Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-20

Progress in Rural education is
seen not alone in the actual achieve
ments, which are very encouraging,
but in the plans for the future, and
in the advanced position taken by
leading educators relative to rural
education and rural life problems.
This progress is expressing itself
in various ways. Who, even twenty
years ago, heard of Good School
Week." Good English Week" "Clean
up Day., "Parent-Teachers Associa-
tion," Mothers Meetings." School
Societies." Hot Lunches" and vari-
Gus other organizations and actIvi-
ties.
The first thing the parents wish to
know is to be sure that the child is
beng taught in some sort of school.
He must be learning regularly with
attendance broken only for valid rea-
sons. He should do well in his studies
progress normally from grade to
grade, and at the end graduate from
the grades and later from high school
These are the main considerations for
parents in the education of their
children. Good teachers, good
course of study, schools economically
and yet efficiently managed are con-
tributary factors in the satisfactory
progress of the children through the
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of the parents the thing of primary
Importance.
The interests of the state in it's re-
latiOn to the schools are fundamental
ly the same as those of the parents.
The state wishes to see as many chill
dren as possible in school. 1t desires
that thesechildren attend as regularly
as possible, so as to eliminate unnec-
essary failures, and graduate at the
end of the school year. The teaching
force, course, of study, school librar-
les, school finances, school nurses and
supervisors are all part of the ma
chine to bring forth an educated
school population.
What are We doing in Villas Co.?
are we keeping step with this pro-
gress? Have the 2O66 children of
school age (4-2O) in Villas County
fair chance to get the education to
which they are entitled? From the
following information let the reader
Judge for himself.
In giving a report of the schools
in Villas County it is quite proper that
we should begin with study of the
schools and the condition of the en-
rolled childrens' progress.
The thirty-six rural schools in vi
las County are distributed among the
towns as given below:
Arbor Vitae Dist. Is
Arbor Vitae Dist. 2-3
Cloverland Dist. IA
Conover Dist. IA
Pennington Dist. 1-2
FIambeau Dist Ii
Flambeau Dist. 2-1
Lincoln Dist. IA
Pressure Isle Dist. Ii
Plum Lake Dist 1-2
Phelps Dist. IL
State Line Dist. Ii
Washington Dist. IL
The following towns have erected
new buildings and remodelled others
ArbOr Vitae leads the list with five,
four new buildings and one repaired,
one. The Hall, Faulkner, High Lake,
and Bakkin are new, while the one
at Arbor Vitae was remodelled at
considerable cost.
Conover erected fine new struc-
ture at Conover and enlarged the one
in the Pioneer district to accommo-
date the growing school population.
Cloverland built three new schools
this year, the Boot Lake, Perch Lake
and Muskellunge schools. Pressure
Isle built one known as the Pressure
Isle School. Plum Lake replaced the
Star Lake School, which burned sew
eral years ago, with a small, but a
built two, one department school on
the Iron River road, the Long Lake
and Luomi schools, and fine two
department building on the Sand
Lake road consolidating the Sand
Lake and Ranges schools. This is
known as the Burman school. 1t en-
nlovs two teachers and has an enroll
ment of some seventy children. Wash
ington built one, near Anvil Lake
known as the Sanborn school.
Considering our sparsely settled
county and the short period, the peo-
pie in the different communities have
had to get start, | doubt whether
any county can show greater achieve
ments along the line of buildings.
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