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Show REPORT OF COMMISSION% OF INDIAW AFFAIRS 7 the normal age-grade standard, This has been chiefly due to failure to secure the early entrence of children into school, although this condition has been remedied to a large extent within the past few years due to persistent effort of the bureau. Intelligence tests conducted have shown an intelligence quotient of 100 for Indian children, as com-pared with 114 for white, which difference would probably lessen somewhat with increase of education. It is clearly apparent; how-ever, that differences exist between diierent Indian tribes or.com- I munities as to capacity for assimilation of knowledge or tramm Therefore, any plan of schooling, theoret~calo r vocatl?nal, sh? 2d not he rigid but adjusted to the capacities and tendencies of wen '. cases. Related somewhat to this question the cornpanson by grades of enrollment in Government schools given in the report of the com-missioner for 1928, and included in the report of the Secretarf fO' 1928, page 57, is continued through the fiscal year 1929, as fol ows I special includes upils in sanatorium schwls, punils in ungraded elssses, and a lew attending secondary schools or junior wfqe. 1826 1821 1828 1828 1926 lsn ---- Beginners ........ 3 eSs 3,016 40% 3,122 Orsde IX ........ 792 094 Grade I .......... i m 0 3 150 3.103 2982 Grade X ......... 492 588 Orsde I1 ......... i 9 6 3 d240 3 128 2 814 arade XI ........ 2.32 380 Orade 111 ........ 3 167 3 134 $240 3:103 arade XU ....... 159 212 Grade IV ........ 3:211 $ 207 3,10 3,216 Specid l .................. 107 Grade V ......... 2, 636 ZEUS 3 102 2 713 Junlor Collwe ............................ (iradevl ........ 2,133 2 488 a883 d730 ---- Grade VII ....... 1.628 1:8% l SDl 2,198 14,901 26,712 Grade VIII ...... 1,130 1,379 1:589 1,881 The familiar litations imposed b legislation of expenditures per provides : pupil per annum have been repealed TI y act of March 2, 1929, whlch That the provision in theact-of April 30,1908 (36 Stat, L. p. 72), and all other acts imposing a limit upon the per capita cost in Indian boarding schools, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. There is now ground for the hope that reasonably liberal appropria-tions sdcient for the operation of efficient institutions may be hereafter secured. With reference to the physical condition of school plants, it should be said that many of these are old and the buildings unsuitable or in a state of disrepair and modern improvements are lacking. Consider-able new construction has been accomplished but a host of poor buildings remain. It has appeared advisable to expend funds for enlargement of some schools m order to provide additional facilities for children who have been without school opportunities. However, with the expectation that the State public schools will absorb grad-ually tm increasing number of Indian children, it is believed that any general program of enlargement may cease. Then expenditures for material improvements may be confined to necessary repair or reconstruction at those schools whose continued operation will be essential for some years to come. EMPLOYMENT FOR INDIANS Referring further to the matter of Indian employment, this con-cerns both the school graduate and the adult Indian. The aim usually is a permanent occupation for the young man or woman but iazs ---- I,%@ 862 458 289 183 27,718 18% 1,641 818 472 318 ........ 1% 21,860 |