Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-20
TO DIsPLA ACE ONE
TEACHER SCHOOL
State Agent For Schools
Presents Scheme For
Enlargement
WILL ENLARGE
DISTRICT FIRST
Increased Fund From Additional
School Area viii Make Possible
Larger Grounds, Better School,
More Teachers and High
School Training.

To establish a three teacher rural
elementary school in the place of every
Inefficient, one teacher type Of school
in tn various progressive rural com
munities in North Carolina is the aim
Of Mr.. L. c. Brogden, State Agent for
Elementary Schools.
The scheme which Mr.. Brogden has
advanced and has been preaching is |
embodied in his report to DR.. J. Y.
Joyner as Superintendent of PublicI
instruction.
ct has been our purpose" declares
Mr.. Brogden in this report, 'sto study
with the individual teachers in the
representative counties selected, the
needs and conditions of the typical
individual schools including the most
efficient, the average, and the most
inefficient Upon our visitation to
these schools, and after we have hadI
time to make a careful study of their
needs and conditions, the physical con !.
dit1ons of the school room, it's heating
lighting and ventilation; its appear
ance; its comfort and its equipment;
the appearance of the school yard, its
provisions for sanitation, and after
/ having the time to study the work OF
! the teacher; her graduation and cIassi-
/ fcation Of pupils; her daily program,
her school management and conduct
of recitation; we have then attempted
improvements through private confer
ence with the Superinten dent
Three Teacher Type Minimum.
Mr.. Brogden holds that the three
teacher type of school is the minimum
for giving the proper training foc
country life. In his reply to DR..
Joyner he outlines the scheme which
is already working successfully in
Granville, Johnson, Sampson, North
ampton, Alamance and Mcdowell coun-
ties as well as several others.
The first step necessary is to enlarge
the territory of the one teacher school
district. The average size of the one
teacher school district is now approx
ed that this be enlarged as much as
possible without putting the children
to the inconvenience and hardship of a
too great distance. Two and one half
miles, it is set out, should not be con-
sidered an unreasonable walking dis
tance when the roads are fairly good.
Thus, the limit of four by five miles
for the school district, or better yet,
five by five miles, or twenty-five square
miles for the district, is reached logi-
ca1ly.
School and District.
"A. school site of six or eight acres
with room for athletics and demon
Y stration farm work, three room
school building, and three competent
: teachers, home for the male prin-
f eipal with provisions for the teachers
: boarding there, all these will be Sc
: cured through the increased funds
d growing from the increased size of the
: school district.
f Two Years High School.
S The principal and two assistants
: will give the boys and girls of thu
a school at least two years of higl
) school instruction so that when the,
n complete the course in the three teach
d er school they will be able to comp1et
[ the full course of the State High schoo
y in two years.
If Training for the Farm.
"since by far the largest number o
S the children now growing up in thi
if community will become farmers an
it farmers wives, and since all the edu
ID cation that at least ninety per cent Q
a them will ever receive for life for wor
"a will be gotten in their local schools
r. then it becomes necessary that thi
K ninety per cent shall have that train
ut ing and that education best suited
IS their life and work in this community
i'd says Mr.. Brogden and therefore urge
the organizations of Boys Farm Lii
e. Clubs for the boys and Tomato Grow
a ing Clubs for the girls to provide trair
y, ling best suited for the life and wor
of the young people in their commu1
ity.
More Than Toll and Drudgery.
But Mr.. Brogden continues: "Coul
ek try life. is more than toll and druid,
at. cry; more than corn growing an
o. bread making; it is more than a strel
uous struggle for food and raimen