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The third error was in thinking that a teacher who handles only one . grade can adequately supervise the work of thirty-five or forty children. "At the* little ' country School the teacher had eight grades in one _room. but she had only fourteen children in all, so that Bill got much more individual attention than he gets This year.
The fourth mistake was most serious of al. When the country schools and the city schools were combined the curriculum or program—including the afterschool ? activities—became those of a city school with no allowance being made for the fact that farm children have chores to do at home and must go home on the bus which leaves right after school.
None of, these mistakes were an inevitable result of consolidation. A country school, whether it has one room or fifty, ought to be located in the country. Little is gained and much is lost by placing it in a town near busy streets, poolrooms, and drugstores with their soda fountains and comic books. The program of the country school ought to be planned with the special needs* the special' problems and the special knowledges and abilities of farm children in mind.
In those schools which are at the
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