be done in the very near
future, if this school is to retain its present rating of the

-State Board of Education.

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