V.-Diagram showing the value of school property per capita of population-being a graphic repre sentation of the first part of Table 11. ditures were brought down to the lowest point; at such a time expenses for building are among the first lopped off, along with useless or extravagant expenses of a miscellaneous character. The State superintendent of Illinois in 1878, while calling for economy, holds up to view the fact that a seventy-five dollar schoolhouse had been fitted up with lightning-rods at an expense of sixty-five dollars. The statistics of school property in the South have been very defective, but the main features of the situation outlined in Table 11 and Diagram V are essentially correct. There may be observed in that section (1) a steady gain in school property over the population; and (2) a loss when compared to the average attendance, until within a few years, during which the value of property per capita of average attendance has undergone a decided rise. The indications are that the South is entering upon a period of schoolhouse building, especially in the cities. TEACHERS. TABLE 12.-Number of different teachers in the United States each year from 1870 to 1889, classified by sex. TABLE 13.-Showing the number of male teachers in every 100 teachers; i. e., the percentage of teachers who were men. VI-Diagram showing the percentage of male teachers, being a graphic representation of the data given in Table 13. Sex of teachers.-Diagram VI sufficiently explains itself. The part of the diagram below each divisional line may be considered as representing the male teachers of such division at any epoch, and the part above, up to the 100 line, the female teachers. The almost continuous displacement of male teachers since 1879 is apparent. This movement is found continued on iuto 1889, when, for the first time in any State, the proportion of male teachers falls below 10 per cent. in Massachusetts (8.9 per cent.). EXPENDITURE. TABLE 14.-Expenditure for common schools in the United States, 1870 to 1889. TABLE 15.-The total school expenditure compared with the total population and with the average attendance. Expended for common schools per Expended for common schools per cap. capita of the population. ita of average attendance. |