Connecting a Rural Public School

Abstract

Currently, the stock of buildings in American school districts is becoming old and is no longer suitable for learning. When these buildings are gone will the same type of building replace them? Or will people step up and design new schools with current ideas that will allow the public school to provide the most that they can for their communities? This thesis investigates current issues in rural public school design and looks into ideas to remedy them. Current and contemporary schools still use building ideas and teaching styles from the 1900’s, but in the present time these are obviously no longer acceptable or relevant. America, even though it is a powerful nation many schools lack money to even support art programs or sports teams. Something needs to be changed so that new, well designed, schools are thought of as a necessity. Public schools need to find new and contemporary ways to solve public school problems such as lack of money, lack of community interaction and lack of indoor-outdoor relationship. In this paper an idea of connections will be investigated to remedy the current situation of public school and attempt to make American schools relevant again.