Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-20
RURAL SCHOOLS
| BEING BROUGHT
To HIGH PLANE
Educational Facilities in
Santa Fe County Are I'M
proving; Rural Supervisor
Is Doing Good Work.
Especial Correspondence to The Journal

tspeeial Correspondence to The Journall
! Santa Fe, May 19-The state
department of education has re-
ceived the twenty-second county
schoo! superintendent visitation
report from County School Super
!ntendent Mrs. Adelina Otero- War
rem, Santa Fe county.
| The report shows that there are
forty-siX school districts, employing
seventy-fiVe teachers. Seven teach
eFs hold life and professional GER
J tificates. thirty-six hold first grade
certificates and thirty-two hold
| second grade certificates. No third
grade teachers are employed in the
county. The teachers salaries
range from SIS to $125, the salary
being graduated on experience. The
rural schools run a full period of
nine months,
Mrs. Warren mas visited and in
spected all the rural schools in the
! county. She has organized parent
teachers associations, part-time
classes and special classes for il
literates. The county has a very
active county teachers association
and the rural districts are divided
into sections for the purpose of
| holding teachers sectional month
| ly meetings with the view of Sc
curing a better understanding of
conditions, exchanging ideas and
practical methods and bringing
about a closer cooperation, High
schools have been established at
| Cerrillos and Stanley, pupils are
transported by automobile to these
! high schools, from nearby districts,
namely. Madrid to Cerrillos and
| Hyer to Stanley. Transportation
is also in operation in other dis
| tricts where children live great dis
stances from the school house.
Two new school houses were built
| during the year. one at Glorieta
and one at Canada de Alamos Sub
stantial cement and rock founda-
| ton were put under six school
houses and new floors were placed
] in seven others. All the school
houses were repaired and facilities
improved. Extra rooms were add
ed to five different schools. namely,
Tesuque, No. 9; San Antonio, No.
4; Cienaga, No. 6; Stanley, No. 10,
and Lamy, No. IL. Two new schools
were esta b1ished, one at the mining
town of Waldo and the other on
the Santa Fe and Rio Arriba county
line in District No. 20. San llde-
lfonso. Eighteen school houses
were pebbledashed and school
grounds placed in good condition.
All the schools have been provided
with sanitary drinking fountains
and have quite a number of vol
umes in the library.
Through the efforts and assist
ance of Mrs. Ruth c. Miller, state
Supervisor of industrial education.
special courses in domestic science
ace being taught in the schools OF
Cerrillos, Stanley. Chimayo, Cerro
Gorde, Tesuque. Madrid, Arroyo
Negro, Cow Springs. San Antonio
and Santa Cruz. Hot lunches are
also being served in all schools
where the children are obliged to
take a lunch to school The part
time classes for illiterates, which
are reported as accomplishing
splendid results, are being taught
by Miss Lucy Balfe. at Chimayo;
]. d. Silva, Cienaga; Mrs. Lynette
Maxwell Madrid; Miss Lola VIII
liams, Canada de Alamos; Miss
Amelia Sena, Cerro Gorde. and Mrs.
Fannie Morrow, Cerrillos. Miss
BaIfe has given instruction in part
time and evening classes in home
economics for the women at Chi
mayo.
one of the most valuable and i'm
portant innovations which were
introduced this year was the en-
ployment of Mrs. Lola c. Armi1o
as rural school supervisor. she
visits the schools week or longer
at a time, assisting the teacher, en-
couraging her. acting as truant Of
ficer, finding out the cause of de-
linouency, helping to instruct IN
the home and reporting sickness
The Red Cross nurse visits the
rural districts and makes thorough
examination of the children as TO
physical and mental condition. the
compulsory school attendance law
is being enforced through the
weekly reports made by the teach
ers to the county superintendent
Very little sickness has been re-
norted and truancy has been re-
duced to a minimum. A full force
of teachers has been maintained
throughout the term, with no loss
of time and the cooperation Is re-