Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1916 — TEACHING YOUNG INDIANA A BIG JOB [ARTICLE]

TEACHING YOUNG INDIANA A BIG JOB

Millions of Dollars, Thousands of Teachers and Little School Houses. That it takes thousands and thousands of pedagogues, millions of dollars, thousands of little red school houses and heaven knows how many gads to educate young Indianians, has been proven by E. B. Saber, deputy state superintendent of public instruction. Though figures are often said to be tiresome, a study of Mr. Saber’s report will be interesting. According to his figures, there are 774,342 children of school age in Indiana. The total enrollment in public schools last term was 564,252, the figures falling 110,000 'below the enumeration. Not all of these youngsters were playing continuous hookey, however, for there are many parochial and private schools in the state. Also some children of, school age arc not physically capacitated to attend school.

Most of the children are in the township schools, next in order comes the city schools and finally the town schools. The enrollment in the township schools last term was 288,016; in the city schools 227,502, and in the town schools 48,834. White girls numbered 271,937. Colored boys numbered 5,807 and colored girls 6,085. Average daily attendance was 401,875 for the elementary schools and 62,876 for the high schools. , It requires 19,678 teachers to educate the boys and girls. Men teachers number 6,207 find women teachers number 13,441. The township schoosl require 11,122 teachers, the city schools 6,881 and the town schools 1y645. The teaching force for the city schools is little more than half that of the Country schools, although there is but little difference in the number of*pupils taught. There are 25l superintendents, 1,150 supervisors and special teachers, 771 high school principals,- 774 principals of elementary schools, 2,297 teachers qf regular high school subjects and 14,305 teachers of regular elementary school subjects.