The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-21
Lee County Country Schools May Sc
cure Six Dollars Per Pupil Every
Year by Taking Proper
-
Measures.
STANDARD SET BY IOWA
State Superintendent McClanahan Is
sues Tentative Schedule of Re-
quirements for Obtaining
This Money.

state the very considerable amount
of Sc per pupil enrolled by keeping
their school houses and schools UP
to standard by a new law passed by
the last legislature.
Superintendent Lynn is interested
In getting as much OF this state
money for the Lee county schools
as possible and will take up the mat
ter with the directors IN an effort to
make all the schools In Lee county
standard schools, If possible.
State Superintendent Mechanism
has sent out suggestive score cards
to all the county superintendent for
their constructive criticism, and after
hearing from them, the state depart
ment will adopt score card for use
under this new law.
What the Law Provides.
The law provides that 1t applies
pnly to districts wholly outside
cities, towns and villages, and any
consolidated district.
The school to be known as stand
ard school must be held for eight
months every year, including the
previous year. and must keep its
school house in good repair, sanitary
well equipped, heated and ventilated,
and do good school work.
The state superintendent shall pre-.
scribe and promulgate the require
ments in detail. The teacher must
have first grade certificate.
Every year on June 80, the county
superintendent shall report all
standard schools on blank forms,
and shall furnish each standard
school with suitable door mark,
stating its quotas as standard, get
ting these signs from the state super
intendent at the cost of the state.
How Schools viii Be Tested.
The tentative plan of grading the
schools to determine whether they
are standard is on the following plan,
the numbers denoting the weight
given each item, and every school
scoring five or more being designated
standard Iowa school entitled to
the Sc per pupil per year from the
state:
Grounds
Two separate sanitary closets or
two clean ordinary outside
toilets. Required .............. q
Fenced playground of at least one
acre ....-.,....
Supervised play provided for
baseball, basketball, tennis, etc. 2
School garden or trees.
Condition of grounds-lawa and
fences well Kept l
Suitable supply of fuel and kind
Ing ................... l
Iotal ................... 8
Building
Fifteen square feet Of floor space
and two hundred cubic feet Of
air space for each pupil 2
Ventilated by satisfactory system. 5
Ceiled or plastered and no leaks. !
Paint outside and inside in first
class condition 2
iNestibule and good doors, furnish
ed with locks and keys.
No broken windows .......
Windows one-seventh of floor space
: --one-fifth in new buildings. %.
Windows on left and rear Of pupils
Windows well supplied with good
shades and sash curtains 49,. 3
Total ...........,.... ~
Equipment
Single seats (three sizes recon-
merdod) ........... .. ....,. 2
Teachers desk, mouse-proof am
two chairs. Required .... q
Blackboard, fitted with chalk
trougas, suitable crayon and
e,ascrs, at least sixteen linear
feet per room-slate preferred. |
Ample equipment for primary
work ...........r....... -..... z /
Library approved by county super
intendent and inspector. 3 |
Framed pictures on walls-three. ! |
Suitable dictionary, maps, globes,
charts and other appliances. Re
= CURED ,....-.... 2 .
Good water supply and covered
water cooler, with spigot AMI
Individual drinking cups or sani-
tary bubbler and sanitary towels 5
Buildings and equipment clean and
we'll Kept .............. 3
United States flag, not less than
four by six feet ............... l
Musical instrument and playground
euuipment-two sets Of supple
mentary readers for each grade
in grades one to six, IN good con-
dition NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Total .............. 20
Full. neat and accurate school
register .......-..... 1
One teacher for every thirty.flve
or fewer pupils enrolled. ...... l
All teachers with first or higher
grade certificate .............. I
Teachers retained for second year,
or longer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3
Daily program posted in room and
- followed
Teachers manual on desk. .-... !
School visited by all directors -. 8
Home of all pupils visited by
teacher OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3
School savings, nature study, cur
rent events, original work by
teachers or pupils, attendance
averaging 80 percent or better