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The Big Problem of Rural Schools 
A Young Man on Rural Schools 
I have been reading the “Notes on 
Rural Schools,” page 001, which have 
interested me very much. I am only a 
lad of 16, but I have lost my father, who 
died March 17, and have the care of a 
100-acre farm with my mother. 1 have 
been through a rural school, and have 
spent nearly two years at high school, 
and I think we were as well prepared for 
high school as those who went through 
the grades in a village school. G. ,T. R. 
asks: “Shall wo have a town school?” 
No. What would it mean for this dis¬ 
trict, in which I live, to get a safe man 
to take the present, school *f 14 pupils. 
444 miles night, and morning to school? 
And yet one or two who have no children 
cry out: “Throw up the district and 
send the scholars to town, and save 
taxes.” But where? The taxes would 
be higher to accommodate the increased 
attendance and pay the man who would 
take them. Would we save? No. 
In the letter signed “Teacher” it is 
right about the superintendents. When 
the cry came up about sanitary toilets, 
my father fought it, not because he didn’t 
want it, but because they would not be 
a success, and would be a great expense, 
and he raised taxes enough to pay the 
teacher without public money; hut the 
next year the district got the toilets and 
they won’t work, give off a bad odor and. 
are a great expense. The Taw is not 
compulsory, and now the people of the 
district are sorry they put in the toilets. 
The trouble seems to me that the 
Department of Education at Albany is 
trying to run rural schools on city school 
plans. Cut out physical training; it is 
all right, but in rural schools the major¬ 
ity of pupils have exercise enough with¬ 
out the training, though it helps in pos¬ 
ture some. 
I do not agree with Elizabeth ITollett. 
on lack of interest of parents. There are 
a few parents who do not want their chil¬ 
dren to go to school, but some lack inter¬ 
est because they don’t have money enough 
hardly to break even. Some of the books 
are stories and fables which are not, much 
good to children beginning school, but 
they help a little. The books that con¬ 
tain truth are the best. 
I saw a piece in a paper about giving 
a teacher a pension after teaching 60 
years of about $4 a day. It is all right 
to give them a pension, but that is too 
much. They don’t give a fanner a pen¬ 
sion, and he works harder and worries 
as much or more than a teacher. Give 
some to the soldiers who fought over¬ 
seas. 
I agree with E., let the slogan be keep 
the schools out of politics and give us 
home rule. ,t a r 
New York. * ' 
Notes on the Rural School 
Our wish regarding the rural school is 
to have one in which the children receive 
thorough instruction in the fundamentals, 
particularly arithmetic and English, and' 
arc fully prepared to enter first year high 
school. At present, through lack of disci¬ 
pline, disorderly conduct and vile, pro¬ 
fane language are very great hindrances 
to a good school. mrs. j. d. g. 
New York. 
As I have been following up the school 
question, I am a I last compelled to ex¬ 
press m.v views briefly. Who will doubt 
the possibility of boys and girls, or men 
and women, as the case requires, being 
found_ in every district who have the 
capability and willingness to teach the 
9&*<wt at home in their own district, 
where they know and are known, where 
they are not at so large expense, hence 
can serve their district at smaller cost 
and with satisfaction. Out out this red- 
tape machine at Albany for which pro¬ 
perty owners must pay, with. - so often, 
no great results. I know from observa¬ 
tion better teachers with better results 
can be obtained at less cost. Surely much 
money is being wasted, with little re¬ 
sults. Every district has talent enough 
to run its own school without the ma¬ 
chine which forces failure of it now. 
A Rural Teacher Speaks Up 
On page 242 is an article in regard to 
the hot-lunch proposition and other mat¬ 
ters of interest in rural schools. I can¬ 
not help feeling that for some reason 
“M.” has an entirely wrong idea of the 
true state of affairs in most rural schools. 
I have been teaching in rural schools for 
a number of years. At first we did not 
have hot lunch at noon. I am now at 
my third year Avhere hot lunch has been 
served in the school. Noav I would not 
think of teaching in a school where the 
children bolted down half-frozen lunches 
in about, three minutes, then race out for 
what “M.” terms their romp in the open 
air. This romp usually ended, in severe 
disagreements, and sometimes fights be¬ 
cause the half-eaten cold 'lunch was caus¬ 
ing queer feelings in the children’s stom¬ 
achs. 
