The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-21
DR.. J. L. McBrien Outlines the
Better Rural School Program
of u. S. Bureau of Education

~ RHRAtttE AAta tAAtAf T. t7Ate
eral and Interstate Conference On
Rural Education and Country life
held al the Auditorium. Daytona
Beach Seabreeze. Thursday night. Or
J. l.. McBrien spoke % part a. col.
lows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: We are
here tonight in the interest Of rural
education anu country life upon she
Invitations 81 Governor Hardae aud
your state superintendent OF pnblie
instruction. the Hon. " n Sheats
Permit me 10 cali your attention
briefly TO the program of the United
States Bureau OF Education IN is as-
tion-wide campaign for better rsrai
schools. 1t is as follows
I. A minimum school term Of not
less than one hundred ana sixty days.
2 sufhoient number OF teachers
adequately prepared for their work
8. The consolidation OF rural schools
where practicable. and where imprae-
'tioable 10 make the oneteachar school
the best il IS possible to make il b.
placing therein an adequately pre-.
pared tedSner.
& The teachers home and the dem
onstration farm OF i've or more acres
as the property Of the school and as
an illustration for the community in
better home making and in better
farming
5. An all-year session Of sshsol
adapted to local eonditions-sehool
home projects similar to the work
which Superintendent T. J. Tohm has
carried TO such signal success in
rural Cook county. Illinois.
6. Community organization With the
public school building as social and
civic center.
:. Free country public libraries
similar TO the California plan
s A high school education for eoun-
try boys and girls chat will allow
them TO secure such education with
ont breaking home ties.
4 9. Such readjustment and reforna-
/ ton of the course OF study in ese-
mentary and secondary rural schools
as will adapt them 10 the lives OF the
people they are to serve
10 The elimination OF iiliteTacv
IL Better civic and patriotic in
struction so as to make true Amer.
cans of all who live under the Stars
I and Stripes.
-. The conservation Of rural health.
T 13 Good roads as related TO better
rural schools ard the Improvement Of
country life
IA The needs of the farm wcnen.
/ 10 Federal aid in cooperation with
the states in carrying cut the forego-
ing program 10 its ultimate success.
review OF rural school conditions
in the United States may serve "a
give YOU better understanding Of
the bureaus program for their i'm
iprovement
In funds, in per capita expenditure.
10 length 81 term, In equipment, in
buildings ana grounds. in adminis5ra-
ton and supervision, in courses Of
study. in text books in efficiency 81
1.-THE teaching force. ia salaries paid,
and in everything repaired Cor q first
lclass, school. Town anu cts sehools
fare - far above rural schools as to
make the situation in many sections
of the country depiorahle. The con
dition has been So desperate during
the past . years. when the meagre
opportunities Of pupils Ia rural schools
have been couirasted to the adequate
provisions made for pupils IN city
schools, that it has driven hundreds
of thousands of farmers from the
country 20 the city for the sole puf.
pose 81 giving their children equal
educational opporJani'ies with the
children Of their more fortunate CHS
neighbors This is the reason given
more often than any other By fathers
aud mothers Tor moving from coua-
.Gy Is city And shall W blame
them? There swakea g averv hon
est parents heart 81 his FIRST babes
Grst cry the noble wish TIA give his
child better bringing up than he
himself has had And SIS Secretary
Lane has vel Sand AN ambitious
tContinaed 90 Pare ai