Excerpt from Some Problems of Rural Life: Consolidation of Schools, Transportation of Scholars, Good Roads, Traveling LibrariesThe common school course of study provides for seven grades, each covering a school year of seven or eight months.How many parents living in the country send their children to school seven months a year and how many children attend seven years? Many think it quite sufficient to send two or three months each year and are not very insistant upon that much. Unfortunately some are compelled by stress of circumstances to have the help of their children in the work upon the farm and are forced to make the school attend ance short.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.