The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-10
school Report.
To The BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SAuK CENTRE, MINI.

To THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SAuK CENTRE, MINI.
Gentlemen:-I beg leave submit m sec
ond monthly report, Total enrolment
SIS, a gain of Is for this month. Per-.
centage of attendance 90 SO.
Highest percentage attendance in the
4th grade, 9S.5. The 7th grade had a
OF $50.
Number Of cases of Hardness 70. the
month 20.
Miss Rose Apfeld was sick on Thurs
day and Friday and her place was very
creditably filled by Miss Fannle Tillot.
son.
Three of the girls were very desirous of
studying Greek, inasmuch as it was in
the course thought bestto form class.
Miss Tillotson was secured. Inasmuch
as we have the subject in the course Of
study and because Miss Tillotson will
do the work at nominal figure 1
recommend that she be employed.
There were 20 cases of hardness dur
ing the month, fifteen of these cases were
due to pupils not hearing the bell. Il
Eepu special record of excuse offered for
tardiness with above result. The ma
jorIty OF the other cases were because of
the clocks. Now if we had a lar1e bell,
it would do away with both of the
above excuses and Hardness could be re-
duced to minimum.
There are many moral questions that
arise in connection with the training of
young people. Many of these are tut Of
jurisdiction of the school board as such,
but they eau act in some of them in the
capacity of citizens.
There is one thing going on in this
town that ought to be suppressed as
much as possible, and that is cigarette
smoking. This can be done by giving
notice to the dealers that they must not
sell to minors and then follow it up.
This thing is done in other places by
boards of education and it could be done
here.
l found out that we were entitled
to SIS from the state for library provid-
ing the district gives SIS. ing smuch as we
can get $40 worth of books for SIS and
a. reduced rate would recommend the
purchase of these books.
There is much talk these days about
the cost of our schools. l have been
looking the matter up and find that
the tax payers OF Sank Centre have no
reason to complain of the amount OF
| direct school tax they have to pay.
The average cost per pupil in the
United States on an average of seven
months to the school year is SLIP or
$.123 per day.
The average cost per pupil in Minneso-
ia for 1891 was $16.21. The average
cost per pupil in the country school is
81 which would make the average in the
the city and village schools considerable
more than the average for the state.
The averoge cost per pupil il our own
schools last year was $16.24. three cents
more than the average for the state
and below the average for city schools.
This includes all money paid out on
bonds, intereston bonds, teachers and
expense. Deducting the amount paid OH
bonds and interest and estimating
the average on the actual running K
penses we find it to be $13.36 making
the interest and bonds cost sass per
pupil.
The amount of money received from
all sources, except direct tax was
$3O17,e1. People in general little re-
alize the amount OF money this state
has as permanent school fund. Ii;
1891 this amounted to $685., 1920, 46.
the interest of this vast amount is dis
tributed among the public schools of tile
state in proportion to the number of
pupils. The interest on this amount
last year was $6sO,1sO,e4. This dis
tr1ct received from this fund about
$17OO. ...@
In addition TO this there is a state one
mill tax for school purposes. OF course
this is to the disadvantage OF wealth
centers and to the advantage of poor
but comparatively populous districts.
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth mnst
send out $4,000 year into the schools
of the state,
In addition to the above there is
county one-mill tax that is divided in
the same way among the different
schools of the county. In addition the
state to each high school $4O5. So. to
repeat, this district received from all these
sources last year $3O17.91.
This amounts to 1928 per pupil; de-
Quoting this from the amount required
to pay-running expenses and we find
that the actual cost per pupil by direct
tax was $S.0S little less than one-halfl
of the entire.
People should not complain about the
expense of school when they are getting
more than an average quality at an
average price. have some figures re.
garding cost of schools per pupil in some
representative cities.
Jackson. Mich, $40; Kansas City. $40:
Buffalo, $19.7s; Bloomington, ILL.,, about
$40; Watertown, N. Y, $19.35; Lincoln,
Nebrask, $20.76. There are figures for
running expenses against $13.36 in our
school for running expenses.
About the high school there seems to