236 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17, 1917, 
Tmk Township Syst?:m. —The mem- 
l)t‘rs of tho Mothers’ (’lub of Anlonia, N. 
Y., !ire (loin;,' all they can to tight the 
bill called ‘‘Township System for 
Schools,” which will conic before the Leg¬ 
islature in February. The consolidation 
of the rural s<-hools is not for tin* gootl of 
the children and comiuunity, is the <-ou- 
wnsus of (tpinion cxpres.sed at the club 
meetings. It is not for the best good of 
the country chihlren. It would make the 
center of interest in the city or village 
instead of in ('ach rural .school, which 
should be the lu ide of every district. 
TuANSPOUTATIO.N of (’lIII.I)KKX. —It 
would mean that children must be trans¬ 
town. The country school can be made 
homelike, atti’active, sanitary and alto¬ 
gether a most desirable place for the coun¬ 
try children. They can have hot lunch 
and a well-equipped playground. Yes, 
they can build their own apparatius, and 
b(‘ all the better for it. The boys and 
girls will get far more enjo 5 iuent out of 
it, .‘11111 will take care of the apparatus. 
They will take pride and interest in the 
school because they have helped make it 
what it i.s. I..et the bo.vs and girls help to 
make the rural schools better. Any 
teacher can intei-est them if she is inter¬ 
ested. This can be done in an.v rural 
school if people will only think so, before 
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ported in conveyances to some village 
school, a tiling fliat ever.v right-minded 
parent knows would be even dangerous to 
the welfare of the eliild. These conve.v- 
anees could not g<t to ever.v home, and 
nec(‘ssarily must start from some central 
plaee. and that would necessitate many 
children walking as far as or farther "than 
they do now to reach the rural school. 
Then they uyuild be obliged to get in and 
ride with the same clothing on that the.y 
had when wiilking .‘ind often they would 
hurry to be there on time. A little com¬ 
mon sense would tell yon the results. The 
children who now w.'ilk to school through 
the STU»w are not tlie ones who complain 
most of the cold wlien they rejieh the 
school. It is those children who ride who 
suffer, and often cry with cold hands and 
feet. What would it be when the little 
ones came to ride five or six miles on a 
cold day? It would he vcr.v hard on the 
poor, as the.v would he obliged to buy 
extra elotliing. which tlie children would 
not need if they walked to school. It is 
not such a hiirdshiji for teachers and chil¬ 
dren to walk to school in Winter as some 
people who coddle themselves up in heated 
houses think it is. 
Tiif Movfmknt Fhom The Farm.— 
Snell a system would tend to draw the hoy 
away from the farm to the city. If the 
ho.v is to he kept on the farm he should 
have a good rural school at home. Yes, 
a good rural school, why not? I..et the 
State give more aid to the rural schools. 
The cost of conveying children to other 
schools, if given to each school, would be 
quite a help. Even better than State aid, 
let the people wake up and take more in¬ 
terest in their home schools. It is up to 
the country people to see that there are 
good teachers in the rural schools. Let 
the country schools have teachers who 
love country life and country children. 
They should he country men and women 
who have been brought up in the coun¬ 
try. and who have attended the rural 
schools, and know the needs of such 
.schools. They should not be teachers who 
are afraid of a storm, and who think 
country life dreary and long to get away. 
The attendance at school depends upon 
the teacher and not the “truant officer.” 
If a teacher truly loves such teaching 
she will be willing to teach for a salary 
less than that offered by the city school. 
Making The Schoot..—T he “little red 
schoolhouse” is .iust what the teacher and 
the people make it. It can be an ideal 
place vithmit much expense. It can be 
better than any village school where chil¬ 
dren are herded together in a large school 
which has the children from the whole 
they lind themselves wishing we bad the 
rural school back with us when it is too 
late. 
The High Pchool.—I t is very doubt¬ 
ful if the buildiug of a high school in 
every town will really educate any more 
young people than are being now edu¬ 
cated. The high school is what every 
town might do well to have, but leave 
the younger children in the rural school. 
I.et them be in a room where there are all 
grades, and when they reach the high 
school they will stand as well as or bet¬ 
ter than those children who passed out 
of one grade into the next and did not 
have the opportunity to hear other grades 
recite as they now do in the rural school. 
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