HIAL AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN
MINNESOTA, 1918
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Number of parochial and private schools 307
Number of pupils enrolled 38,853
Number of teachers 1,359
Number of schools using English only 94
Number of bilingual schools in which the teaching is in
English and German 195
English and Bohemian 1
English and Dutch 1
English and French 4
English and Norwegian 1
English and Polish 10
English and Danish 1
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Total 213
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The Isanti County school superintendent reports for 1915-16:[27]

The poorest schools in the county are in communities where there
are private schools in connection with a church. The children
attend these for years at a time, and when they return to the
public schools find themselves behind their former companions. We
wish arrangements might be made so that these schools could not
teach the branches unless the teachers were as well equipped as the
public-school teachers and that the children could be sent to them
only at the confirmation age for two years.

The Martin County superintendent reports:[28]

Parochial schools should be required to report to the county
superintendent the names of their teachers, length of term, etc.
The teachers should be required to make monthly reports and be
subject to the same supervision of inspection as those of public
schools. Their certification should also be subject to state
approval. Failing this, the pupils should be required to attend the
public schools for at least eight full years, or until they
complete the regular eighth-grade work.

Near St. Cloud, Minnesota, there is a Slovenian colony of about fifty to
sixty families. Near by there is a much smaller German colony with a German
parochial school in which the teacher, at the time of the writer's visit,
was a German and the teaching language was German. Quite a number of the
Slovenian families sent their children to this school, where they were
Germanized instead of Amer