Identifier: consolidatedrura232knor (find matches)
Title: Consolidated rural schools and organization of a county system
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Knorr, George Washington United States. Office of Experiment Stations United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Statistics
Subjects: Rural schools Schools, Centralization
Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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chool, but these conditions donot always obtain. In sections where the civic or school units areirregular in form or are very large in size, and where a township ordistrict perhaps requires several consolidated schools to serve itsneeds, centralization can not take place in the exact sense of that word,and in such cases the term consolidation applies rather than centrali-zation. Complete consolidation is used to indicate a merger of No. 232 24 all the rural schools of a township, or larger civic or school unit, intoone; partial consolidation, on the other hand, signifies that onlypart of the schools of a to^Ynship or arbitrary area have been merged,still leaving part of the original district or common schools detachedor unconsolidated. The ideal consolidated school district is 4 to 7miles across each way, its size being determined by the practical limitsof the team haul. In time, as the consolidated schools become solidlycemented into rural life affairs, some new name will no doubt be
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Fig. 12.—A oue-puinl class.In eight district schools in Champion Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, were held 46daily classes of one pupil each. Small classes lack in enthusiasm, and the pupil loses theimmense advantage of one in a large class who listens to the recitations of others, therepetition of questions and answers being a drill which is most helpful. devised truly expressive of their function in, or relation to, the ruralcommunity life. The names farm-school and country-life school have been suggested for the consolidated school located on a smallschool farm among farms in the open country. Many of the consolidated schools, especially those located withinAillages, are cramped for room. Five acres should be the least, while10 or 12 acres is about the right size for school grounds. Ifthere is no immediate prospect for using this land as a school farmfor purjDoses of instruction, part of it may be sown to grass and set No. 232 25 apart for athletics and other uses: another part

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