TABLE 4.-Secondary and higher schools for the negro race (excluding public high Teachers. Location. Name of school. Religious denomination. White. Negro. Total. Elemen tary. CHAPTER XII. STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. In this chapter will be found the statistics of that class of institutions formerly reported by this bureau as reform schools. The superintendents or directors of many of these institutions insist that their schools should not be classed as reformatories, for the reason that their pupils are not committed on account of criminal acts. Of the 117 schools reporting, only about 20 still retain the word "reformatory" in the name. In nearly all the institutions the pupils are received pursuant to legal commitment. Some are dependent and ill-treated children rescued from criminal surroundings. It is easier to teach a boy to work and start him on the road to an honest livelihood than it is to reform him after the first criminal act is committed. In the list of 117 schools will be found a few not supported by public funds and a few receiving State aid to supplement private funds. The increased value of these institutions to the State is indicated in the following summary showing their progress in five years: Progress of State industrial schools in five years. |