The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-08-06
BEST OF HIGH SCHOOLS
FOR DISTRICT NO. 28

The high school teaching force of
district No. % will be one third
larger when school opens September g.
All needed equipment will be supplied.
The school board believes that the peo-
pie want and are entitled to high school
advantages equal to those of the city
or any other section of the country,
and precisely such advantages are as
sured by the arrangements which have
been made for the ensuing years work.
1t is expected that the enrolment will
be greatly increased, not only by pupils
in this district but also by pupils from
without the district. AS soon as par
ents in Missoula and adjoining counties
learn of the superior advantages offered
here it is believed that they will send
their children here for their high school
education rather than into the over
crowded high schools of the city.
The new law which places our high
schools on the same basis of support as
that of the high school in Missoula, has
assisted materially in making such ex-
cellent advantages available in District
%. By virtue of this law our schools
now become county high schools. 1t is
now all up to the parents. Are they
going to send their children in sufficient
numbers to make all of this worth
while or not?
Supervision, consolidation, and rural
high schools have been the chief fac
tors in the school system which has al
ready made this section so widely known
as progressive and promising. There
are comparatively few communities in
Washington, Montana and Idaho which
have not heard indirectly of the school
system in District No. 28, Missoula
county. AS an advertising medium for
building up this country with the most
desirable class of settlers, our schools
are probably doing more than all other
agencies combined. Papers like the
Spokesman-Review and the Helena In
dependent have published, without the
knowledge Of any Of the officials of Dis
trict No. %, articles on aspects of the
school work here. Superintendent
have made trips of several hundred
miles to examine into the organization
and workings of our schools, and have
gone away convinced of the extraordi-
nary benefits which the form of organ
ization and the policies of this district
assure. The district superintendent
has been invited for two summers to
give six weeks series of lectures at
the state university on rural schools.
All of this puts the people of this
section on test under the eyes of
this state and Of other states. For the
making of Welch rarebit, the rabbit,
of all else, is essential! The people
must provide the pupils, enthusiastically
and with sense of local patriotism, as
a measure of love and obligation to the
and as mark of duty to tie
neighbors and to the state.
Not only is the work of our high
schools accredited for admission of pu-
pills into all of the educational institu-
tions of the state, but, as it meets the
Of the North Central Asso-
citation, it will be accepted by the
higher institutions of the Northwest. /
Three years are offered at Arlee and
at St. 1gnatius, four years at Roman,
one or two years at Leon and at Elliott.
If a central building is erected west of
Roman, standard high school work will
be offered there also. This district is
better supplied with high schools than
any other section of the state of CORE
spending area, with possibly one sec
ton.
AS specialists in home economics have
been secured for Arlee, St. Ignatius
and Roman, a full four year course will
be offered at those points in the sub
ject. Every other subject will also be I
given by successful teachers who are
graduates of standard universities and
nave specialized in the teaching of their
special subjects.
Pupils who have finished the eighth
grade and passed the eighth grade ex-
will be accepted without con-
ltion. Pupils who have finished part
81. the eighth grade work and are able
to carry some work in high school will
be accepted as high school pupils, but
they will be required to carry the un-
finished work of the eighth grade also
lntil it is satisfactorily completed.
Every child in this district who wants
A high school edgcation can get it; pro-
'ided that he or she has fair health and
s willing to work, and provided that
he parent will lend encouragement. If
he child is within walking or riding
distance there is no excuse. If the