Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1913 — ONLY ONE PUPIL IN COUNTRY GRADES [ARTICLE]

ONLY ONE PUPIL IN COUNTRY GRADES

County Superintendent Lamson Finds Single Student in Mary Classes in Country! Jmm ■ —■■■ All over the state there is a constant cry against the small school. It is a well known fact that a child will do better work when he is in a class with several others. Superintendent Lamson hks recently compiled some figures which show' a rather startling condition in Jasper county. Of the 87 schools in the county there are only 19 that do not have one or more grades in which there is one child alone in grade. There are five schools which have four grades with only one child in*a grade. There are sixteen, schools which have three grades with only one child in a grade There are thirty-five schools which have two grades with only . one child in a grade. There are nine schools which have one grade with only one child-in a grade