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(c) the extension of the privilege of free secondary in- 

 struction to pupils in schools not giving such in- 

 struction, through the payment of tuition and 

 transportation by the township. 



Second group 



1. Inequalities in the qualification of publicly employed 

 teachers are human considerations largely not subject to 

 legal control. 



However, there is at present a very noticeable difference in the 

 preparation by the state of teachers for ungraded rural schools 

 and graded urban schools. This condition is not due to defec- 

 tive statutes. It is due largely to an interpretation of the 

 statutes which has permitted a concentration of the state's ap- 

 propriations for teacher training, more than five-thirteenths of 

 which has been paid by rural ungraded districts, upon the 

 preparation of teachers for graded urban schools. 



2. This condition has come into public attention and in recent 

 years a redirection of part of the normal school activities to the 

 service of the ungraded rural schools has begun in a small way 

 to make good to these schools the accumulated loss of the years. 

 Further attempts have been made to refund the rural communi- 

 ties that which has been taken from them by the state without 

 practically any direct return, by the remitting of tuition in the 

 normal schools to teachers preparing for country service and by 

 the institution of the county normal training classes, largely sup- 

 ported by the state, for rural teachers. 



REHABILITATING THE RURAL SCHOOL 1 



L. L. BERNARD 



IT is the contention of the present writer that the heart of the 

 problem of functionalizing the rural school is the question of 

 the curriculum. Therefore, in the following brief outline of 

 changes most urgently needed to be wrought in the general or- 

 ganization of the rural school this change is placed first, 



i Adapted from "School and Society," Vol. IV, Xo. 100, p. 810-16, Nov. 

 25, 1916. 



