Excerpt from The District Owned or Controlled Teacher's Home<br><br>To consider the teacher's home as part of the school plant is an outgrowth of the almost universal demand for better living conditions for teachers, especially for those. Who teach in the rural districts. The drift of population from the rural to the urban centers and the remarkable increase in the number of foreign tenant farmers have closed many good American homes to the teacher in the rural communities. In the small towns, on account of the limited number of houses for rent, it is not unusual for two or three families to occupy one house which in normal times would be considered too small for a single family. Teachers frequently find after careful inquiry that no rooms are available for them in the entire district except in the village hotel. School boards, in order to retain their best teachers, have rented furnished dwelling houses and have either given them to the teachers rent free, or charged a nominal monthly rental. Where the homes have been given rent free, it was considered a good investment, for the district received in return the services of a contented, happy corps of teachers, which even an advance in salary does not always make possible.<br><br>In the study of the teachers' homes presented in this bulletin, an attempt was made to secure accurate information from each State and county.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.