The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-02-24
LAST B. B. GAME
FRIDAY NIGHT
South Dakota Stands Goth In Rating
OF Schools Of U. 5.

The Home and School meeting SCH
eduled for last week and called off on
account of the weather will be held on
Thursday night, February twenty
fourth. There will be a short program
by pupils, a reading by Grace Davey,
a short talk and then a social hour.
We wish as many out to this meeting
as is possible.
The Boys Basketball team will play
their last game before the tournament
on Friday, February tw~enty-fifth. The
Pierre boys team will play here at
that time. 1t will be the last boys
game on the home floor and we want
a good crowd.
The Girls Basketball team will take
a trip to Pierre ON March fourth and
fifth where they will play the High
School and Indian teams. On March
eleven we will have the last basketball
game of the season for the girls when
the Pierre Indian girls team will play
at Miller.
The second debate of the season for
Miller High School will be held at Mil
Ter on Friday night, March fourth.
The local Negative team will meet the
Faulkton Affirmative team Faulkton
has won two debates so far this season
and are coming prepared to win a
third.
The question for debate is the same
as before, Resolved that Congress
should enact legislation providing for
an Industrial Court, for the settlement
OF disputes, arising between Capital
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Rating Of States on Education
A rating of the different states i'm
Education has recently been made by
the Russell Sage Foundation of New
York. DR. Leonard p. Ayres conduct
ed the rating. South Dakota was rat
ed twenty-ninth. Probably the main
reason for the low rating is on account
o. the lack of Consolidated Schools in
the state compared with every state
around Us. We still argue against
them, even when every state around
us has many more and like them very
much and have overcome the difficult
ties which we claim we would have.
In the rating Montana stands first,
Iowa seventh, Colorado IA, North Da-
kota fifteenth, Minnesota nineteenth,
Nebraska twenty-second, Wyoming
twenty-fifth, and South Dakota twenty
nineth. Most all Of the states below
us are southern states.
The data from which the rating was
given are as follows:
/. Percent of school population at
tending school daily.
2. Average days attended by each
child of school age.
3. Average number of days schools
were kept open.
4. Per cen that high school attend
ance was of total school attendance.
5. Per cent that boys were of girls
in high schools.
8. Average annual expenditure per
child attending.
Z. Average annual expenditure per
child Of school age.
8. Average annual expenditure per
teacher employed.
3. Expenditure per pupil for pur-
poses other than teachers salaries
10. Expenditure per teacher for
salaries.
In 1890 South Dakota was ranked 80
with II of her border states behind
her. In 1900 she jumped up to twenty
fifth with one border state behind her.
In 1910 she ranked twenty-sixth with
two border states behind her. In 1918,
the time of last rating she ranked
twenty nine.
We cannot help but feel that we be-
long higher up on the list. AS far as
expenditure is concerning we probably
would rank higher, but the attendance
question will bring us back down
again. The only way we can hope to
obtain a better ranking is by pushing
the consolidated school movement to
the finish.