Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-02-08
ROCKY FORD'S
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
With Some Valuable Suggestions to Up-to-Date
School House Construction

struciion OF property when = 6rc
does occur: to get light from any d.
rcction and ventilation from all di-
reciions: TO avoid the noise disturb
anee that ono room gives 30 another;
TO give the teacher an individuality
OF control in discipline and In teach
inI ;ha, she cannot have where hun
dTcis arc hcfdci in one building and
marched in and out together: these
are y part OF the good reasons set
forth by tho c. =. & !. bulletin IN
support Of one room detached school
buildings: and they arc enough to
settle the question with every espcr-
fenced teacher aud school board. A
further god reason Is that On this
plan \ new room can be built when
II Is needed. The large building in
wolves building far beyond the I'M
mediate needs Of Oh. district and icas-
ing rooms unused for ycaf,. a. VIC
have done In Rocky Ford. and then
dong without much needed room
Tor year ar two because wc were
no, ready TO bond the district for
large building. The many-foomcd
building is always either ahead Of or
behind the need. oi the district.
We all know. whether we arc hon
es; enough 90 say 20 OF not. iha: the
reason for putting up ono large
snowy school buiidin. Is tn sell
land. TO put profits into individual
pockets. This Ia perhaps reason
enough TO block the reform suggest
cd by c. Y. & I. bulletin. unless Il is
pointed out that . group OF small
artistic buildings grouped on we'll
tep; campus can be made as adsan-
iascous TO the town lot Spectator
az can ono large and generally pain.
fully ugly building. The suggested
plan Of such 4 row Of small build
an able architect for the c. +. h ].
ton of tho Spanish mission and tho
Italian Villa styles Of architecture.
The central building IL a general as
scn,biy room and In tho basement u
placed a janitor's residence and all
the general utility features Of the
school. The buildings arc arranged
in sctni-eireie. with aowcr-bor!crcd
lawn In front aud playground in
rear.
The c. r. & I. Co. says there Is no
excuse for not adopting its plans in
the statement that land is scarce.
We beg TO differ. And so long as
wc have such concerns as the c. r. &
I. Co. organized for tho prime pur.
pose Of land monopoliza'ion. Il will
he scarce TO the common people
who attend and support the common
schools. Rocky Ford has too much
school land in ono place and too lit
tic in another. Tha; Is because in
the course Of our speculative land
dealings Il was somebody's advantage
to sell the dis,rie; land in ono spo,
and no; to sell IL in another. We
have large buildings on both pla's.
built largely for speculative effect.
and only more of less convenient
for their purpose and more or less
attractive architceturaiiy. We shall
probably have to put up with the in
vcstmcnt as VIC have u in large
measure. But l, Il bad.
The day may possibly come when
the land spceulator who proposes
to lay out a town site will be re-
quifcd by law to include in his plan
the reservation Of certain blocks for
school. for library and for park pur-
poses. and the population which
moves in. builds homes and gives
value to his town lots, will no; be
called upon to go without a convcn-
lent school site or pay an cxtrava-
gantly cSorbitant price for ono.