Whole Town's Talking: Cambridge, Iowa part 2

and you know these people out in this this area that come into Cambridge and make it a community you think Larry's right and he says if you lose your school and tear the heart out of your community I think he's absolutely wrong a survey has been made over two-thirds of the state of Iowa and it shows that the communities from nineteen thirty six to nineteen fifty there has been a steady decline in the business and in the services rendered by those towns many of those towns have lost their high schools they've closed up the survey shows that have that had not one single bit of effect on the decline in business in those towns you don't think they were diving that solutely not I shall take what are we after in our community are we after business or is it the business of the schools to educate our these studies are all right but some of us are little leery of them what you've got any personal experience and proved to me that there's some way out of this or some experience that you know about you Scoob ah I had a conversation with a boy that graduated from Cambridge high school he made application to enter Iowa State College they would not receive his credits that he had earned in caught in Cambridge high school as entrance into that school and into i always think I know that happens lots of places was the reason for the reason in our casted in adequate facilities in our school inadequate curriculum and we are not able to go into the teachers over Larry's got an answer for that he says consolidating that you've solved your problem consolidation that is 30 years too late I lived on a farm over here 35 years ago when they all of these schools consolidate look what's happened to the Consolidated School white oak is closed Kelly has closed the pier just northwest of Kelly last year graduated Mormon student well then John you don't think that you got the issues right here you don't think Larry's right and he says consolidations take quarter consolidate so and you don't think that's wrong I do not or what is your solution this indicates this district and it shows the situation as it is at present the teachers that are employed in Cambridge for in high school 6 inch cut sling sick since later foreign shuttle and three analogy this shows the district the plan that is proposed by our own story county board of education it is the plan that Cambridge shall close its high school Kelly shall flow Slater she'll float shown of the show hello there just high school just around our and former Central High School at Hudson the school says they are now in this district and point 23 teachers the reorganized school will employ 14 I know that all sounds good but you here too far apart John it will work that way it is three and a half miles by the road to from Cambridge too hectic the distances are indicated from these schools those are good roads you know they are I travel them every day but there's only possibly two or three days of year that those roads are impassable why should transportation be a problem Larry says consolidation and solve all these problems what more of you got you got to have something more I'm not interested look at our curriculum this represents the curriculum of our Cambridge School above is the regular curriculum look at the limited amount that we have of those things in our school here is the extracurricular to go out to dinner well there's nothing there so you can see this is the proposed curriculum of our reorganize district look at the difference the more studies that they'll have the more of subjects that they can pursue look at the extracurricular activities they will have all the curricular activity of a marg school after all what do we is this school for the business of our community is it for your pleasure and mine as taxpayers or is it to educate our children mrs. Harker you have a couple of children are going to be in school pretty soon in Cambridge what do you think about this thing is the town more important are the children more for the night mark I wouldn't wanna say that i thought either the school or the community was important because i don't think that you can say one is more important than the other if you don't have a thriving community to 10 men driving school if you don't have a driving school your community is going to suffer i might say our let me matter i have in district number five on the farm and we do our most of our cheney we can vagina face ninety-nine percent 00 as my children are going to go someplace else to school I think for my part I would be have tendency to trace them somewhere else and also in Cambridge there are great many people living there that work on places and if their children go someplace else to school why will they drive come let us working with the children ride someplace else to school and move where that school is ceremony everybody like an now you're hemmed in here between two creatures so you're probably not miss Griffin I'm wondering what what's the world we might say has to offer a city graduate because they have many activities and many subjects to take what does the world have to offer a high school graduate in a city that it doesn't have to offer in a small town our small town girls and boys seem to break the same job you're going to have to go on to college anyway if you specialize in any subject about that John John I don't pick on you tonight alright because they called me all you like you asked what a city graduate of a city school has the Heritage I'll Taylor one thing they have they can bridge the gap between high school and college their father did they're better trained Tom can't do John I never did German situation where a small town cambridge facebook could have gone to college had any trouble there no trouble about their entrance that's are you sure i can state two or three specific patients for the right here we've got you one large has been out of school since nineteen forty nine maybe because i have on our representatives that are giving air pilot in the Air Corps I think we have a good percentage that have passed the test and that's one of the most rigid IQ tests and service we've got one here tonight here you're not a pilot I'm not a pilot and no right on the mail run Oh John how many of those students that you've got listed up there in those subjects actually received the benefit of those subjects now we can say in our school each one of our students has a basic and probably a little more than the basic of each one of those subjects up there he has a chance to participate in him he does participate in him and he gets that extra training that I don't think you can possibly get the larger school well I have an editor to that too in the first place a survey made by Iowa State College brings out this Frank normed high school can operate at its peak of efficiency without at least 200 students if you drop below 200 students the cost per pupil throws up and you as the number of people's define you say that they are not getting not anymore in this curriculum than here these are these pork team teachers that we have in this central high school because of the larger budget because of the better pay that can be offered to them you can go to the teaching fraternity and you can attract teachers who have had specialized in in my English in mathematics in science you cannot do that on the low salaries that are paid in King John I wish they'd pick on Larry he's a little bigger but them would you like to explain this chart here of the tax rate you