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When School and Community Get Together

1950; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00098655.1950.11474757

1939-912X

Katharine Dresden, William H. Stegeman,

Diverse Educational Innovations Studies

first principalship. It was impossible to see the school, for it was hidden behind a barn which had been built, in the good old days, to house the horses that pupils and teacher rode to school. Ignoring rumors that this ugly dilapidated shed was a landmark, the principal and a couple of fellows hired out of the principal's own pocket went to work on a Saturday to pull down the eyesore before Nature could get around to blowing it down on the unsuspecting passerby. Saturday, farmers were going to town, passing the scene of activity. They stopped to stare, to question, they took a hand. And as the shed was demolished, talk turned to the school-yes, it does look woebegone; yes, it is nicer with the shed gone; yes, the grounds could be improved; might be, even, they could develop a school they would be proud to have in this community. Remember-this is America, and so the next step was that traditionally American institution, the committee. The volunteer wrecking crew became the school improvement committee.