Desegregation in the Seguin Independent School District as apparently no nearer this week following another discussion on the matter by the school board at it s monthly meeting, Monday night, April 23.
    Appointment of Mrs. A. J. Saegert to fill out the one year unexpired school board term of Elmo Baese, resigned, was made.  Mrs. Saegert ran third in the election earlier this month in which Mrs. Roland Blumberg and Robert C. Dyess were elected to serve two year terms.
    Baese resigned, giving as a reason that he would no longer be able to attend board meetings because of new employment hours.
    A. J. Briesemeister, Seguin school superintendent, gave a report at the Monday night meeting on a survey he has made of five schools which have implemented desegregation.  The five are Austin, New Braunfels, San Antonio, Floresville and San Marcos.
    Only one, San Marcos, has experienced difficulty over desegregation, according to Briesemeister.
    Remedial Classes
    "At San Marcos they have been confronted with a scholastic problem," said the local superintendent.  He reported that about 90 percent of the colored students who entered white  schools in San Marcos last  September have shown below normal achievement.
     Remedial classes in mathematics and English have been set up at San MArcos in an effort to rectify the situation, Briesemeister stated.
    At the other four schools no difficulty has been experienced and none is foreseen at this time, the Seguin board was informed by its Superintendent.
    Kerrville Situation
    "Its something we are going to have to do one of these days.  We don't want to get into a situation like they had at Kerrville," the school official stated.  
    In Kerrville a resolution on desegregation was passed, rescinded; then passed again and rescinded a second time, he reported.
    The Seguin  school board appointed itself as a committee to study the desegregation matter last fall.  The study is continuing following Monday night's discussions.
    Also at the Monday night school board meeting school property valuations were upped between $55,000 and $60,000 to allow for increases on insurance coverage.  The increased cost, according to the superintendent, will run about $350 on premiums over a three year period.
The Seguin Gazette, April 26, 1956