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Show ONE OF EVERY FOUR PERSONS TO ENTER SCHOOL Approximately 33,000,000 hoys, girls and adult citizens, or one of every four persons in our country, are turning schoolward this year. About 23,000,000 " will attend the kindergarten or lementnry schools. Six million will enter high school, and about 1,000,000 young men. and women will enter college. About 3,000,000 are enrolled in the emergency education classes, evening schools and special schools of various vari-ous kinds. Approximately 1,018,000 teachers will assume the responsibility re-sponsibility this year for the instruction of America's pupils and students in both public and private institutions of learning. learn-ing. Other data issued by the U. S. office of education at Washington reveal that the rural school term will average 161 days; the city terms will average 182 days. Based on reports re-ports for previous years, each rural pupil will be absent about 26 days, and each city pupil, about 25 days. Every day there are, on the average, 4,000,00.0 children absent from school. This appalling record of absence from school is being carefully care-fully studied to find the causes and to suggest remedies. The annual cost of public education is $25.61 per citizen, or a cost to each of only 7 cents a day. Add a cent and a half to the 7 cents, and the sum would pay the cost of instructing the 3,361,000 persons enrolled in private schools. For nearly ten years the number of illiterates of this country has stood at about 4,000,000. It seems difficult to materially reduce this figure, despite the amount of money being expended for education. o |