Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-11-25

so we can put them in our school
notes. Almost all the teachers live
in families where one of the county
papers is taken. If you do not, it
will not cost you much to subscribe
for it during your school term.
The Rural School Inspector inspect
ed thirty-eight schools last week. Ali
these schools can be Standardized.
Some Of them were standardized the
past year, but there still remain one
or two things to do before you get
your money. We cannot send you
the money until you have complied
with all the conditions. We will send
to each school board, where their
schools were inspected, list of just
what is needed for each particular
school. It seems too bad that some
schools refuse to get the things that
are needed in order to get this State
Aid. The State Aid will almost pay
for them the first year, and you should
remember that they get the aid every
year, and that the state is really pay
ing for these things. Besides the
things required are nothing but what
every teacher and pupil needs to make
her school a good school. Every
school that has high school gradu-
ate, or better, for teacher, and mas
a term of at least eight months, can
be standardized. will enumerate
below just what is required to make
a school Standard School:
~ Encyclopedia lat least vol
umes).
(2) Large dictionary and five
small ones. t>
t3) Two sets of supplementary
readers for each grade, so that eacn
| pupil may have a chance to read at
least three different readers each
year.
(4) Set of eight maps, including
a map of North Dakota.
(5) A suspension globe at least
IL inches in diameter.
(6) Single seats.
~ At least one-hundred square
feet of blackboard.
ts) Water jar with individual
drinking cups, or water jar and 'bub-
! bier fountain. The common drinking
cup is banned by law anyway.
| (9) Wash basin and paper towels
or individual towels.
(1O) Either inside closets or out
| side closets with storm shed and
double door to keep out the snow.
(11) Eight month term of schools
| for third class rural and nine for Sec
ond and third class. y
(12G The attendance, must average
| at least seventy five per cent for the
fyear..
(13) Library-seventy-fve vols.
for third class, and one hundred for
others.
Teachers; second class school must
have high school graduate as teach
er, and one who holds a first grade
elementary certificate; third class
| schools must have high school grad
uate who holds second grade ele-
| mentary certificate; first class schools
must have normal graduate, and hold
a professional certificate.
The amount Of State Aid is: Thirty
dollars a year for third class, forty
for second, and fifty for first class.
If the tax rate is more than four
mills, the Aid is duobled,. and is
trebled if the tax rate is more than
seven mills.
| Now, none Of the things mentioned
above are unreasonable, and every
school should have them anyway. We
have almost q hundred schools in this
county that could be standardized
were it not for the fact that SO, many
have seven months Of school only.
n We claim to have the best one
room schools Of any county in the
state. Let's get busy and standard
ize them, and get that metal placard
on them so that a1l may see that we
have the best xchools in the state. j.
Provision is going to be made by
the next legislature to enable districts
where they cannot raise enough
money BY taxation to get the money
in some other way. We have one or
two districts in fhis county where
they are having q hard time getting
enough money even to pay teachers
good salary.
Let's have the flag flying by De-
cember 1st.
ST. PAUL GunMAN CAUGHT
st. Paul -"Big Chris" Dowlins, no
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