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Show m SCHOOL H TRANSPORTATION flfls A few years "go It seemed as if B I tliu problem of the country district flH i school hud been permanently solved, B ! thanks to tho Idea of concentrating flflj I schools in centers, and transporting B tho children. This Idea has spread fl all over tho country. It has at least flB enabled schools to bo better graded. flfl Power teachers and less Janitor serv B , lco do thu work, and a bettor grade B of touchers can ho employed, flflj J As time has gono on tho dofects B of tho system hecomo moro apparent. j J Kxcopt in tho moro southerly sections j I of tho country, thero aru many com- flBl plaints about exposure of children i during winter weather. Tho men k' ! hired as drivers nro often not depend- flflj ublo or lespouslhlo. Mothers dls Iko I to send children under such euro, E liartlcularly during freezing or stor- M my weather. flfl- Under the old tlmo method of small H- dlutrlet schools, tho larger part of T tbo children could go homo at noon, Hi oven through tho had traveling and Hi told weather of winter. Transport- Hj atlon makes It necessary for the Hi youngBtors to curry cold lunches. I H' t When tho tranoiortatlou idea was Hj. first tiled out, labor was less well H'j . paid. A competent niun and team H could bo had for a rousonublo price. B1, Tho cost of running transportation H' " wugoiis has largely Increased. Now B It often balances thu greater expense fl1 of runn'Ug scparuta schools. B, Sentiment lit tho funning districts H seems rather against tlto school con- B Kolidutlou and transportation Idea. It B Is clulmed that thu Httlo red school B housu within a milu of the farm B. makes reui estate more valuable, sup- B! I P Ics a bocial cuiter, and hetps mako flfl, country llfu moro utt-actlvo. It lu B a pioblum that every school district K imibt light out for Itself. Hut there B;' Ih danger both to the health and tho B morals of children, It the transport- B i utluu Is not carefully regulated. |
