Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, The Need for School Construction
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THE NEED FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION*
A democracy cannot afford to play fast and loose with the
lives and hopes of its children. Yet that is what is happening
in this country today as millions of boys and girls attend school
in makeshift classrooms and overcrowded plants.
We must have more schools now. In an international emergency
expenditures for many things can legitimately be reduced or post-
poned, but education is not one of them for democracy's future
depends on it. When a child becomes six years old and finds no
school to go to, there is no way we can repair the damage three
or four years later. America's children cannot be put into
educational cold storage for the duration of the emergency and
then later moved into an academic hothouse for forced growth.
If we choose to ignore the crisis in our schools much longer
we shall be inviting tragedy. The facts are clear and on the
record; they spell out a critical national problem that calls for
immediate national action--action in terms of materials and money.
Although no national policy on school construction materials has
yet been announced, the Office of Education is confident that
authorities will make every effort to meet needs for materials to
build schools.
*By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington 25, D. C., to be released Wednesday,
March 28, 1951, at Mad River Township Schools, Harshman Road,
Dayton, Ohio.
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