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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n misconceptions prevail re-garding the supposed advantages of straight and section-line roads.In fact, not a few farmers believe that section-line roads possess allthe advantages and that it is almost impossible to plan school wagonroutes for an entire consolidation district where there are only ir-regular roads. To show the error of that opinion, it is only necessaryto cite the fact that of the existing consolidated schools about asmany are located in counties which have irregular or meanderingroads as there are in counties which have regular or section-line roads. 94 A large number of examples illustrating this could be introduced,applying mostly to individual consolidated districts or at best toparts of counties. But as it is particularly desirable to show thatirregular roads or hilly and rolling land do not necessarily interferewith the success of a county system of school consolidation, a tenta-tive scheme of consolidation was planned for a county possessing suchcharacteristics.
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Fig. 31.—Map of Fairfax County, Va., illustrating a tentative plan of rural school consoli-dation in a county witii irregular roads. Area, 443 square miles. The location of the proposed consolidated schools is indicatedby the usual symbol. The numbers before G. and H. S. give the enrolment in thegrades and high school classes of the proposed schools. Arrows point in the direction ofthe wagon route to schools. PROJECTED CONSOLIDATION IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA. School population in 1905, white, 4,681; colored, 2,015.This agricultural county is at present divided into six school dis-tricts, which are subdivided into 63 subdistricts, the affairs of which No. 232 95 are administered by six district boards. The county has four incor-porated towns with special school districts—Falls Church, Vienna,Fairfax Court House, and Herndon—and in planning the consoli-dated districts the special districts have been left intact to serve theconstituencies for which they were created. As the smaller tow

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