Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-04
8 CONSOLIDATED
RURAL SCHOOLS
IN SAN JUAN co.
Educational Facilities Are
Being Brought to a High
Plane; Agricultural De-
partment a Feature.
Especial Correspondence to The Iournol)

Especial Correspondence to The Journal
Santa Fe, n. NJ. June 3-The
state department of education is in
receipt Of the twenty sixth county
school superintendent's visiting re-
port from Earl Douglas, county
school superintendent, san Juan
county.
The report shows that there are
fifty teachers employed Three
ed schools will build new and
hold life certificates, forty-two
ho'd first grade certificates. three
hold second grade certificates and
lno are neIdlng emergency certifi-
Gates, one of whom could have Sc
cured a first grade certificate and
the other n second grade certificate
if they could have taken the Oc-
tober examination. OF these fifty
teachers, nine are employed in the
town of Pennington and eight are
employed in the town of Aztec.
Both of these towns offers a full
four year high school course and
Pennington has one of the twenty
high schools in the state on the ac-
credited list OF the North Central
Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary schools. Aztec also expects
to be placed on the select class in
another year.
San Juan county has three con-
solidated schools. The central
school, Kirkland, with six teachers,
the Blanco school with four teach
ers and the La Plata school with
three teachers. In spite of the
many obstacles encountered this
first year, these schools have ac-
complisbed wonders for their COM
munities and the patrons are en-
thusiastic in regard to their futufe.
1t is estimated that four months
of the kind of school they have
had for this year is worth nine
months of the kind they had under
the old one teacher. The children
have made more progress TINS one
year than the three previous years
under the old system. These con-
solidated schools are considered on
par with any consolidated schools
in the state, as they are in charge
OF capable and well qualified in
struCtors. Two of these consolldat-
dated schools will build new and
up-to-dat school houses this sum-
mer- Blanco and La Plata. The
one at Blanco will be large enough
to accommodate two hundred and
fifty pupils.
The county owns nine automo-
bile buses which are used in trans
porting pupils to the schools Two
of these are used at Kirkland, two
at La Plata and two. at Blanco
There are also two auto buses used
at Aztec to bring in the pupils
above the fifth grade from Flora
Vista and Rosing, at which places
teachers are employed for the FIRST
five grades although no permanent
consolidation has been made OF
those schools with Aztec. Five OF
the nine auto school car drivers
have been pupils in the schools
served by their cars and the car
that has cost the least to run ana
that has caused the least trouble,
this wear, has been driven by the
only lady, driver, girl Is years OF
age. who is a freshman in the high
school of the Kirkland consolidated
district,
The progress in San Juan county
has been very commendable.
Teachers have been earnest and
have co-operated with the county
SUPERINTENDENT. In spite of the ma
tony wide shortage in teachers all
OF the schools have been properly
SUPPLIED and the school terms
started on time 1t is also true that
this years teaching corps is the
strongest ever employed in the
county. The teachers have been
devoted to their schools, conscien-