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Griffin Daily News
Private Schools
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particular grade in this system,
an adjustment must be made. A
student not able to keep up with
his class may be dropped to a
lower grade.
PERFORMANCE
This is done under the
“scholarship performance”
provision. Faculty members
observe transfer students and
make reports on whether the
new student is able to keep up,
according to Asst. Supt. Tommy
Jones.
The system here, however,
hopes to refine its policy on
transfer students after the com
mittee completes its study and
makes a recommendation.
“We recognize we have a lot
of fine private schools. We are
willing to help anybody to have
better schools, regardless of
whether they are private or
public,” Mr. Christie said.
He is a member of the South
ern Association’s accrediting
committee from the Georgia
Sixth District.
Sacred Heart Elementary
School, established here in 1947,
long has been recognized by the
Griffin-Spalding School System
for its quality program.
TRANSFER
Supt. Christie said credits
transferred from that school to
the public school system here
are acceptable. There has never
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been any question about their
credits, he said.
Sister Mary Robert is prin
cipal of the school now. She re
ported an enrollment of 172
students in grades kindergarten
through sixth. Twenty-nine are
Negro students, Sister Robert
said.
“It is un-Christian to establish
private schools to avoid in
tegration,” Sister Robert de
clared. She said that she was
glad this matter was under at
tack and is being brought out in
the open.
80 CATHOLIC
There are 80 Catholic students
in the Griffin school and the rest
are of other faiths.
Four of the school’s faculty
members are fully certified by
Georgia and three have pro
visional certificates. There are
four part-time teachers.
The school moved to its pre
sent location on MacArthur
drive in 1961. There is a waiting
list in every grade.
AFFILIATED
Sacred Heart is affiliated with
the Southern Association and
expects to be fully accredited by
October of next year. The school
is fully accredited by the
Georgia Accrediting Associa
tion.
One child from a Catholic
family may attend the school
for sl4 per month and each
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additional child from the same
family is charged $5.
Non-Catholic students pay S2O
per month and $8 for each addi
tional child from the same
family.
Additional costs run about $25
for supplies and books for a
year. The school serves student
lunches for 30 cents a day.
FLINT RIVER
The Flint River Academy at
Woodbury is in its third year of
operation.
The principal is John Moore
who was in public education for
19 years before accepting the
leadership of the school.
Several Griffin families have
students in the school which of
fers private education be
ginning with the kindergarten
and running through high
school.
The Griffin students commute
on a Flint River Academy bus
daily. The trip takes about 35
minutes each way. Willie Kilgo,
retired Griffin policeman, is the
driver. He picks up students
here in the morning, takes them
to Woodbury, and returns them
home in the afternoons. Mr.
Kilgo stays in Woodbury during
the day. He keeps the bus in
Griffin over night.
COLLEGE PREP
Mr. Moore said the school of
fers a college preparatory
curriculum.
He said none of the graduates
from the young academy had
had any trouble having their
credits accepted by colleges
and universities.
Generally, Flint River Aca
demy graduates excell when
they reach college, Mr. Moore
said.
“Just ask any of the colleges
and universities about our
students. You’ll find they stack
up well.”
GRADUATE 20
The school expects to gra
duate 20 from the 12th grade
this year. Some already have
been accepted by a college or
university and most of the
others will be accepted, Mr.
Moore said.
They go to Georgia Tech,
Mercer, Auburn, University of
Georgia, Wesleyan, Valdosta
State and almost anywhere, he
said.
Their credits are accepted
without question, he said.
The Academy has applied for
accrediting by the Southern
Association and expects to be
accepted. Mr. Moore said the
school would meet all of the re
quirements, on the elementary
and high school levels. The ele
mentary section already is
affiliated with the Southern
Association.
SOUGHT
Mr. Moore said that ac
creditation also is being sought
with the Georgia Accrediting
Association as well as the Mid-
South Independent Association.
