. The consolidated rural school . cottage for Arizona, Florida,California, Missouri, Maine, and Montana should be thesame. A good plan for one region might be a poor one foranother. Of course, the home must be for a schoolmanspurpose as well as for a farm-home example. Where a farmis provided the home can be a real farmhouse. Otherwisenumerous compromises must be made between adaptationto school and farm uses. The home-economics depart-ment of the school must always find the cottage a goodplace for demonstration of modern domestic science andart. Any one who has seen farmers wives tramp throug
. The consolidated rural school . cottage for Arizona, Florida,California, Missouri, Maine, and Montana should be thesame. A good plan for one region might be a poor one foranother. Of course, the home must be for a schoolmanspurpose as well as for a farm-home example. Where a farmis provided the home can be a real farmhouse. Otherwisenumerous compromises must be made between adaptationto school and farm uses. The home-economics depart-ment of the school must always find the cottage a goodplace for demonstration of modern domestic science andart. Any one who has seen farmers wives tramp throughsuch a school home on opening day by the hour and anyone who has seen the daily demonstrations of modernplanning, decoration, and home-management devices inthese schools, either established independently or partiallyendowed by the General Education Board, will realize theimportant function of the school-farm home as a demon- THE TEACHERAGE 199 stration and domestic experiment station. The home isjustified on these grounds Basement Plan ILm Fios-fwfiooo Plan Artistic home for the progressive farmer. Teacherages lead to such homesby the force of example 5. Full-Year Service.—The home helps to make possibleyear-round service. Former chapters have emphasized the 200 THE CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOL desirability of service for twelve instead of from three toten months a year. Home projects must be carried outlargely in the summer, a costly school plant requires carein summer as in winter, the people need their meetings andrecreation at the school centre as in winter. The principalshould be at work on his own school-farm and should be inintimate connection with the work of the county agent, theteacher of agriculture, the experiment-station workers, andother experts on farm problems. Moreover, teachers haveto eat and meet the high cost of living just as other peopledo in summer as well as in winter. When we get year-round workers and year-round salaries we may hope to getinto
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