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A good school starts 'with what the child aready knows and takes him on from there. Many of our school programs start with what the city knows rather than what the farm child knows. The farm boy needs to learn many Things which are unnecessary for city children. By the time he completes the eighth grade he should be able to compute accurately the number of bushels in a grain bin and many other things which are easily leartied in an arithmetic class but are being omitted from the books intended for city children. This is just another reason why it is a mistake* to move the country school into town.
In all too many cases the consolidated school has become ja weak imitation of the Ibig-city school with the disadvantages of the urban institution, for city schools have always worked under handicaps. Not only are they overcrowded and often so hig that the individual child gets lost in the crowd, but even more serious is the fact that he teachers are frus-' trated by far too many rules and regulations handed down by a complicated hierachy of assistant superinriculum directors and department tendents, principals, supervisors; curheads. In consolidatng our schools, we have quite unnecessarily saddled
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