Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . all rural problems, a backward sectarian people formerly insisted upon clinging to all their oldways. This teacher of leadership and vision has been amongthem two years, and they now see things differently. Neitherof these girls has wished her identity revealed but they areboth real country teachers and their stories are true. How Miss Mary Improved Her Country School During the year 1909-10 many strange stories were afloat c
Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . all rural problems, a backward sectarian people formerly insisted upon clinging to all their oldways. This teacher of leadership and vision has been amongthem two years, and they now see things differently. Neitherof these girls has wished her identity revealed but they areboth real country teachers and their stories are true. How Miss Mary Improved Her Country School During the year 1909-10 many strange stories were afloat concern-ing the condition of affairs in a certain district known as Cedar Oak,For two years or more the school had been run with a loose this time Miss Mary decided to apply for the school. As shecame fairly well recommended, the directors hired her for nine months LEADERSHIP OF THE COUNTRY TEACHER 197 at forty-five dollars per month. Miss Mary had taken a course incountry school economy and felt that here was a chance to put intopractice some of the ideas thus several visits to the school and community she found things. Cedar Oak School, the Scene of Miss Marys Endeavors fully as bad as they had been pictured to her. The building itselfshowed decided neglect. The walls that once were white were coveredwith dirt and grime. Shelves and desks were dirty and disfigured bypenciled pictures and knife cuts. One door was nearly kicked to yard was rough and uneven. The stove-wood was scattered aboutthe yard and the outbuildings faced each other. Truly there was workto be done. For several weeks she busied herself with preparations for the comingterm. Finding no record whatever of the classification of the pupils,she procured the daily register, learned the names and ages of thechildren, and grouped them into classes according to their ages. Muchof this, of course, had to be changed, but for the time it served the pur-pose. Besides this she prepared
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