The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-06-16

by a recent enactment, is follows:
State High Schools ............ $175O
State Graded Schools ......... 600
Semi graded Schools ............ 800
First Glass Rural Schools. $500. $50
Second Glass Rural Schools. 100
RURAL SCHOOLS OF THE FIRST AND
SECOND CLASS
Schools employing a first grade teacher and
applying for the $3.50 state aid will be known as
first class rural schools; those employing a sec
ond grade teacher and applying for 500 aid will
be known second class rural schools.
REQUIREMENTS
1. School must have been maintained for the
full period of eight months during the year.
2. The teacher in school of the first class
must have held first grade common school
tifcate, it's equivalent of higher rank,
from the beginning of and through the school
year. In one of the second class the teacher
must in like manner have held a second grade
common school certificate. CA limited second
grade certificate does not meet the requirements
of the law -
8. For both classes of rural schools there must
be suitable buildings, outhouses, libraries and
apparatus necessary for doing efficient work
4. The school building and each must be
clean and well kept. Proper provision must be
made for heating and ventilatng
(a) The department does not require any one
particular system of heating and ventilating
school buildings
(b) Heating by stove placed in the middle of
the room and ventilated by doors and windows
only will be regarded inadequate
Co The duct for admitting fresh air for each
room must be not less than eight inches in di-
ameter or have square surface of less than
fifty inches. The outlet for impure air must
have diameter of not less than ten inches,
square surface of not less than eighty inches.
This is the minimum requirement and has gen.
eral reference to school with not more than
twenty-five pupils. In a larger school the ducts
should be larger. It is to be observed that in
every the impure air must be drawn off
through a duct outlet that is sufficiently
heated.
5. The school must be provided with sufficient
blackboard, slate preferred, and Webster's In
ternational, Standard, a Century Dicton-
airy. It must have at least complete set of
supplementary readers for each grade in addi-
ton to the regular readers used and we'll
lected library to which there must be made
yearly additions to the amount of at least $1,000.
6. The application of each school must show
that it has maintained it's standard of efficiency
both in equipment and work. and that some i'm
provement has been made during the year. The
school grounds must be kept neat and clean and
present orderly and attractive appearance
Each building should have two properly built
and kept outhouses some distance apart.
Note.-The county superintendent will send
Bulletin and other information request.
STATE AID FOR LIBRARIES.
Very few teachers or boards seem to realize
how much aid they the community at large
may get thro good library, how easy it is
to procure the same for their schools.
In the remote communities books scarce
in the homes, and children either do not read
because they have nothing to read that is suited
to their years, else they read any books
papers which come to their hands. These
often the kind of literature which gives them
a distorted view Of life and arouses their in
terest in communicating and repulsive conditions
when their minds should be free from all evil.
No teacher board should allow this when
books be obtained easily
At the first purchase Of books, the State will
furnish dollar for every dollar provided by
the school, not exceeding $4,000 for the first
years purchase, thus enabling a district which
furnishes $1,000 to receive $40 90 worth of books,
and district which furnishes $4,000 to receive
$4,000 worth. ... ...-
Every following year the state will give the
district $1,000 for that purpose, providing the
district furnishes at least the same amount.
Every teacher raise $1,000 for that pur-
pose. A subscription list circulated social, or
a school entertainment given with the under
standing that the funds go for books often nets
the school from $500 to $4,000, and the whole
community receives benefit that not be
estimated.