TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



Virginia. 



Five county superintendents report it very difficult to secure good board- 

 ing places in their county. Lunenburg County is impressed with the plan 

 and is putting forth an effort to build some this coming year. Fluvauna 

 County regards the suggestion as a good one. Henrico County thinks the 

 time will soon arrive when we will find it absolutely necessary to have it. An 

 agricultural high school near Appomatox furnishes the teacher in charge 

 with a home. Albemarle County reports it is almost impossible to secure 

 decent boarding places for teachers in some instances. Spottsylvania and 

 Stafford state that teachers' cottages are well worth considering when the 

 difficulty of securing good board is so great. In Wise County, in the min- 

 ing town of Sutherland, where it w.as hard to get board for teachers, they 

 fitted up a room on the second floor so that the two teachers could board 

 themselves and stay in the building. Williamsburg has plans on foot for a 

 school cottage to be used by the colored teachers for teaching housekeeping, 

 cooking, etc., as well as a home for these teachers. (U. S. Bureau of Edu- 

 cation.) 



Washington. 



Washington is yet far in the lead in the number of teachers' cottages. 

 More than 100 cottages have been built and they are popular everywhere. 

 (Pictures of four cottages are reproduced on Page 55.) 



The provisions of the Washington law on this subject are as follows : 



COMMUNITY PURPOSES BUILDINGS. 



"460. Wider Use of School Buildings Erection of Teachers' Cottages 

 That school boards in each district of the second-class and third-class may 

 provide for the free, comfortable and convenient use of the school property 

 to promote and facilitate frequent meetings and association of the people in 

 discussion, study, improvement, recreation and other community purposes, 

 and may acquire, assemble and house material for the dissemination of in- 

 formation of use and interest to the farm, the home and the community, and 

 facilities for experiment and study, especially in matters pertaining to the 

 growing of crops, the improvement and handling of live stock, the market- 

 ing of farm products, the planning and construction of farm buildings, the 

 subjects of household economies, home industries, good roads, and commun- 

 ity vocations and industries; and may call meetings for the consideration 

 and discussion of any such matters, employ a special supervisor, or leader, 

 if need be, and provide suitable dwellings and accommodations for teachers, 

 supervisors and necessary assistants. 



461. Districts May Erect Communal Assembly Place That each school 

 district of the second- or third-class, by itself or in combination with any 

 other district or districts, shall have power, when in the judgment of the 

 school board it shall be deemed expedient, to reconstruct, remodel, or build 

 schoolhouses, and to erect, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire other im- 

 provements and real and personal property, and establish a communal assem- 

 bly place and appurtenances, and supply the same with suitable and con- 

 venient furnishings and facilities for the uses mentioned in section 1 of this 

 act. 



462. Commission to Pass Upon Plan That plans of any district or com- 

 bination of districts for the carrying out of the powers granted by this act 

 shall be submitted to and approved by the board of supervisors composed of 

 seven members, as follows : The State Superintendent of Public Instruction : 

 the head of the extension department of Washington State College ; the head 

 of the extension department of the University of Washington ; the county 

 superintendent of schools of the county in which such facilities are pro- 

 posed to be located; these four to choose a fifth member from such county, 

 and a sixth and seventh member, one of whom shall be a \voman, from the 

 district or districts concerned." 



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