Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . Children accommodated by the school building on wheels and their pet. 20 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT Distribution by Grades Of the 37 counties reporting (data from Custer, Hill,Mineral, Phillips, Richland and Rosebud counties not avail-able) it was found that there were 948 fewer children inthe seventh grade than in the sixth grade and 1065 fewerchildren in the eighth grade than in the seventh grade. Only79 per cent of the number found in the sixth grade and only51 per cent of the number in the first grade remained t
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . Children accommodated by the school building on wheels and their pet. 20 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT Distribution by Grades Of the 37 counties reporting (data from Custer, Hill,Mineral, Phillips, Richland and Rosebud counties not avail-able) it was found that there were 948 fewer children inthe seventh grade than in the sixth grade and 1065 fewerchildren in the eighth grade than in the seventh grade. Only79 per cent of the number found in the sixth grade and only51 per cent of the number in the first grade remained tofinish the elementary school. Can Montana afford to letover 2000 children drop out of school annually between thesixth and eighth grades?. Homemade playground equipment at the T^andusky school. Phillips county Every state has had the same experience as Montana inregard to the number of children who have left school fromthe fifth or sixth grade on. That alarming condition hasbeen remedied to a great extent in many states by establish-ing junior high schools. The critical adolescent period seemsto be bridged over successfully in such schools in whichthere is a differentiation of work. (See page 73.) Tho no official count was made it was reported fromseveral counties that a large proportion of the men whoregistered for the draft, many of them born in Montana,had never been any further than the fourth or fifth grades iifa%r^-£+*+b -k ~~S^o*\k£5: SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 21 in school. The children who drop out of school before theseventh grade have almost no chance of being successful ina social or economic way. Is it not probable that suchchildren are the marginal people who later become thedependents, the disg
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