“M.” thinks that too much, time is 
taken from school work to’ prepare 
lunches. It does not take one-thkd of 
the school time, as stated by “M.” In 
m.v school the part that is done in schorl 
takes about 15 minutes. Very often the 
work is done during the morning recess. 
Then the food is put over the oil stove or 
in the oven. The watching part of the 
cooking need not require a great deal of 
time, as a glance now and then is all that 
is necessary to see that all is well. The 
serving and dish-washing is all done at 
the noon hour. 
I know of several schools where hot 
lunches arc carried on that have eight 
grades, and manage by persistent efforts 
op the teachers’ part and hearty co-opera¬ 
tion from the scholars to hear all classes 
every day, and not English and geography 
twice a week, as inferred by “M.” 
Everyone has to eat as long as they 
live, so why isn’t it just as essential to 
know how to cook and serve food prop¬ 
erly, to know food values, to know how 
and what to buy, as it is to be able to do 
pages of cube root, which is of no prac¬ 
tical value? The location of Putosersk, 
Zacatecas and Tamalpais and many other 
places after one is out of school two 
years will be looked up in an atlas, if in 
the one chance out of a hundred there is 
occasion to use them. 
We are living in a practical age. I 
find there are splendid problems in the 
materials we use for lunches; plenty of 
material for. English work in explaining 
how different, dishes are made. There is 
also a chance to correlate the lunch work 
with drawing. I do not feel that time is 
wasted by having lunches. On the con¬ 
trary, wp are given a new source of ma¬ 
terial first hand. 
Children are not served “smatterings 
of cocoa” made with boiled milk. Cor¬ 
nell sends carefully prepared recipes, and 
when they are followed out, as they are 
in many schools, the children get some 
food that helps balance up the lunches 
brought from home. 
Do not think I am criticising the home 
lunches, as they are good in most cases. 
However, some hot food is needed as 
well. 
“M.” refers to children of previous 
times being more sturdy and healthy. I 
would suggest that she look up some re¬ 
cent statistics on the matter. The $5 
that the teacher receives for the 514-honr 
day seems to trouble some people a great 
deal. If they wish to be absolutely cor¬ 
rect about the matter, they should add 
about three or more hours to the day. 
“M.” speaks of too much time on fads 
and fancies. Project work and hot 
lunches are not* fads. They are meeting 
the need of some children who cannot 
grasp regular lessons through hooks. Per¬ 
haps the little help given in school will 
make them better citizens by starting 
them on the way of doing useful work. 
Last of all, I cannot understand why 
the teacher is expected to be the general 
information bureau for the district.. I 
think she should be forgiven even if she 
has forgotten some of her high school 
subjects. 
I am not. going to criticize rural dis¬ 
tricts, because I know there are some 
that, co-operate with their teachers. How¬ 
ever, I would suggest that people go to 
the schools, be interested in new work, 
help where they can, and please be sure 
they understand before they start in 
criticizing. ir. 
•J. K. M. 
The rural school is all right as it ex¬ 
ists, and is doing good work as it is, and 
it should not be consolidated without con¬ 
sent of district. If the rural districts are 
denied a school where the children can 
walk to and from it there will be more 
illiteracy and ignorance than there now 
exists. Our districts will not make prog¬ 
ress, there will be more abandoned farms, 
shortage of labor and a general deprecia- - 
tion of farm property. Give us our rural 
schools as they are, and cut out physical 
training and red tape. Don’t overload 
the teacher; we want practical knowledge 
taught. Let the superintendent place the 
teachers and counsel with trustees of dis¬ 
trict. 
Give the superintendent power to ex¬ 
amine and select teachers for rural 
schools when there is a shortage of 
teachers otherwise qualified to teach. Let 
us keep within reasonable bounds and 
let there be a limit to expenditures for 
educational purposes. F. 
New York. 
