The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-19
Our Community School.


in the broad step we are making here
in the development Of our country
schools. Recently the Press asked
Superintendent Ballard of this city
for a statement on the community
school idea and when the reply had
been received, the following splendid
reference was made to it, all of which
is appreciated by the people of this
community:
1.-THE Savannah Press has referred
before to the splendid advancement
being made in Glynn county in the de
velopment OF the country schools. The
Press confesses to considerable in.
terest in this proposition because OF
the need Of better country schools
in Chatham county and the necessity
of providing some way of getting the
children who live in osilated commun-
tiles to these schools. The Press has
received the following letter from Mr..
N. II. Ballard, the superintendent OF
the public schools of Brunswick and
Glynn county:
The community school recently
erected Is the beginning Of va
Tiety of school plants which the
board Of education intends to
erect all over the county and in
time supplant the one and two
teacher schools used at present.
1t is erected on ten-acre plat of
ground and consists of teachers
cottage, domestic science cottage
and a four-room school building
built of white brick with Ludo-
wici thing. The buildings are all
beautifully finish 1 and with the
very best furnishings Two acres
of the ground have been cleared.
This contains the three character
iStic soils OF llic community and
will be under the direction OF the
county farm demonstration agent,
who will use IL as an expert
mental plat with the hope of in
teresting the men of the com
munity in better farming. The
domestic science cottage will not
only be used TO. teach the chill
dren of the school to cook hut
will become the center with which
we hope to gather the women of
the community at least once
month under the direction of the
domestic science teacher and
trained Nurse, in the employment
of the county health depart
ment, to teach them better house
keeping, care of children, etc.
The county health officer will at
least twice month present to
the people of the community the
| simple sanitary laws. You see at
once that the object of this plant
ia not only for the children, but to
educate and uplift the entire COM
munity 1t is Intentionally placed
in rather poor section of the
county with the idea of develop
ing this section and using all the
influence at our command to inn
prove the homes and arms and
| everything connected with the
lives of the people of the COM
munity in which the building is
located to make living better and
easier A certain number of chill
| dren are transported in wagons.
This is due to the fact that the
/ community is sparsely settled and
II is hoped In few years that
sufficient number of people will
live in the neighborhood OF the
school so that no children need
| be hauled.
This communication shows very
conciscly what our neighboring coun
ty is doing in the matter of schools
for the country. The letter will bear
reading on the part of those who are
Igenerally interested in the develop
ment of Chatham county. II spells
progress and advancement in every
paragraph, line and word What
Glynn county is working for is moi
alone the education of the child, but
as MIR. Ballard says. the object is tC
educate and uplift an entire commun
| ity TO our mind the educating forces
that can do that will have accom-
plished something really worth while
Glynn county has advanced beyond
the stage of the little twenty by thirty
foot school house set in some quiet
spot along country road. 1t has
built genuine country community
center. set upon ten acres of cleared
ground and equipped to do something
more than merely teach the country
Ichildren three RS.
The children from the sparsely
settled parts of the community are
transported in wagons. We like thai