The Raymer enterprise., 1919-03-13
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
SUGGESTIONS.
BY H. II. Burton

to Others in the district
Although we of Rising Sun Deti-
toned for school this winter at
our rural school house as a tempo
rary improvement in our school ser
vice, as majority. we go on record
as fayoring consolidation, where it
is practical, as the best way to bet
tef our schools In this district which
is . is miles with Raymer nearer
the south end of the district by sew
eral miles and with the consolidated
school in the north end and the
school at Raymer, the patrons Of the
southeast portion and southwest
portion of the district feel entitled
to school in the south end OF the
district to be located as near the cen
ter OF strip about 3 V miles north
and south across the entire south end
of district 81,
This would accommodate at present
around rs pupils that could easily
attend such school, leaving the far
therest ones not over ~ miles from
school. With two small trucks, or Il
barn to protect horses. the trarspor.
tation ,Ild be eas'yr solved
We feel that the service with the
present system is very unsatisfac-
tory to our part of the district and
asst that something be done to relieve
us of this situation before another
school year, as one man in the south
west part says anything would he
better than this truck service We
have had, This man is sending his
hoy into the Buckingham district
Two Of my own and four of Mr..
Carers children are attending
al in the stoneham school on ae-
eIni.t of poor transportation to the
Raynfr srhool
A consolidated school with very
inexpensive school house, would be-
sides giving us a good school close to
our homes, give us a place as a So
eial center, place for Sunday
School, church services, literary pro-
grams and socials Of differen; kinds.
SO necessary to the life OF any eom-
munity.
We heartily endorse the plan OF
having a special meeting before the
annual election, that we might get
together on the better way to i'm
PRO u tfese present oad.;ions and as
we ere to elect an enti,s new board
We ean reasonably expec: some i'm
lrovement as a new boom sweeps
clean. We certainly do nor blame
Mr. Graves for wanting a vacation
with conditions as they ara.
To have fair representation of
the entire district, thare should be
one member from either end Of the
district and one from Raymer. A
member OF the school board should
be one with children of school age.
Nebraska is considering redistrict
ing its schools, consolidating the
small districts and building consol-
idated Schools out in the country.
This plan will enable them 10 pay
the teachers more money and better
equip the school In different ways.
As to the friction between town
ana country. in this matttr there
should be none. A square deal Ii all
we ask. Mr.. Albert Dakan explain
ed this and why 1t existed to our en-
Tire satisfaction. and he certainly un-
derstands what he is talking about.
ihe rural people have been slow In
demanding square deal, but there
Is an occasional agitator that is per.
sistent in getting a square dea. for
his neighborhood
we OF the rural portion of the dis
tllct are accused of trying to boost
the price Of our land by talking ru-
raj schools. wonder what the men
in or close to town has been doing?
A good school near by surely looks
good TO one purchasing a farm. Ey-
en- II his taxes should be enhanced
who pays them? This is better than
to have small children left on the
road in mud or snow having to walk
as far as seven miles happens to come
along. This has happened different
times this winter with only a very
light snow compared with other 10.
The truck only covered a
part OF Its route one week while
school was going on and was almost
until noon getting In several days.
and still we have those in town that
insist on US continuing this system.
II 1t should come one OF those real
snow storms like We sometimes have.
II would be weeks before those cum.
bersome trucks could make the route.