WHAT HAS BEEN DONE 



Layout of Rural School Grounds in McClain County, Oklahoma 





then it must be seen to be appreciated. Many apparently necessary 

 evils of the rural educational problem find their solution automatically 

 in the establishment of a permanent home for the teachers. 



We hope to some day have a teachers' home for every schoolhouse in 

 McClain County. As yet we do not have a great many. They are rap- 

 idly attracting the attention of educators and officials everywhere; in 

 fact, the demand for information has been so strong that I shall have 

 to request you to return the enclosed picture as soon as you have made 

 your sketch. (S. M. McCuistion, County Superintendent, Purcell, Okla.) 



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There are two teachers' cottages in the county. (See page 45.) They 

 are not expensive buildings; in fact, they are just box houses. They were 

 put up merely as an experiment, but have proved very satisfactory. They 

 have enabled the district to get settled men for principals of their school, 

 and have helped them to hold these teachers for a series of years. They 

 have also found that the school property has been much better cared 

 for by having a teacher living on the corner of the grounds where he 

 can see after it. The school property has been kept up in a much nicer 

 shape. I think it will be an excellent thing if we had a law permitting 

 boards to spend the district funds in this way. At present there is no 

 law for it in Oklahoma. (L. L. Sturgeon, County Superintendent, We- 

 woka, Okla.) 



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