Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . The rural schoo/ sysfern. .(£er4u* County~ /9/7-/9/S. £xc/ud<ngd/srr/crs mwng scnoo/s cu/th morethan S teachers.) 80 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT employing 293 teachers, by what logic can it be claimedthat the schools in third class districts in a county likeFergus, enrolling 5952 pupils and employing 268 teachersrequire 498 trustees to direct those teachers and schools?Would it not be fully as sensible to raise an army and ap-point three officers for every enlisted private and then expectefficiency and economy fro
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . The rural schoo/ sysfern. .(£er4u* County~ /9/7-/9/S. £xc/ud<ngd/srr/crs mwng scnoo/s cu/th morethan S teachers.) 80 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT employing 293 teachers, by what logic can it be claimedthat the schools in third class districts in a county likeFergus, enrolling 5952 pupils and employing 268 teachersrequire 498 trustees to direct those teachers and schools?Would it not be fully as sensible to raise an army and ap-point three officers for every enlisted private and then expectefficiency and economy from that army by making each groupof three officers entirely independent of every other groupand making all officers of equal rank and power?—Arp,Rural Education. In the third class districts there are 1966 clerks and 5898trustees managing the affairs of 2370 schools and exercisingdirect control of 2672 teachers. Twenty states designate the county as the unit foradministration of schools, the same as for the administrationof road improvement and other public The finest rural school house in Gallatin county. in many parts of Hitstate artistic and substantial rural sclioollioiises are licinpr built. The Results of District AdministrationBuildings Modern school houses that are comfortable, sanitary, welllighted and attractive are rapidly taking the place of theold box-car type of building in many sections of the the law was passed requiring schoolhouse plans to beinspected by the State Board of Health, probably greaterstrides have been made in the improvement of the school SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 81 plant than in any other phase of educational work. ProfessorW. R. Plew of the State College of Agriculture, the consult-ing architect of the State Board of Health, has drawn upseveral plans of modern rural schoolhouses, blue prints andspecifications for which are furnished by the State Depart-ment of Health and State Department of Public
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