Show Money Ion l y for the Rural Schools One farmer with with a heap cheap auto- auto nobile has more money invested n that one piece of mechanism han Than the average rural community ty as a whole has in its school plant Ilant and and the owner of the auto frequently spends as much on tHe upkeep of his one ona car as the community spends for the total maintenance of the thc school including including in in- duding the teachers teacher's salary This is one of a number of significant sig- sig significant significant sig sig- comparisons s brought out ut by the Hon W. W V. V I F. F Feagin State Superintendent of Education Edu Edu- cation for Alabama in a survey report to the United States I Bureau of Education To illustrate further the of the schools Supt Feagin Fea- Fea gin in shows ys sho a dilapidated rural school chool in contrast with the handsomely constructed jail in ill inthe inthe the he same county costing costin several thousand dollars This ThiR jail drinking he says has sanitary fountains shower baths clear cleal floors plenty of light good ven- ven and nd i is otherwise at at- Could a ner person nerson on from the district in which this school schools school's s 's s located he be blamed for mr nr the jail Naturally country schools school make appeal either to pupils existing con con- under or 11 r teachers Pupils drop out ont and teachers move Out Ont of 5 42 pupils entering the first grade in inthe inthe the he schools inspected in the Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama hama survey only 60 completed the he work of the fourth year of fhe she hi high eh school Of the teach- teach cent nt holding holding- their TS rs rs 76 per c are resent positions for the first rime Of the remainder 18 per ent are arr teaching the their 1 second session f sion in their first school and only HI 19 per cent have stayed staved more than two years in the same place |