He expects the Academy to
meet or exceed all require
ments.
The school maintains a 1-17
teacher-pupil ratio for its 260
students. No class will have
more than 22 students, Mr.
Moore said. In an unusual cir
cumstance, it might be pushed
to 23 but no more, he said. He
said beyond that point, a wait
ing list is made and when the
total reaches 30, the students
are divided into classes of 15
and another teacher employed.
EXPECT 360
Mr. Moore expects to have 360
students next fall. He has 15
teachers on the faculty and will
add four or five.
The faculty’s average age is
33.
Mr. Moore said he had no
trouble hiring teachers. He
pointed out he could offer more
than $5,100 starting pay in
Georgia public schools.
The school is housed in a
quarter million dollar complex
of new buildings which includes
a new gym. The first basketball
game is to be played there this
week.
The campus has some 10
acres of land.
CHRISTIAN
Christian education is one of
the courses required each year
in the high school program.
These courses cover Old Testa
ment, New Testament, Chris
tian Ethics, and Philosophy of
Religion.
Besides stressing quality edu
cation, the school teaches
honesty, personal respon
sibility, a sense of values and
other such intangibles, Mr.
Moore said.
He said that Scripture is read,
prayers are prayed and the
pledge to the flag repeated daily
in every homeroom.
The initial registration fee is
$250 which a family pays one
time only, Mr. Moore said.
After that the cost for a high
school student runs $450 a year,
for an elementary student S4OO
per year, and for kindergarten
(full day) $350 and (half day)
$250.
OTHER COSTS
A catered lunch service is
offered with orders placed early
every day by each student.
About 80 percent of the students
use the catered lunch service.
The bus cost is $4 per week.
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About half of the students do not
have to ride a bus and are
brought to school, Mr. Moore
explained.
The school has a set curri
culum so every student will
know exactly what he will be re
quired to take. The only elec
tives offered are typing and
driver-training.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
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Griffin Christian School. It
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Assembly of God Church.
The Rev. Leslie Grounds, as
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the school. His wife is the teach
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Academy.
also has a kindergarten with 68
students.
Mr. Grounds said plans are to
add the second grade next fall
and the third the following and
so on. He had hoped to begin
with three grades this year but
this didn’t materialize.
GROWTH
The outlook for the school’s
growth is good, the minister
principal said.
He plans to get the school in
volved in a national accrediting
program but could not be speci
fic about which accrediting
authority the school would join.
“We expect our graduates to
be in the upper 10 percent of
their classes when they enter
other schools,” the Rev.
Grounds said.
He and his wife are graduates
of Southwestern Assemblies of
God College at Waxahachie,
Texas.
His wife taught school on the
elementary level in South
Dakota before coming to
Griffin.
ENROLL COST
Cost of enrolling in the Chris
tian school is S2O and there is a
S3OO annual cost per student. In
addition a student must pur
chase his own text books and
supplies. Lunches are served at
$1.75 per week.
Rev. Grounds said the school
would hold its pupil-teacher ra
tio to 15-1. He would prefer 14-1.
GORDON PROGRAM
Gordon Military College and
High School at Barnesville
plans to offer a new junior high
program this fall.
President Robert Rue said the
school would have certified
teachers, principals, and ade
quate library services. It will be
housed in a building adjacent to
the campus and will be non-
military.
The new program will be fully
accredited by the Southern
Association, President Rue
said, as soon as it is established
and proves it meets the stand
ards. He noted it takes at least
two years for a new program to
be accredited.
LIMIT
The program will take 25
ninth graders, 50 eighth graders
and 50 seventh graders on a first
come-first served basis.
Registration is $125 initially
plus SSOO to be paid in August.
Many Griffin families have
expressed an interest in the pro
gram.
President Rue said Gordon*
will not offer elementary edu
cation. The Junior Academy
will be for day students only
with each student being res
ponsible for his own trans
portation.