. The consolidated rural school . s well as for chargingthe storage batteries of the auto-busses used in transporta-tion. It is still further utilized as laboratory equipment inthe study of electricity and auto repair. Two hundred and eight children enrolled the first year,30 of these being in the new high school. About 350 school children now live in the district, andit is estimated that over 300 of these will be in school nextyear with about 50 of the number in the high school. Last year 180 children were transported to and fromschool in five large Studebaker busses, a few riding 14 mileseac
. The consolidated rural school . s well as for chargingthe storage batteries of the auto-busses used in transporta-tion. It is still further utilized as laboratory equipment inthe study of electricity and auto repair. Two hundred and eight children enrolled the first year,30 of these being in the new high school. About 350 school children now live in the district, andit is estimated that over 300 of these will be in school nextyear with about 50 of the number in the high school. Last year 180 children were transported to and fromschool in five large Studebaker busses, a few riding 14 mileseach way. Three more busses of the same kind have beenpurchased, and next year at least 300 children will be trans-ported. METHODS AND FACTS OF CONSOLIDATION 277 All of the nine teachers, each of whom has had eithercollege or normal training, are nicely and comfortably pro-vided for in the two large new teacherages. No moreitinerant teachers, coming into the district Monday morn-ing and returning to some town early Friday afternoon,. Basement Plan of Sargent Consolidated School. will be tolerated in this district. They will be expectedto live in the district and to identify themselves with thecommunity life therein. Moreover, each teacher will beemployed because of special preparation and fitness forwork in a rural school and rural community. The superin-tendent is a young man with a vision and has already earneda reputation as a community builder. This school has also been approved for federal aid inhome economics under the Smith-Hughes Act. Community Co-Operation.—The people of this remarka-ble district have not been content in just improving theirschool, even though that improvement far surpasses any
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