. Government and politics in Virginia . school near you, are the people talking of building one?Who is your county or city superintendent? What are the duties of theschool board? Do you know any of its members? 6. Is your school a graded or an imgraded school? Have any schoolsin your county been consolidated? How are the pupils brought to theschool? Why were the schools consolidated? If you are a pupil in aconsolidated school, what are some of the advantages you now enjoywhich you did not have before? 7. Who builds and pays for the support of public schools? Why doesthe government do this? Sup
. Government and politics in Virginia . school near you, are the people talking of building one?Who is your county or city superintendent? What are the duties of theschool board? Do you know any of its members? 6. Is your school a graded or an imgraded school? Have any schoolsin your county been consolidated? How are the pupils brought to theschool? Why were the schools consolidated? If you are a pupil in aconsolidated school, what are some of the advantages you now enjoywhich you did not have before? 7. Who builds and pays for the support of public schools? Why doesthe government do this? Suppose the government did not provide schools,are there not many children who would be deprived of an education? 8. In what ways does the family assist in education? What duty inthis respect do parents owe their children? What duty in this respect doyou as pupils owe to yourselves, your families, and your community? 9. Is your schoolhouse used for any community purpose after schoolhours? Can you think of any purpose it could be used for?. A RURAL SCHOOL BASE BALL TEAM CHAPTER VIIITHE ROADS, STREETS, AND PARKS OF THE PEOPLE THE NECESSITY FOR GOOD ROADS. In 1790, whenThomas Jefferson arrived in New York to take his position asSecretary of State under the newly formed government of theUnited States, he wrote as follows to a friend whom he hadleft in Virginia: I arrived here on the 21st inst., after aslaborious a journey of a fortnight as I ever went through;resting only one day at Alexandria, and another day at Balti-more. I found my carriage and horses at Alexandria, but asnow eighteen inches deep falling the same night, I saw theimpossibility of getting on in my carriage, so I left it there, tobe sent to me by water, and had my horses led on to thisplace [New York], taking my passage in the stage, howeverrelieving myself a little sometimes by mounting my roads through the whole way were so bad that we couldnever get more than 3 miles an hour, sometimes not morethan 2, an
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