. The consolidated rural school . unit—union dis-trict, township, or single-school district. Several otherStates have county boards of education with limited func-tions; thirty-nine States have county supervision, three havecounty and supervisory district supervision. All othershave some kind of township or district supervision, but inmost States the supervision is not efficient and under pres-ent conditions cannot be. A county superintendent, hav-ing meagre education and no professional knowledge, electedor appointed for partisan political reasons, paid a salary sosmall that he must devote mo
. The consolidated rural school . unit—union dis-trict, township, or single-school district. Several otherStates have county boards of education with limited func-tions; thirty-nine States have county supervision, three havecounty and supervisory district supervision. All othershave some kind of township or district supervision, but inmost States the supervision is not efficient and under pres-ent conditions cannot be. A county superintendent, hav-ing meagre education and no professional knowledge, electedor appointed for partisan political reasons, paid a salary sosmall that he must devote most of his time to some othermeans of making a living, and dividing the remainder of histime between the routine business of his office and the super-vision of a hundred or more schools scattered over a terri-tory of three to five hundred square miles, this territorybeing traversed by bad roads during a good part of the THE AMERICAN RURAL SCHOOL 2^ One Reason Why Positions in the Country Schools ofFisher County are Not Desirable. Per cent Per cent of the teachers changed of the teachers did not positions in 1913-14^ change positions in 1913-14, IN A TOTAL OF SIXTY-TWO TEACHERS: 58 changed positions at beginning of last session,4 taught two years at same taught three years at same were new teachers in the county. Contrast this with the schools abroad where teachers seldom changemore than once in a lifetime. Does any other public or private business permit such a waste bythe constant changing of employees? If positions are to be made more attractive to the best teachersand if the school is to attain its highest efficiency, there must be a LONGER TENURE OF OFFICE FOR THE TEACHERS —From A Study of Rural Schools in Texas Bulletin of University of Texas. 28 THE CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOL time the schools are in session, cannot be expected to rendermuch help to the individual schools and teachers nominallyunder his charge. In some States in the South pro
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