Texas. 



TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



Teachers' Cottages Costing $500 to $750, Playground and School Garden, 

 Walker County, Texas 



to build more. Portland County reports one district with a five-acre plot of 

 ground, a one-room schoolhouse, a neat cottage of three rooms with neces- 

 sary garden, stable, etc., and that they have an excellent young married man 

 as teacher for $75 per month for eight months. His house rent and garden 

 is free. The superintendent likes it and wishes more districts would adopt 

 the plan. 



Wood County reports two cottages connected with secondary schools and 

 that the plan works well. Ben ton County reports one in a consolidated dis- 

 trict which was recently built. Falls County reports one that will be occu- 

 pied this year. Milam County reports four furnished, rent free to the teach- 

 ers and that the plan is more satisfactory. "The teachers are retained longer 

 and hence are more useful as citizens. We are encouraging our people to 

 erect more cottages." Victoria County reports one cottage not being occu- 

 pied because men with families can do better than teach school. "Four 

 cottages are used in Bell County by the teachers as residences. The plan 

 is a signal success. Teachers with families have charge of these schools. 

 The residences are an inducement and the best teachers are contracted for 

 these schools. I believe it a very profitable investment in any school where 

 more than one teacher is employed." Lee County was compelled to build a 

 teacher's cottage in one district on account of scarcity of houses. "School 

 funds were used for its construction. The people were agreed with the idea 

 as they understood a proportion of their tax money was to go for payments 

 on this residence as well as for the schoolhouse. The residence being a per- 

 manent fixture, enables us to secure the services of more capable men for 



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