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1901.] Document No. 11. 9
tunate afflictions, should receive the first and most earn-est
solicitude of the friends of education. The Legisla-ture
many years ago established this, the first school in
North Carolina to impart an education free of charge
for tuition and maintenance. It is difficult to estimate
the benefits resulting from its establishment. To
attempt to describe the change which is wrought in the
children themselves, from the condition in which with
every avenue for success in life closed to them, deprived
of many of the pleasures of life and with the certainty
of being a burden upon relatives and friends so long as
they should live, to a condition of intelligent apprecia-tion
of and co-operation in the affairs of life, and in many
instances to a certainty of self-support and reliance,
would be out of place in a document of this character,
but would be gladly read and appreciated by every phil-anthropist
into whose hands such a description would
fall. It is believed that what the State saves in making
some of these unfortunates self-sustaining is a fair inter-est
on its investments in their behalf, though this
Board is far from being willing to throw aside all
other considerations and deal with these unfortunate
children from the stand-point of commercialism.
An examination of the preceding reports of this Insti-tution
discloses the fact that more than one-half of the
children of the State who should receive the benefits of
an education here are growing up in ignorance, a charge
upon their friends and the State, and with no hope of a
brighter future in this world. The report of the Prin-cipal
discloses in detail the facts that are anything but
a source of pride.
While the enrollment of the Institution, during the
past two years, has been larger than ever before by
forty-nine, the actual attendance on the last day of the
fiscal year was two hundred and sixty-six, or forty-five
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| Full Text | 1901.] Document No. 11. 9 tunate afflictions, should receive the first and most earn-est solicitude of the friends of education. The Legisla-ture many years ago established this, the first school in North Carolina to impart an education free of charge for tuition and maintenance. It is difficult to estimate the benefits resulting from its establishment. To attempt to describe the change which is wrought in the children themselves, from the condition in which with every avenue for success in life closed to them, deprived of many of the pleasures of life and with the certainty of being a burden upon relatives and friends so long as they should live, to a condition of intelligent apprecia-tion of and co-operation in the affairs of life, and in many instances to a certainty of self-support and reliance, would be out of place in a document of this character, but would be gladly read and appreciated by every phil-anthropist into whose hands such a description would fall. It is believed that what the State saves in making some of these unfortunates self-sustaining is a fair inter-est on its investments in their behalf, though this Board is far from being willing to throw aside all other considerations and deal with these unfortunate children from the stand-point of commercialism. An examination of the preceding reports of this Insti-tution discloses the fact that more than one-half of the children of the State who should receive the benefits of an education here are growing up in ignorance, a charge upon their friends and the State, and with no hope of a brighter future in this world. The report of the Prin-cipal discloses in detail the facts that are anything but a source of pride. While the enrollment of the Institution, during the past two years, has been larger than ever before by forty-nine, the actual attendance on the last day of the fiscal year was two hundred and sixty-six, or forty-five |
