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Title: Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Carney, Mabel, b. 1885
Subjects: Schools Rural schools Country life
Publisher: Chicago : Row, Peterson and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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on form afarmers club or local grange to carry the good work further,as described in an earher chapter. (See page 88.) Developing Cooperation Between the Home and theSchool; Parents Clubs. The much-desired interest andcooperation of parents with the school is perhaps easier gainedand held through the formality of an organization. For thispurpose, a parents association conducted on much the samelines as the girls and boys club is a useful agency. Not thata teacher is supposed to go into a community and set all the THE COUNTRY TEACHERS PROBLEM 235 women club crazy. This is a city evil that we need notimitate in the country. But such an organization as the onesuggested has its place among parents everywhere, and espe-cially in the country, where mothers are busy and often needchange and recreation. Meetings should be held about once amonth, and the chief initiative should be exercised not by theteacher but by the parents. Topics of school and child wel-fare should constitute the program.
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Play Festival, Harlem Consolidated School, Winnebago County, Illinois Other Agencies for the Socialization of the CountrySchool: Newspapers; Exhibits; Educational Excursions.The wide-awake teacher will not stop with suggestions givenher by others, but will constantly adapt and seize every oppor-tunity that presents itself. Every community affords its ownindividual agencies for awakening a broader and better coun- 236 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL try life. Those given here are simply suggestive. But ameans practically always at the disposal of the ambitiousteacher is the local newspaper. If the teacher is an originalthinker and can occasionally write a few statements concern-ing local conditions, it will be best, but quoted articles on coun-try life subjects from books and periodicals are effectivewhen given particular comment. Local school items preparedby the children prove interesting at home and furnish a goodaim for written school work. Besides this, the bulletins ofthe sta

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