TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



New Jersey. 



Reports no teachers' cottages. (U. S. Bureau of Education.) 



New Mexico. 



One place is trying the teacher's cottage plan this year. It is a se- 

 rious problem in this State in many districts. (U. S. Bureau of Edu- 

 cation.) 



New York. 



Reports one teacher's cottage (Nassau County) valued at $5,000 

 rented to the principal at a reasonable rent, also one cottage used for 

 janitor. 



Another one is not owned by the district but given rent free to 

 the superintendent. One of the buildings is so divided that the teacher 

 lives in one side and the school is held in the other. Two of the dis- 

 trict superintendents wished for teachers' cottages near districts and two 

 did not. Another reports that board can always be obtained in good 

 families at reasonable compensations and that the teacher occupies a 

 good place in the social scale and that her company is much sought after 

 in rural homes. 



Putnam County reports one cottage which the teacher receives rent 

 free. The cottage is owned, however, by William Church Osborn of 

 Garrison. Mr. Osborn owns and runs a free circulating library of which 

 the principal of the school is the librarian. For this work, Mr. Osborn 

 pays a salary and furnishes him a very fine home. He also receives light 

 and heat free. 



Portland County has a teacher's cottage for the union school at 

 Truxton but at present it is occupied by the janitor. 



Saratoga County, second district, reports that there are several local- 

 ities where it is with the utmost difficulty that a teacher can obtain any 

 kind of a suitable board or lodging place and that this is one of the 

 great obstacles in the way of obtaining any kind of proper teaching in 

 the rural districts. The only way that they can obtain teachers is to get 

 a license for someone in the neighborhood who can board at home and 

 this often results in maintaining school to comply with the law but not 

 with any idea of improving the mental condition of the pupils in the 

 school. But he reports that "the people of these communities are appar- 

 ently satisfied with conditions as they exist but the problems that these 

 conditions present to the superintendent are so many and so varied as to 

 try the ingenuity of the best, it seems to me." (U. S. Bureau of Edu- 

 cation.) 



North Carolina. 



Hoke County reports that all the high schools are well provided 

 with nice homes for the principals located on the ground. In two of the 

 country districts, homes have been built where they attempt to get a 

 man and his wife to come and teach the school. These are all in two- 

 room districts. In this county it is a new feature but they believe it is 

 going to prove very satisfactory. The County Superintendent remarks, 

 "We hope to soon be able to employ the teachers for the whole year and 

 have them do odd jobs in the summer like looking after the library, 

 conducting community meetings, taking the census, looking after the 

 corn clubs and the canning clubs. We hope to use these homes for 

 teaching domestic science on a small scale and serve a hot lunch occa- 

 sionally to the school. We want to make the teacher a permanent factor 

 in the community all the year round." 



Gates County has a dormitory used as a teachers' home for which 

 the teacher pays rent and also for the land attached about 25 acres. 

 This land, however, is sublet and no demonstration work is done. Union 

 County reports one teacher's home at the high school of Wesley Chapel 

 and the County Superintendent believes that the teachers' cottage adds 



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