. Consolidation of country schools . send his children to the districtschool now has the pleasure of seeing them securing educationthat could be provided by the county. One of the strongest advocates ofthe system was a man who lived in sight of one of the original schoolhouses which later was abandoned. He said, I was utterly opposed tothe system. I signed a petition against it and circulated it with fact, I went to Painesville and made application for an injunction torestrain the township trustees from moving the old school house, butnow I would not go back to the old way f
. Consolidation of country schools . send his children to the districtschool now has the pleasure of seeing them securing educationthat could be provided by the county. One of the strongest advocates ofthe system was a man who lived in sight of one of the original schoolhouses which later was abandoned. He said, I was utterly opposed tothe system. I signed a petition against it and circulated it with fact, I went to Painesville and made application for an injunction torestrain the township trustees from moving the old school house, butnow I would not go back to the old way for anything. This manhas two children in school at the present time. Another man who for-merly voted against the measure, said You could not hire me to goback to the old system. I strongly opposed it but am now sending fourchildren to school, and as I often remark to my wife, is it not nice thatour children are not but in the storm today. This man said to me thatthe finest feature of the system is the transportation of the Diagram of Gustavus Township, Trumbull County, Ohio,Showing Transportation Routes. 28 Hon. C. G. Williams, a prominent farmer of Gustavus township, aworker in Ohio farmers institutes and a frequent contributor to the agri-cultural papers, says in the Ohio Farmer, in answer to queries: Wepay our drivers from $ to $ per day according to the length ofroute. Our average is $ In adjoining townships, all of whichare centralized, I think the cost is a little more, perhaps $ per routes are from two and one-half to five miles. This is very cheap,but the facts remain that there are always more bidders than routes. Yousee the small farmer can make the trip in about four hours, and a goodpart of the year he has nothing else to do, and nothing perhaps for theteam to do. It is so much extra money. In answer to the question, isit advisable to have more than one central school, he says: That is alocal consideration, but with townships, suc
Size: 1530px × 1633px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectschools, bookyear1904
