River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-11-05


side territory supplies about 800.
A circle of 50-miles radius drawn
about the site of each state normal
school will show how there "home
territories" overlap. While the other
schools are cut in upon a little in
each instance, with the exception of
Superior, your map will show that
the Eau Claire territory cuts that of
River Falls nearly in half. Milwau~
kee cuts deeply into the Whitewater
territory, the respective populations
more than offset that factor.
AS a result of the location of
ninth normal school at Eau Claire
the territory tributary to River
Falls was seriously cut. The map
represents the relative situation Of
the several schools. The population
of the territory tributary to each in
round numbers is as follows taken
from the census on population OF
Wisconsin counties:
Milwaukee Normal
"home territory" over 100000
Oshkosh Normal
"home territory" over 100000
Stevens Point Normal
'home territory" 100000
Whitewater Normal
"hcme territory" 245,OOO
Eau Claire Normal
"home territory" 10000
Superior Normal
"home territory" 175,0OO
La Crosse Normal
"home territory" $4,000
Platteville Normal
'home territory $4,000
River Falls Normal
"home territory" $4,000
In addition to the population of the
home territory, consideration should
be given, in making comparison
of resources, to the accessibility of
the school to outside territory The
map will show the extent to which
the River Falls School is hemmed in
by other schools.
Wisconsin is suffering from an
over supply of teacher training in
stitutions. In addition t. the nine
State Normal Schools there are
something like 80 County Training
schools 1.-TWO such within the River
Falls territory-St. Croix Falls and
Menomonie) and over 80 teacher
training high schools (three within
the River Falls territory-Ellsworth
New Richmond and Glenwood City,.
In addition there is the special school
for the training of teachers of
Manual Training and Home Econom-
les located at Menomonie (also with
in the River Falls DISTRICT.
The general cause assigned for the
decline in attendance, which is gen.
eral throughout the Normal school
system, is the over supply of teach
ers. This decline ranges from so to
| 100 students thru the schools of the
system, with River Falls one of the
heaviest losers.
For the past six years the River
Falls Normal has had an enrolment
averaging about $50 students, being
about the same as Stevens Point,
Whitewater and La Crosse; slightly
larger than Eau Claire and Platte
vile and somewhat smaller than
Oshkosh, Superior and Milwaukee.
In order to maintain this enroll
ment it has been necessary for the
"home territory" Of the River Falls
Normal to produce crop of students
twice as large as that produced by
the same population elsewhere in the
state.
In view of the decline in enroll
ment at the opening of the present
school year it appears that the
"home territory" must be cultivated
even more intensively, and that to
overcome the geographical handicap,
as shown on the map, ways and
means must be found to break into
and across the zones of other schools
to draw a larger proportion of the
enrolment from outside territory.
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