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Are Consolidated Schools Shortchanging The Child?
With ,the question “What do you think of the school situation” being asked 'several times daily, we are, trying to publish every bit of information that comes to the editor's desk. The following article was given to us this week by an interested school patron. This article was written by Paul Woodring, Professor of Psychology, Western Washington College of Education, and published in a recent issue of Country Gentleman. —Editor's Note.
Bill Martin is a young friend of mine who attended a one-room country school for five years. Last year the district was reorganized and now he is a sixth-grader in a larger consolidated school located in a good sized town ten miles from his home. Bill is not very happy about the change. —
At first glance it would appear . that the new school is a great improvement over the old one. There is a fine new building with excellent heating, lighting and ventilation, and this is' a far cry from the one-room school where it was always too hot near the stove and too cold near the window; where it was hard to see the blackboard on cloudy days and a draft came through the cracks in the floor. But a school is more than a building. A school is a way of living for several hours each day and Bill is not sure that the new way is an improvement over the old.
This school district probably needed to be consolidated, but in the consolidation several mistakes were made—mistakes which are being made all over the country.
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