The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-29

: low grade or inexperienced teachers
In many places our now courses a.
study opened the way for the realize
ton Of a dream of united effort among
! schools OF all classes. Good supervi.
sion and superior teaching talent 4,
our small schools will complete the
work so auspiciousiy begun The one.
room school viii lose its sense Of $50.
lation and join in general movement
toward the consolidated schoci Jus,
as that school joins In the upward
| movement toward the college Ir
such guise do the little farsway noun.
, tain streams unite to form a mighty
river.
The department of public tnstruc.
/, ton has entertained the idea that q
skillfui teacher can take a limited
number of pupils in limited number
of grades and do standard work in a
single as wei as in consolidated
school. ~ seemed important to de-
Velop teachers who could succeed Ia
| THIS iaudabie undertaking and con-
vince them of the fact that with
proper effort they could do work
worthy Of acceptance in any school
Professional Worth
our nth lire Of effort was to
quicken the professional consciousness
Of the teachers by giving standard
tests throughout the state. Last year
We gave test in spelling The con-
dition OF the weather fnterfered with
our plans materially but the results
have more than justified the time and
labor spent in making the tests, and
II they are followed up year after
year condition of Uniform excellence
VIII result which will do as much to
promote stsudardiza ton and 10 broad
Ell the circle of classes aspiring to
high grades as any ons thing that
ca n he imagined
There is, 7 believe. agreat deal o..
undiscovered. as we'll as undeveloped,
teaching talent in Virginia. II must
lie the task Of the state department.
acting through the division superir-
tendents snd local teachers associa-
tons 10 bring this talent to light and
correlated use This movement can
best be forwarded ny the progressive
policy Of standa rdization As applied
TO the one and tive room schools IL
appears tor infuse new life and create
new relations, as applied TO high
schools ii appears To lead the small
or rural high school up the path OF
dignity and recognition until men
shall no longer say Can anv good
thing come out Of Nazareth?
Financial Problems.
our plans we're arm bftious. AZ all
will agree. and the question Of nuanc-
ing them pressed heavily upon us
Nee ordingly our sixth and most DIFF
f1cuIt cxlfrsiou into this new country
Nc raH the Public school Land or the
South was search for gold. Conser-
vettt7r estimates fixed upon $50 90 per
~
auirernert for rural school PURPOSES.
THIS thought was presented to the
legisla'ure ana the people Al large in
a pamph}e; entitled Counting the
Cost and Il WAS made clear that local
letfe@ 'laa almost reached the limit
ESQ ce-atsl provided under existing
laws
THE legislature could not see it's
way clear 20 give Us more than half
OF the amount we asked directly az
its hands, hat II amended statutes
and enacted Laws which permitted the
local levies 70 be raised to seventy
FIVE cents on the hundred dollars and
provided that III addition to the sums
derived from school ieYies the boards
II Supervisors as-r.a-s certain p.
fer schools cut Of the
general sounty funds The legisla-
"a $3.50 NJ II iNE@ ar tAHk5tAt hlAishe A'N
adding = clause - the appropriation
7tff wt7trf forced sz-erv district rartt-
riptiug IN he ere and two room
fund to levg local school taNes Al least
equal 20 tie STerage levy throughout
the state 20. the preceding year.
our figures IN Counting the Cost
we're based on ths statistics nj ses-
sion lsiSi4 and we reached the con
'luslA1 TINT II we could secure an in