. Rural centralized, graded and model schools . istrict in the beginning are frequently loudest intheir praise of its benefits. In making a personal inspection the com-mittee should visit the school and compare the work being done withthe work usually done in the one-room rural schools. They shouldconverse freely with the teachers, pupils, drivers and members of thedistrict board, in order to get from them as much information as pos-sible concerning the cost of operation, the nature of the roads, thecourse of study offered, the time when the first pupil enters the wagonand the average time eac
. Rural centralized, graded and model schools . istrict in the beginning are frequently loudest intheir praise of its benefits. In making a personal inspection the com-mittee should visit the school and compare the work being done withthe work usually done in the one-room rural schools. They shouldconverse freely with the teachers, pupils, drivers and members of thedistrict board, in order to get from them as much information as pos-sible concerning the cost of operation, the nature of the roads, thecourse of study offered, the time when the first pupil enters the wagonand the average time each child spends in the wagon, the health andpunctuality of children who are transported to and from school, theirregularity in attendance as compared with those who walk, their prog-ress in studies, the percentage of children enumerated actually en-rolled in the school and the number transferred from adjoining dis-tricts, the number of pupils who have completed the common schoolwork and the number who are doing work in the high school. The (28). School Building- Consolidated District No. 8, Kiowa County wagons or auto-busses should be examined and the cost many districts in the state wagons have been provided by buildingbodies and mounting them on regular farm wagon running gears atvery reasonable prices. The Ford truck is also coming into use as ameans of transportation. After thoroughly inspecting the school plantand its operation, the committee should then go to various parts ofthe district and interview as many of the fathers and mothers as pos-sible to ascertain at first hand their attitude toward the school. Donot trust to hearsay evidence, when in these days of cheap automobilesand improved roads it is so easy to find out the facts in the case bygoing and seeing and believing. This suggestion is made in all confidence, because after a care-ful investigation of consolidated schools in this state I am firmly con-vinced that, with the possible exception of two
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