The Cordele dispatch., 1920-01-26
CONSOLIDATING SCHOOLS

SIdluIluI anu ul6H oIuOS'o vi thN
state provided for in the Legislation
which wtls pissed last sumincr. a
fund OF 100000 Is being used in the
organization of county consolidated
high schools AMI the consolidation
Of the country elementary schools.
One of the first great movements
! for the good of the children of this
county and their litter education
should be the consolidation Of the
SYSTEMS This Is small county and
! tsiy possible to handle by an edu-
GATOR well equipped for the work.
| The money spent in salaries for
heads of the two systems would pro
| vide handsome salary for one mnn
directing all the schools and such
| educator might easily put the county
and city on I'm equal basis in work
ana advancement in method.
The state school superintendent is
after in Il large way for the whole
state what we ought to be after for
ourselves in Crisp county. Nothing
here or elsewhere is an interest that
viii stop with less than the best
schools. We are not doing justice
by the children when We are cling
ing to plans INT have been Outgrown
for twenty years. The schools ought
to be in the very fore of progress
Every progressive moment no mat
ter what it affects ought finally in
The last analysis to push nothing
ahead Of the advancement of the
schools. They should come first
follow. Superintendent Brittain's
comment on WEI't consolidation is
meaning in the elementary country
schools under the late law and ask
yourselves whether we might better
our schools.
There is a provision in law now
by which out of the 100000 set
aside for this development work,
any county in which those old-timr
one-room, one-teacher elementary
schools will consolidate so that
they may establish a modern
fou1-teacher, four,room school. That
consolidation is given Il $500 aid
fund by the state to further the'con-
soldation work." says Mr.. Britain.
Up to the time OF the recent meet
ing of the state board there were
thirteen buch consolidated clemen
tary schools qualified ana so passed
up by the board. AS an illustration oil
the fact TINT the door is still open"
six others have come in from as
many counties and asked for invcsti-
cation of their mprits with view to
being qualified and they are now
under consideration by the state
aoard. They IRE Dudley, in Laurens
county: Spring. PNce in Murray;
Shiloh in Wheeler. Mt Carmel in
Wilkinson, Excelsior in jeff Da}
and Dccpstcp in Washington.
Mr.. Britain confidently expects
when the board holds its next re
gular quarterly meeting in March
the number Of these elementary
schools that will Hlye come in UNI
der the consolidation plan will have
run to forty.
on the surface those people who
do not dis to find the advantages
may present the argument that this
consolidation lessons the number of
schools in a community but those
people will not have stopped to cal
culatc the difference between one
teacher in one room dividing her
time in il day between four different
classes teaching each different
liranch of different studies; and
enc teacher in Il -four roont building
having had consolidated for her all
! the four classes of one grade to
which she can devote her whole
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