WHAT HAS BEEN DONE 



a great deal to the equipment of schools like Wesley Chapel. Cleveland 

 County reports one teacher's cottage in the Belwood School where the 

 principal lives all the year and manages the school farm of 10 acres. 

 Iredell County has a dormitory in connection with the Farm Life School 

 which is occupied by the teacher of agriculture. Pamlico County is 

 erecting an eight-room home at the expense of the district at Merritt. 

 The County Superintendent says, "We are meeting with many inquiries 

 as to how we raised the money for this work, etc., and in reply to them 

 all will say that the good people went down in their jeans and gave me 

 the money to erect this home with. We are able to get more efficient 

 teachers for the same money and they live happier and better and are 

 giving us better service than they can where they have to adapt them- 

 selves to the condition of any family that they live with. This home 

 will be the community center of this place, we are sure, from the way 

 things are developing now." 



Wilson County. At the Rock Ridge County high school and at 

 Lucama there are dormitories that the teachers use as a teachers' home. 

 These dormitories are furnished by the school. Two cottages, one at 

 Yadkinville and one at Courtney, are furnished to the teachers but the 

 teachers are required to pay the insurance on the building. (U. S. 

 Bureau of Education.) 



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Twenty-two cottages were reported to the State Department last 

 year and they were a success. 



Crosby County. The teacher built her own house from money earned 

 by giving a social. In McHenry County, one old school building was 

 fixed over for a teacher's cottage. One county reports a five-room modern 

 house built for one of the two-teacher schools and a two-room house 

 built for a one-teacher school. Buckingworth County reports an old 

 schoolhouse built over for a teacher's cottage. Burleigh County reports 

 one district remodeling the old school building and one preparing plans 

 for a teachers' home in connection with the new schoolhouse. Hettinger 

 County reports several teachers living in the schoolhouse because suit- 

 able boarding places could not be secured. This is satisfactory where 

 the teacher can get some girl pupil to stay with her. 



In Lamoure County, the consolidated school district of Glenmore 

 rebuilt one of the old schoolhouses and used it for a teacher's cottage, 

 furnishing it rent free. In another district a room was built on to the 

 one-room rural schoolhouse. In this district (Ray) it was practically 

 impossible for the teacher to find a suitable boarding place as the neigh- 

 borhood was entirely made up of foreigners. This room was equipped 

 with a blue flame stove, cot, etc. The teacher furnished his own bedding. 



Bowman County. The Beaver District owns two small houses which 

 are used by the teachers free and the Sunset Butte District owns one 

 similarly used and it will only be a short time before they have two 

 such cottages in their rural districts on account of the difficulty of se- 

 curing board and boarding places. 



Williams County has two districts with teachers' cottages, one a 

 consolidated school district and one a one-room rural school building 

 where the old building was converted into a very comfortable home for 

 the principal's family. All are free and the plan has worked admirably. 

 On stormy days the pupils are taken care of by the teacher until the 

 parents come to take them home. This seems to have worked. to the 

 satisfaction of this district. 



Walsh County reports that in a consolidation of three one-teacher 

 one-room schools, two of the old school buildings were moved on to the 

 grounds and remodeled into teachers' cottages. This will furnish a home 

 for the principal and two assistant teachers, the use of the cottages being 

 free. Ransom County reports five in the consolidated school districts 



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