. The consolidated rural school . significance. We lament the growth of city and town life, and yetby the rigid enforcement of state-wide compulsory attendance laws,and the transportation of children to large centres through consolida-tion of schools, we are quietly but most assuredly depopulating countrydistricts, drawing in the outsiders who might and should remain inthe rural districts. The policy which induces the railroad to run lines into opencountry as a preparation for settlement might well be followed bystate school systems through the establishment in remote districtsof excellent, we
. The consolidated rural school . significance. We lament the growth of city and town life, and yetby the rigid enforcement of state-wide compulsory attendance laws,and the transportation of children to large centres through consolida-tion of schools, we are quietly but most assuredly depopulating countrydistricts, drawing in the outsiders who might and should remain inthe rural districts. The policy which induces the railroad to run lines into opencountry as a preparation for settlement might well be followed bystate school systems through the establishment in remote districtsof excellent, well-equipped schools, these to be placed not accordingto the actual enrollment at the present time, but according to thegeneral economic possibilities of the section. Only in that way willpeople ambitious for the welfare of their children be induced to occupylands remote from live cities and villages. We have brought to themthe rural free delivery and the telephone, but have taken away ahighly-prized privilege, good local Students in costumes for a play which they produced in connection withtheir graduation exercises, Manila, P. I.
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