The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . f activities are includedmany things : they have planted twelve hundred trees anda large number of shrubs ; they have planned and planted thelawns, and sown and harvested annually three or more acresof beans. They have laid out and improved a good-sizedathletic field and built the grand stand. In a similar waythe students have constructed a complete sewer system forthe school, including two septic tanks, and laying and fittingthe pipe. More recently, some of the young men h
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . f activities are includedmany things : they have planted twelve hundred trees anda large number of shrubs ; they have planned and planted thelawns, and sown and harvested annually three or more acresof beans. They have laid out and improved a good-sizedathletic field and built the grand stand. In a similar waythe students have constructed a complete sewer system forthe school, including two septic tanks, and laying and fittingthe pipe. More recently, some of the young men havebuilt a concrete swimming pool, one hundred by thirtyfeet in size. The water to this is supplied by an electricpower-pump and all the overflow is utilized for irrigationpurposes. Gonzales school has won high recognition in the statethrough its noted agriculture club. All high ranking con-testants of the past year spent three days at the Panama-Pacific Exposition and the University farm as the guestsof the University of California. The club winner was senton the annual trip to Washington, Boston, and other Eastern. The Gonzales, California, Rural High School This is a small but exceptionally efficient school. To educate and return to thehome community, annually, such a fine group of young people is sure to meanmuch for the future of our agricultural life. RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS 203 cities, at the expense of his home community, which hasalready learned that $250 expended in such a cause is moneywell spent. Jordan Consolidated Rural High School, Utah. — Thisis a type of rural high school unique to Utah. The peopleof the state live largely in irrigated valleys, in homes clus-tered about the village churches and schools. The unirri-gated sections are barren and have little organized , small one-teacher schools have never beennumerous in the state. At the present time there are lessthan forty such schools left. Graded schools of high charac-ter are found in all the o
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