. Rural centralized, graded and model schools . itions for success are present. County Plan It is only a question of time until a majority of the rural dis-tricts in the state will desire to organize consolidated or union gradeddistricts. Therefore, a county-wide plan or suggestion for eachcounty should be carefully worked out in advance by the countysuperintendent and school officers association in order that all districtsmay be protected. It is a mistake for a superintendent to sit idly byand allow certain groups of districts to organize as consolidated dis-tricts, leaving some of the adjace
. Rural centralized, graded and model schools . itions for success are present. County Plan It is only a question of time until a majority of the rural dis-tricts in the state will desire to organize consolidated or union gradeddistricts. Therefore, a county-wide plan or suggestion for eachcounty should be carefully worked out in advance by the countysuperintendent and school officers association in order that all districtsmay be protected. It is a mistake for a superintendent to sit idly byand allow certain groups of districts to organize as consolidated dis-tricts, leaving some of the adjacent districts situated so that they cannever consolidate. A definite plan or program should be mapped outfor every county in the state before reorganization proceeds further,and an effort should be made to educate the people of the county toan appreciation of the reason and justice of the plan. How to Organize After making sure that the interests of no districts will be ad-versely affected by the organization of the proposed consolidated dis-. Wainwrig-ht Consolidated School, Muskogee County(31) trict and that it will not interfere with the county program, the peopleare then ready to organize the district. In the first place a preliminary survey should be made to de-termine the resources of the districts which it is proposed to con-solidate. The valuation and area should be inquired into for thepurpose of ascertaining whether or not the legal requirements maybe met and, also, whether or not the valuation is sufficient for theneeds of such a school as it is desired to establish and whether or notthe area is greater than practicable in that section of the state. It isnot recommended that a district be formed with only $200,000 valua-tion unless the roads are exceptionally good and the area somewherenear the minimum required. Such communities should organize uniongraded schools instead of consolidated schools. Only in exceptionalcases and under the most favorable of conditions shou
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