Wages of Rural Teachers 
Much has been said about the wages 
of rural school teachers. Now the teach¬ 
ers have to contribute 4 per cent, of their 
wages (commencing August 1) to the 
pension fund, instead of 1 per cent as 
heretofore. Then they are instructed to 
dress so that they will look prosperous, 
which means a heavy expenditure these 
days. No old-fashioned clothes or dowdy 
mended ones. Then board at $9 to .$10.50 
per week, washing extra, is demanded. 
Some communities require a teacher from 
a distance, thinking that a stranger will 
control the school better. (IIow about 
home training?! If a teacher gets a 
school by means of an agency 5 per cent 
is needed for their trouble. The innum¬ 
erable demands for socials, parties, Red 
Cross, charities, soap orders, etc. ; then 
she must take one or two educational 
magazines, a Summer trip to freshen up 
for the next year’s work, and, besides, 
lay up a portion for the rainy day. 
teacher. 
July 16, 1921 
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CIDER MILLS BoVil'' PHELPS, N.Y*. 
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Strawberry Flants 
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Bus. Red Skin POTATO SEED, fine stock. $1 
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2 MILLIONS Sweet Potato, Tomato. Cabbage, Cauliflower, 
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PEACH TREE BORERS 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 16, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Double-crossed Corn for High Yielding 
Commencement and Semi-Centennial of 
Massachusetts Agricultural College—Part 
jj. 922 
A Talk About Weed Killers. 923 
Seeding to Grass in Corn. 923 
Destroying Crab Grass. 924 
Destroying Wild Honeysuckle. 925 
Hope Farm Notes. 930 
Potato Meeting on Long Island. 933 
Bean Crop Coming Back. 933 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Cocoanut Oil and Adulterated Milk. 923 
Home Use of Wool. 927 
Southern States and Dairying. 933 
Silage Fails to Keep. 936 
Dairy Ration; Fencing Pasture. 936 
Buttermilk for Sow. 936 
Milk with Undesirable Flavor. 936 
Silage from Sweet Clover. 936 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 937 
The Bull and the Treadmill. 939 
Desirable HenhouSte and Hoghouse. 939 
Ill-flavored Butter; Ailing Hens. 940 
Poor Flavor in Butter. 940 
Quick-souring Milk . 940 
THE HENYARD 
A Discussion of Henhouses. 939 
Blind Hens . 939 
Worms in Fowls. 939 
Choice of Market Breed.940 
A Threefold Egg. 941 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 924 
Killing Squash Bugs. 924 
The Farm Flower Garden. 925 
The Blowers Blackberry.925 
Growth of Asparagus Stalks. 931 
A Crop of Catnip. 931 
Propagating Lilac; Rhubarb from Seed. 931 
Bull’s Head or Water Chestnut. 931 
Summer Pruning of Grapevines. 931 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 934 
Tar and Feathers. 934 
The Rural Patterns. S34 
Loganberries in Many Ways. 934 
Good Things from Biscuit Dough. 934 
Some Points in Home Nursing. 934 
French Mustard . 934 
A Quaint Hooked Rug. 934 
Winter Relishes . 934 
Potato Stew . 934 
Batter Cakes . 934 
Doughnuts . 934 
Onion Loaf . 934 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Rights of Road Contractors. 923 
Events of the Week. 924 
The Cluster. Honey or Buckwheat Fly. 925 
An Agricultural Ink. 925 
A Primer of Economics. 927 
Probate of Will. 930 
Fence Set Off Line. 930 
Clouded Land Title. 930 
Rights in Trees and Building on Parents’ 
Property . 930 
Rights of Monthly Tenant. 930 
Making Beet Syrup . 933 
Henhouse Walls of Hollow Tile. 938 
Frame House Covered with Concrete. 938 
Repairing Leaky Tank. 938 
Tractor on Potato Planter. 938 
Trouble with Gas Engine. 938 
Water Supply for House. 938 
Power from Automobile Motor. 938 
Waterproofing for Cistern. 938 
Crack Filler for Veranda. 938 
Publisher’s Desk . 942 
The Law of Adoption. 942 
