Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . ountywhere per cent of the boys and girls enrolled in theschools of Miles City and Ismay last year completed theeighth grade while only per cent of the children enrolledin the rural schools of that county finished the eighth striking contrast, the adjoining county of Yellowstoneactually had a larger proportion of the enrollment who finish- SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 23 ed the eighth grade in rural schools than in city terms, stricter enforcement of compulsory educationlaws,
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . ountywhere per cent of the boys and girls enrolled in theschools of Miles City and Ismay last year completed theeighth grade while only per cent of the children enrolledin the rural schools of that county finished the eighth striking contrast, the adjoining county of Yellowstoneactually had a larger proportion of the enrollment who finish- SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 23 ed the eighth grade in rural schools than in city terms, stricter enforcement of compulsory educationlaws, better teaching, more supervision and the fact thathigh schools are available for all city children and unavailablefor most rural children are responsible for the much smallernumber finishing the eighth grade in country districts ofmost counties. It is a strange coincidence that there were on an averagein 1917-18 about 250 more boys than girls in each of the firstfour grades which number decreased rapidly in the fifth andsixth grades. When the seventh and eighth grades were. Cleanliness is considered next to godliness in one of the Ravalli county ruralschools. Boys getting ready for lunch. reached so many boys had dropped out of school that thenumber of girls was larger than that of boys. In the firstsix grades there were 1200 more boys than girls enrolledwhile in the seventh and eighth grades there were 1287 moregirls than boys enrolled. Is there less in the seventh andeighth grade curricula that appeals to boys than to girls orare boys more needed at home so that they are being sacri-ficed more than girls? In Ravalli, Broadwater, and Chouteau counties there wasan unusually large proportion of boys who left school in theseventh and eighth grades while in Big Horn, Sweet Grassand Sheridan counties that period seems to be more criticalfor girls. 24 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT Retardation There were in 1917-18 over 22,000 or per cent over-age children in 35 counties of the st
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