1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 571
to 181, in 1919-20, ninety of the latter being graduates of college or
university. Average salary to male teachers in that year was $244;
to female teachers, $152. School property then included sixteen frame
school houses, and six of brick, the whole valued, in county statistics,
at $1,127,501. In addition there is an enrollment of more than 500
in the parochial schools. The school district has an assessed valuation
of $135,000,000, and therefore can always command the funds
needed for its proper administration. The school tax for the year
1919-20, in the Hibbing school district was $.1,129,915.96, and for the
year 1920-21 the tax will be more than $1,400,000.
Mr. C. E. Everett, of the Hibbing school board, in his remarks
before the graduating class of 1920, on June 17, 1920, gave an interesting
and concise review of educational progress in the district. In
part, he said
The Hibbing School District, legally called Independent School District
No. 27, of St. Louis County, covers six townships and eight sections of
another. It is twenty-four miles long at its extreme length, and twelve miles
wide at its widest point. It consists of such locations as Stevenson, Carson
NEW HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE AT NEW HIBBING, FINEST SCHOOL BUILDING IN NORTHERN
MINNESOTA; COST MORE THAN $2,000,000
Lake, Kelly Lake, Kitzville, Mahoning, Pool, Webb, and Addition of Alice, and
Brooklyn, besides the City of Hibbing. It was organized in 1898 as a common
school district, and in 1908 as an independent district. It comprises 224
square miles.
There are seventeen location schools, having * * * from one to ten
rooms. Two school buildings are under construction at the present time,
the grade school, Cobb-Cook building, consisting of twelve rooms, and one
High school and Junior college.
P.uildings, however, do not make a school, and ilibbing is noted for
its corps of instructors. Grade teachers with the same qualifications arc paid
the same salary as High school teachers. Many of our grade teachers are
universit}', as well as normal, graduates. We believe in ol)taining the best
possible fiualified teachers for every department of our schools.
Every student, l)eginning with tlic fourth grade, is taught some form
of manual training, cooking and sewing, physiology, hygiene, and civil government
have been included in the curriculum for next year, beginning with
the seventh grade.
Twelve hundred and fifty children are transported eacii day into the
town schools. The location schools offer work through the third grade.
Above the third grade, the pupils are transported to town schools, where they
enter departmental work. Departmental work gives each pupil an opportunity
to have a sju'cial instructor to each subject. The sixfy-minulc, or
hour ])lan is used. The first thirty minutes is used for recitation, the second
thirty minutes for supervised study. Pujjils are put in classes according to the
mentality of the child, so that each child may get character and pace work
whicli lie is able to do.