Seward High School - Ess Aitch Ess Yearbook (Seward, IL)

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fffffffffffff4'3F S H Sffitfffffffffff. Our Consolidated Home The First Consolidated School in Illinois CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. There are now over 12,000 consolidated schools in the rural districts, towns, and small cities of the United States. They have taken the place of approximately 50,000 little one-teacher schools. Statistics show that during the year 1919-20 over 1,000 new consolidated schools were established. Consolidated schools equalize educational opportunities. Those of standard type are rapidly becoming the strongest schools in our educational system. They are all the result of an attempt to equalize education from the bottom up. T-hey equalize by bringing the poorest schools up not only to the average but to the best. The consolidated school provides for children in the rural districts, IIIIIIIIIIIIIHFP 192 41f?IIIfIIIIIIIIIfI I . . ..l

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. large, new, modern buildings, with auditoriums, gymnasiums, and rooms for science, agriculture, shop work, cooking, etc., in addition to classrooms, good modern heating plants and proper Ventilating systems. The consolidated school provides school buildings and grounds designed to safeguard and promote the children's health, supplies them with an abund- ance of mechanical means necessary for work and recreation, and develops in them an idea of the aesthetic. As far as the course of study is concerned, the consolidated school gives a considerable choice of subjects, in addition to the essential ones, so that the pupil may follow the lines of his own interests or necessities. It provides a group of professionally trained, experienced, and supervised teachers with whom he may become acquainted. In a great number of cases transportation is furnished to and from school. The consolidated school may cost more because it is necessary to transport the pupils from their homes to the school. If, however, we count costs in terms of better schools and happier children, we certainly receive much greater returns for the money we spend. There are at the presnt time 86,000 one-teacher schools i11 the United Statesland some of them are so small that only two or three pupils are in regular attendance. Of course, no one would for a moment think that the 186,000 one-teacher schools could or even should all be consolidated in a short time, but ultimately the one-teacher school must give way in most cases to the consolidated school. This question arises, would the patrons of many consolidated schools in the United States go back to the old way? In Iowa 1,400 farmers living in 56 consolidated schoo-l districts were asked this ques- tion, and nine out of every ten answered No, and some were very emphatic in answering No, J. E. F. llllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ll IIIlllIlllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllll 3 : llllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllll I llllllllllll Illl I IU I llll Ill I lllllllllllllllll I 4 lIlIllllIlllIlIlIll Illl I llllillllllllllllllflllllIIllIllllllllllillllflllll llll I Nine