The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-08-09

HOW TO GET BETTER scHooLs-FIvE SUGGESTIONS
DR. Ciaxon in his printed recent Progressive
Farmer on How We May Get Efficient Rural Schools laid special
emphasis five fundamental requirements vitality
important that we going to summarize them here.
Fat the school of people we
farming folks and the majority of will remain Why,
then should rural school system first of all
the lives to lead and the work do By all
aae the training Of the farm boy and girl liberal possible
tine time let's always fundamentals first Latin may
he well enough their place. but any system
chem preference and S bad.
Aim the three-eacher school. The little oneoom one
seadf school must because possibly be efficient To
c Ge schools with better buildings, better equipped and with
d better teachers consolidation the remedy
thousands OF Southern communities that may wonderfully
h1eh educational facilities by combining
small weak schools into consolidated school adequate
teaching force Putting aside all preconceved ask
sell ncere whether this of your neighbohood
! We must have longer school
striking relation between the length the school pro-
RdachieVement of any is we'll known the
s. th the bitter truth is that lag Just long
content to children getting average only
Ms days of schooling year At least six months 2O days should
DC the minimum and every community should make 100
days ITS ideal to at
Better teachers, better paid No
teachers If these poorly paid naturally
rft1D the communities that willing pay good
t cost money but money spent for them is the wes invest
tnat be made
Keep good teachers permanently Finally get good
teachers every effort should be keep drifting
eaceT wandering from school school after
identified with community life and has little
Rnuny development Provide home and farm principal
all teachers and their become iden
Ged with those of the community.
Yes changes money they will also cost time and
But your money, time and effort be better expended
that will happier, better your
and girls for the boys and girls of your neighborhood-
hee surer of making community permanently
for your having lived in it?
through what other you get any
country people pay than from schools for their children
d roads throughout the county? Our
bon has made good possible with the many
mall schools the and their effort has been the past
rated sections where consolidation desired the
card but local conditions wouldn't allow
the country school oppose
ohdaon of the school larger
pped buildings though they placed always
Somebody will need be farther schoohouse
Others 10 overcome this feature of the opposition conoda
he Board prepared transportation to the children
at greater distance than miles from the chooouse and
oud meet with the cooperation of the people thus
unfortunate that for political Representative
led upon to sdetrack improved Ben Hill county bill this
bill designed to give all the white children of county
term and free school books with high school privileges
The taxpayer who it said objected to the higher
No purposes mills in the country the same as in
ened nothing by their objection, since the county
IN, under the present system forced to raise the
kvay from the old rate of mills to mills this year.
to the patrons from this short-sighted policy is the
rm in the rural Schools which from to-
The unanimous of the county Board
had for the improved school bill and every patron
ools that could be reached had approved
Believed do and everyone else did that the child
amers should have the quality of teachers and the
opportunity do the children in the and this bill
put them equality with them greater o
try it again year and hope our Rep
keep him in the faith.
meeting of the rural school at the court
gerald on the second Tuesday in September 10 A. NJ
oard of Education will be in session that day and
I'll natters the good of the whole county.