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Some Farm Opinion on the 
School Bill 
(Continued from -page 177) 
lost as far as rural education goes.— Man- 
son L. Smith, Cortland County, N. Y. 
* * * 
From a Teacher 
T AM interested in the proposed legisla- 
t tion affecting rural schools. During 
my early teaching experience I taught in 
the so-called rural school, that is, the 
one-teacher school. At present I am a 
teacher in an elementary grade of a village 
school maintaining an academic depart¬ 
ment. I, therefore, feel that I am qualified 
to speak with a considerable degree of 
accuracy as to conditions as they exist in 
the rural schools of this State. 
From the information which I have in 
relation to the Rural School Bill which 
was introduced in the State legislature 
last year, I would say that in my opinion, 
if this proposed legislation be enacted, 
the rural school system of the State will 
be greatly strengthened and improved 
thereby. 
It does seem to me that it is desirable' 
that tjie school districts be made largei 
for taxation and administration purposes. 
I. very much like the plan as proposed 
for equalizing taxation—equalization by 
local merger of school districts and State 
aid which will be given to the com¬ 
munity districts which have the higher 
rates of local taxation. 
It seems to me that with the establish¬ 
ment of the community districts, it will 
give the supervisory officers a better op¬ 
portunity to confer with the Boards of Edu¬ 
cation which have charge of the schools 
in the several community districts. It 
also seems to me tha!t the affairs of the 
community districts could be conducted 
in a more businesslike way under the 
administration of Boards of Education 
, than under the present system. 
' I am impressed with the provision that 
consolidation of schools may not he made 
without the desire or vote of the inhabitants 
of the school district to be affected. I am 
also impressed with the idea of each, 
community having direct representation 
on the Board of Education of the com¬ 
munity district. Under the so-called 
Township Law, this arrangement did not 
obtain, and I am informed that it caused 
some dissension in some communities,— 
many of the electors of these communities 
claiming they did not have representa¬ 
tion on the Board. 
I believe by changing our rural school 
system as proposed, that more boys and 
girls of high school age residing in the 
open country will be encouraged and 
assisted to enter the high school, which 
should appeal to country folk in general. 
In a recent article published by our 
District Superintendent of Schools in a 
School Bulletin published in connection 
with a local vilfage paper, I noticed a 
statistical item which stated that since 
the beginning of the school year 1921 to 
November, 1923, eighty-four working 
papers had been issued by the Superin¬ 
tendent to boys and girls between the 
ages of fourteen and sixteen; of this num¬ 
ber three had been issued to boys and 
' girls residing in the village where I am 
teaching; eleven to boys and girls residing 
in a neighboring high school district, and 
seventy boys and girls living in the rural 
districts. It was indicated that most of 
these boys and girls were released from 
school so that they might be employed 
on the farms. I am under the impression 
that several reasons must have induced 
the boys and girls to leave the schools, 
possibly one being scarcity of help in the 
farming districts, but probably more left 
school for the reason that they felt they 
were too “big” to remain in the rural 
school any longer, and not being qualified 
for admission to the academic depart¬ 
ment of a village school, failed to attend 
the same, and, too, probably a goodly 
number of these boys and girls, being 
qualified for academic instruction but 
living a considerable distance from a high 
school, could not make it convenient to 
attend on account of the extra financial 
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