. The consolidated rural school . to the consolidated ruralschool. The matter has been dealt with briefly in ChapterIX. The accompanying floor plan is based on these prin-ciples, and would, if ably followed and adopted, to a largeextent bring about the following advantages and condi-tions: I. Greater safety from fire and panic is provided than inbuildings with two or more stories and basements. Inthe country, without skilled fire-fighting agencies close athand, this precaution is fundamental. All walls and floorscan easily be made fireproof. No space is left for woodconstruction or combustible
. The consolidated rural school . to the consolidated ruralschool. The matter has been dealt with briefly in ChapterIX. The accompanying floor plan is based on these prin-ciples, and would, if ably followed and adopted, to a largeextent bring about the following advantages and condi-tions: I. Greater safety from fire and panic is provided than inbuildings with two or more stories and basements. Inthe country, without skilled fire-fighting agencies close athand, this precaution is fundamental. All walls and floorscan easily be made fireproof. No space is left for woodconstruction or combustibles below the children, since thereis no basement, and the main floors may be made of con-crete on a cinder or other filling. In classrooms this con-crete floor may by proper prearrangements be coveredwith ordinary wooden flooring. Each classroom has exitsdirectly to the playground {a) through a door on the leftof the pupils as seated, {h) through the door and corridorinto the court on the right, or (c) out of the windows scarcely. CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOLBl/tLCINS *»» COMMURnT CEKTER thf Louis W ?)C $;>ittcX, SO7 5o8 THE CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOL four feet above the ground on the left. Such a sufficiencyof exits would meet the most stringent fire regulations ofcities, and would serve several other functions short jump from the windows should be without in-jurious effects to most country children, especially whereeffective gymnasium training has contributed to agility,hardihood, and courage in jumping such a slight exits from the assembly wing can also easily beprovided, opening into the courts on either side. The heating plant would be in a separate fireproofroom at the rear of the building, or separated, as in thewriters floor plan presented later. There is no good reason why most such schools shouldnot be built almost entirely of concrete. Farm peopleto-day need constant building object-lessons in the use ofthis i
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