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Direct and Mays Prairie Still Considering Matter for Their Districts The consolidation of oral schools for high school purposes, the hope of the leaders of rural school education, is making slow but steady headway in this county as a number of rural schools are considering consolidation for next term. Direct and Mays’ Prairie are considering this plan. If the plan goes through, Direct will add a room to their school building and employ a third teacher, giving in struction on the high school grades for both communities while Mays’ Prairie will furnish free transpor tation for their high school pupils and transfer the state apportion ment for these grades to Direct. By this method a good rural high school education will be offered the children of both communities Miss Eula Burns, who has taught in both schools the past several years is largely responsible for the move. The people of these two school districts know that Miss Burns is really interested in their children and proposes the consoli dation for their good. She has given close attention to various methods of rural consolidation and has taken college courses on the subject. The trustees of both districts will meet with the county superin tendent in the near future and make final plans for their schools. Independence community held a mass meeting at the school house Tuesday night to consider consoli dation for high school grades with Minter. A large crowd was pres ent and most of them took part in the discussion. Walter Martin, county superintendent, gave an in structive talk on consolidation in which he pointed out the many advantages offered the boys and girls who have the privilege of at tending a rural high school. He told why it is impossible for a two teacher school to develop a thor ough course in the high school grades, giving figures on the cost of teaching high school work In the two teacher schools, Dr. T. W. Buford gave an inter esting talk, telling Independence what Minter’s consolidated had to offer their boys and girls. The people of Independence believe in Dr. Buford and know him to be unselfish in his proposal of consoli dation. A namer of the patrons of In dependence school mide — brief talks, some being in favor of con solidation, while others, agreeing that it was a good thing, offered, thought transportation impractical because of the road conditions of this section of the county. No defi nite action was taken, Brookston’s election for a uni form tax over the entire district made necessary by the consolida tion of part of the Oxford district, resulted in forty-five for the tax and none against it. The Brookston community is go ing ahead with plans for erecting a new $16,000 brick b building to be
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Paris Weekly News
Paris, Texas, US
Thu, May 27, 1926
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