New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-26
TEACHERS CHANGE
LOCATIONS OFTEN IN
VERY FEW REMAIN IN SCHOOL S
MORE THAN TWO YEARS
AT MOST.
ATTENDANCE IN RURAL SCHOOL
NOT UP TO RECOGNIZED
STANDARD

There is apparently no danger of race
suicide in Brown County if the report
OF the enrolment of pupils in the public
schools Of the county is any criterion.
According to the annual report which is
just being compiled by County Super
intendent of Schools r. B. Kennedy the
number of pupils enrolled during the
last school year aggregated Ats as
against 4089 for 1915 and 4O42 for 1914.
For the purpose of convenience the
report puts the high and graded schools
into one class and the rural schools in
another. According to the school census
taken last summer there were 2257
pupils of school age in the rural districts
of which number 2206 were enrolled. Of
this number 1868 attended 40 days or
more and are entitled to the state school
apportionment. Of the number en-
rolled 1852 were boys and 1854 girls, the
boys predominating by SO. The average
daily attendance aggregated 1880.
The number of children of school age
in the high and graded schools consisting
of the New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Springfield,
Comfrey and Hanska schools according
to the census amounted to 2498. Of this
number 1875 were enrolled and 1861
are entitled to the state apportionment.
The large discrepancy between the
number actually enrolled and those of
school age is explained by the fact that
great many attended the parochial
schools. Girl pupils predominated,
there being 9 more than boys, total of
992 of the former being enrolled to 983
OF the latter. The average daily at
tendance was 1886, an average of 339
pupils failing to attend every day. This
is much better showing than was made
by the rural schools where an average of
826 missed school every day.
In the high and graded schools IL
male and 81 female teachers were en-
ployed, the former receiving an average
OF $3.50 per month, the latter $62.40
per month. Of this number S are
graduates of High Schools, 80 of Normal
Schools and % of Colleges. Twenty of
this number have taught in the same
district for three years and over, 16 for
two years and 80 for one year. In other
words, nearly half of them were new
teachers in the particular district in
which they taught.
In the rural districts there were male
and " female teachers. The average
wage of the male teachers was $54 and
female teachers $50 per month. Of this
number 26 were graduates from High
Schools and AZ from High School Train
ing Departments. There were no Nor
NAL graduates and none from Colleges.
Six of these teachers had taught in the
same district for 8 years or more. II for
two years and So for one year. Thus
there were nearly two-thirds of the
entire number that were teaching in
their particular district for the first year.
Of the high and graded schools 4
supply textbooks free and one also sells
them at cost to the pupils. New Ulm
in this respect is notable exception,
because it neither loans the books free
nor does it furnish them to the pupils
at cost. OF the rural districts ID loan
the books free and z sell them at cost.
New Ulm was the only school of the
first class to plant trees during the year.