The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
BETTER AND CHEAPER WORK
Report on Mckee Consolidated
Schools Shows Benefits Com
pared With Old Style


Mckee school district, read recently
at the meeting of the Mckee Imp Owe
ment club, was sent to the Herald by
Secretary w. E. Gerritsen. This report
is a model of conciseness, the facts
being presented in an interesting
manner and shows the improveme nt
and advantages of the consolidated
school system compared with the old
order of things. The report follows
CIR.
Valuation of district July
1, 1910 ,O60, $50 90
Cash on hand July 1.
1910, general fund " 1855
Cash on hand July l,
1910, sinking fund -. 2,6S422
DIR.
Bonded Indebtedness July
! l, 1910 ............$ 10000
Warrants outstanding. 21.SO
| Teachers salaries for nine months
! ter are $4,000. Grade teachers
are paid from $50 to SIS per month,
principals SIS to 500, supervisor
$1,000 per year.
| District has bought a site for $500
and erected a building on it at a cost
Of $995, paid for without bonding the
district.
The district has paid since CONSOLE
dalton $4,000 of the $500 bonded in
debtedness.
| The board has set aside fund of
$55 for purchase of footballs swings
and basket ball courts for the several
schools, material to be hauled free
and swings to be erected by teachers
and pupils.
| There is also a fund of 800 to be
used for the purchase of laboratory
| apparatus for science work in the
high school, $70.95 of which has been
spent.
| Desk copies have been furnished
schools for each room. Before consol-
idation there was not single room in
| all the schools that had a complete
set.
All schools have been repaired.
rooms being painted and tinted, max
ing them light and clean, and the
teachers have at their own expens g
decorated walls with pictures and
pendants, making cheerful rooms in
which the children take pride and
gives them more interest in school and
school work
Teachers of central building have
bought a piano for their building,
which will be paid for by giving en-
tertainments and concerts, in which
the patrons of the school take a great
interest, as much as SIC being cleared
at one meeting
All schools except one have oee1
equipped with ventilating systems,
| OH
through a large pipe and heated be-
fore entering the room, and a hot-air
fiue draws the foul air from the room,
changing the air in each room every
fifteen minutes.
The board has two committees,
building and grounds and finance and
auditing.
The building and grounds commit
tee has charge of all buildings, r
and repair work The finance AMI
auditing committee audits all bills and
upon their approval by that commit
tee the bills are paid by the board.
Benefits of Consolidation.
All coal, lumber, paint, hardware
and school supplies are bought in
/ quantities and can be obtained much
cheaper than when each school
bought its own supplies.
Examination, drawing papers and
ink are bought by the district at a
saving at least. half compared to the
old plan when each child had to buy
his own at regular retail prices.
Coal is now bought in fifty-ton lots.
where it used to be bought by the
single load, saving about $1.75 per
ton. Seats are bought by the dozen
at 1925, instead of $4.95, the usual
price when only a few are bought.
School supply houses soon fin1 out
that the district is buying in quantities
and know it is worth while to go after
orders and making prices right. There
is great difference in prices of the
different supply houses, for instance,
one house sells chalk at $40 per case,
another sells the same for $4.25; one
sells ink wells at 81 per dozen, an
other at soc; dictionaries, one at
$3.50, another at IS.
For forming a consolidation of five
schools our district will next year
draw 5000 days of extra attendance
from the state and one hundred dol
lars for each year in the high school
taught, of which we now have two.
Under Superintendent Payne al
schools work together under one head
instead of each school. and in fact
each room separately as before.
We get as many as possible, and
: NEXT year we hope to get all the sew