The Consolidation of Rural Schools with and Without Transportation

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Irish determination and Irish eloquence. In 1906 the three districts voted to consolidate. A sympathetic citizen. John Swaney, gave twentyfour acres for a campus. A campus for a country school! Eighteen thousand dollars voted by the people made the building one of the best school houses in Illinois. Wagons carry the children who are too remote from the building to walk. The principal of this country school is paid a salary of $1000. On the campus is an agricultural experiment plot of six acres conducted in co-operation with the Agricultural School of the State University. A four-year high school course is offered with liberal opportunity of election of studies. Country boys and girls may here study agronomy, animal husbandry, horticulture, domestic science and art, and all phases of work vitally related to the fundamental needs of a people living in the country. 'Culture' subjects are not neglected, but most of all, the real basic interests of culture among an agricultural people are given due emphasis. The culture here developing is more than a veneer. A well-graded elementary and high school course in a building of exceptional excellence, a campus of twenty-four acres devoted to agricultural work, a tract of splendid natural forest, an enlarged country neighborhood bound into a sympathetically co-operative social unity, an abiding interest in the best and the truest in real country life, possibilities for higher culture not inferior to those of cities of ten thousand people--these are the products of the two years of strenuous endeavor of the Irish girl with the dynamic ideal. TRANSPORTATION CONTRACTS. An idea of the method employed in letting contracts for transportation of pupils can be gotten from the following forms which are employed...