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Gone Are The Days
Editor's Note—(With this article we do not advocate .the abandoning of the modern consolidation nor do we preach a preference for the cold 2 mile walk that the yellow school bus transplants. A bit oostaglic however we see the inevitability of growth, •true a wonderful growth. And we stop a moment *to salute the pot-, bellied stove inits. little red school building ... we say a prayer that therfc will be room in the modem artitecture as, there was in the “little red school house” for the individual.) . , The hig yellbw school bus, is • pushing the little red schoolhouse off the American landscape. ■> Although there remain 45,000 one-room schools (some still red), the number is shrinking at the rate of 10 a day, says the National Geographic Society. * ~ School districts hive been enlarged. Modem steel,' stone and Er,« structures, each housing hundreds of pupils and 10 or more teachers, are replacing, the elementary classrooms where four or more grades studied and recited
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