WHAT HAS BEEN DONE 



Two teachers' cottages in this county; one a two-room cottage, the other 

 a four-room cottage. (E. R. Haynes, County Judge, Lubbock, Tex.) 



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Teacher's cottage built at Alief in District No. 46. (J. W. Lyle, County 

 Superintendent, Houston, Texas.) 



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We have fourteen teachers' cottages in the rural districts. They are 

 three and four-room frame buildings. The best of them are built with 4 

 rooms, 14 by 4, with hall running through. They have front porch and 

 screened back porch with pantry on one end and bathroom on the other. The 

 cost in this county is about $1,000. (Typical cottages are shown on page 

 50.) 



In most cases we have a garden of from 1 to 3 acres with each cottage. 

 We find that we can get and keep better teachers where they are provided a 

 place to live. (P. F. Stewart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, San 

 Antonio, Tex.) 



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As to what I think about teachers' cottages, I must say that in my opin- 

 ion, and it has proven itself in my county, that the school can have no 

 greater asset than a teachers' cottage on the school campus in connection 

 with a large school garden as a part of the school equipment. (Typical 

 Walker County views are shown on page 52.) 



It is an easy matter to get first-class married teachers for our schools 

 where teachers' cottages are provided. And when once they are located, 

 they stay with us during the vacation, and look after the school buildings 

 and grounds, and become real active citizens of the community. 



Forty-five per cent of the teachers in Walker County, Texas, are Normal 

 School graduates, about forty per cent hold State First grade certificates, and 

 fifteen per cent other class certificates. Every teacher in the county has had 

 professional training in a Normal school for teachers. This applies only to 

 the white teachers. (J. C. Thomas, County Superintendent, Huntsville, Tex.) 



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Harris County rents a teachers' home for the superintendent and the 

 teachers board with the superintendent at $20 a month. Several county 

 superintendents report that the plan attracts teachers who in turn protect the 

 school property. Twenty-two counties support 72 cottages. Two are not 

 used because they could not secure married men. One county reports they 

 have kept the teachers three years on account of the cottages. Another 

 reports that they have more applications for the position of teacher where 

 they have a home. One cottage has already paid for itself by renting it 

 to the teacher at a very pominal sum. 



Coleman County has remodeled an old school building in one of the 

 rural districts and furnished it for the teacher, and the teacher is more than 

 pleased with it and looks after the school property. Twenty cottages are 

 used in Gomal County, rent free. 



In Medina County in two districts, the old schoolhouses have been re- 

 modeled and made into very neat and comfortable teachers' homes. The 

 county superintendent reports, "It is a splendid idea for the rural school 

 districts and the Yancy High School has two teachers' homes, one for the 

 superintendent's family, and one for the three lady assistants. Labaca 

 County reports 13 teachers' cottages that are furnished free to teachers and 

 their families, and that they are all located in German and Bohemian com- 

 munities in the rural school districts. Lubbock County reports two teachers' 

 homes for rural teachers. The county considers them quite a help to the 

 community that prefers a married man or woman to teach. They are given 

 rent free. 



Bosque County reports one that is a great success and regrets that they 

 do not have them all over the county, as the county superintendent feels 

 that they will solve a great many of the rural troubles. They will prepare 





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