Consolidated rural schools . s. Having the power to regulate the size and dimensions of school dis-tricts, Mr. Hester divided the county into thirty-eight districts. Usually acounty has about 135 school districts. Distribute Wealth. Some of the Rogers County school districts bear about the same rela-tionship in shape and size as the states of Texas and Rhode Island. In 28 each case the district has been laid off, with topography and wealth as thebasis for division. One of the fundamental ideas was to distribute the cor-poration wealth of the county as evenly among afl districts as
Consolidated rural schools . s. Having the power to regulate the size and dimensions of school dis-tricts, Mr. Hester divided the county into thirty-eight districts. Usually acounty has about 135 school districts. Distribute Wealth. Some of the Rogers County school districts bear about the same rela-tionship in shape and size as the states of Texas and Rhode Island. In 28 each case the district has been laid off, with topography and wealth as thebasis for division. One of the fundamental ideas was to distribute the cor-poration wealth of the county as evenly among afl districts as the way the plan worked out in practice was that Hester drew atiimaginary line around a collection of oil companies whose taxable wealthshould flow into the coffers of the school treasury, and then extended hisimaginary line in any direction which presented the least resistance. If hefound the line tending to cross an unbridged stream, he drew it in andstarted downstream. That was cheaper than building a bridge, and safer. CHELSEA CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL,Rogers County, Oklahoma. than swimming school children across swollen streams in time of highwater. Having established district lines, the next step was to secure the build-ings. In the last two years the county has been enriched by the addition ofabout twenty-five new buildings. Of this number eighteen have high-school courses, and others will follow as fast as pupils have advanced farenough to require it. This system of consolidation groups itself about three separate plans: 1. The transportation plan. 2. The non-transportation plan. 3. The wing plan. Superintendent Hester declares that many counties of the State furnishsuperior topographical facilities and could carry consolidation to evengreater success than has Rogers, while it is not uncommon to find thewealth more evenly distributed. He says the east side of the State is bet- 29 ter off for having made the effort to consolidate and that a good nucleusfor a future highly d
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