DARNESTOWN ACADEMY 



Colored Schools. The teachers in the colored schools have an average 

 of twenty recitations per day each, and the average length of the recita- 

 tion period is 18 minutes. Even less time is given in these schools 

 than in the white schools to the teaching of the special subjects mentioned 

 above. (Table No. 21, Appendix, page VI). 



The most interesting school in this connection is the Sharp Street 

 Industrial School near Sandy Spring. An industrial exhibit for all the 

 colored schools was held last spring, and the results showed that in the 

 schools where industrial training is undertaken at all, the work is of a 

 very high class all things considered, and suggested that here is a field 

 of education that has hardly been touched and which it would be well 

 worth while to develop. 



The School as a Social Center 



Forty-six white schools and 17 colored schools report a total of 176 

 public entertainments given by the schools during the last school year. 

 These were of various sorts: Lectures, debates, concerts, programs 

 of miscellaneous recitations, mock trials, etc. For the main part, 

 they were well attended. 



The School Budget 



The total cost of operating the schools for the year 1910/1911 was 

 $118,355.62. Of this amount, $99,771.59 was expended directly on the 

 white schools; $8,448.08 was expended directly on the colored schools; the 

 remainder, $10,185.95, went for supervision, office expenses, interest, 

 cancellation of indebtedness, etc. That is to say, of every dollar spent, 



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