Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . sionally held in ranch homes or in old shacks un-suitable for use. There were 248 such make-shift schoolhouses in use last year. (Data from Hill county were notavailable). In the majority of such cases the districts aremaking a levy of from ten to twenty mills or even more, inorder to maintain any school. In many other cases, wealthydistricts are not providing comfortable or sanitary quartersfor their children. Occasionally thru negligence of trustees,schools are not provided with toilets or provided with onlyone.
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . sionally held in ranch homes or in old shacks un-suitable for use. There were 248 such make-shift schoolhouses in use last year. (Data from Hill county were notavailable). In the majority of such cases the districts aremaking a levy of from ten to twenty mills or even more, inorder to maintain any school. In many other cases, wealthydistricts are not providing comfortable or sanitary quartersfor their children. Occasionally thru negligence of trustees,schools are not provided with toilets or provided with onlyone. In one wealthy district in Deer Lodge county no toilethad been provided for the school up to July, 1918 and in a 82 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT neighboring district only one was provided up to that time,tho both were old schools. In May, 1918 at a school not farfrom the county seat of Teton county, a toilet was lying on itsside where it had blown early in the year. Sanitary toilets free from marks and provided with lockand key are the exception rather than the rule. A few pro-. How can high ideals and public spirit he inculcated in children attendingschools where such neglect prevails? gressive districts have put in their school chemical indoortoilets which are proving to be very satisfactory. Hundredsof districts could easily afford to substitute such sanitary ar-rangements for the old type toilet. Money that is oftenwasted for useless charts, planitariums, etc. would be muchbetter spent on chemical toilets. Lighting In some of the wealthiest districts and in the oldestcounties old buildings with cross lighting are still in use. Forexample, 76 per cent of the schools in Deer Lodge county, 66per cent in Beaverhead, 65 per cent in Broadwater, 60 per centin Park, 58 per cent in Gallatin, 57 per cent in Granite, 54per cent in Sanders, 52 per cent in Madison and 51 per centin Cascade have cross lighting. Gallatin county especiallyhas many districts with several hundred thousand dolla
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