The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-04
CA|R0|TE EXPLAINS
Why So Many Pupils Leave School
Before Completing Their High
School Course.
Illinois School News


! Some Inquiry among a number OF
| Illinois high schools warrants the
statement that about forty per cent of
the freshmen pupil. fail in doing the
work satisfactorily or quit school at
the end or during the first high school
year Then, about twelve per cent of
those who do enter the second or
sophomore year fail or leave 10 go 10
work. This reduction is repeated in the
jnnior year Finally, in the senior year
only thirty.iive per cent of the original
freshmen class ar seniors and in at
the finish. In other words one Of every
three entering the high school course
completes it,
Some OF the causes advanced by
those Interviewed are worth c0nsidera-
ton, and are herewith catalogued
a. The freshman year brings To-
geiher pupils from different schools
uneqnally prepared in their work.
b. These pupils have been accus-
toned TO one teacher; and the divided
or department work of the high school
causes some studies 10 be neglected
for others.
C. The pupils who fail in any part
OF their work become indifferent To
further progress and are encouraged
by their parents 10 become small wage
earners and drop school.
d. Failure of parents and teachers
TO arouse interest in the individual
and cultivate purpose strong enough |
to win in school work or endure to the |
end.
@. The commercial Spirir of parents |
has great deal to do with keeping !
children out of choo or completing a |
high school course.
f. Another deplorable cause in The
for social affairs TO the ex.
,lusion of any thing else-permitted
)r encouraged by parents.
g. The first years of high school
life are the change years, physically.
which means social and mental
'hangeS in which school work suffers
n. Too many parents are ignorant
VI the value of high school education
md offer no encouragement to chill.
Iren TO remain in school.
!. In every walk of life the ma
GRITTY of people ar CUTTERS" "The
hid is father 10 the man" The law
+ the survival of the fttest applies TO d.,
ehooi life as much = ITO any other.
Remedies.
Among the remedies offered the fol-
wing have merit:
a. Educate for higher ideals. School
'ork in the high school should be
lade yital-ayoiding the merely rou :
ne.
b. Train children 10 assume re- :
c. Get the parents TO know that
he high school is the college of the
eopls and rhaI the foundation Of
leir ehildrens' success may he laid
erein
d. the teacher must be able to in J
resi- and hold the boys and girls.
ere teachers able 10 reach and hold
'ery pupil the causes generality A.,
ould disappear.
e. The getting together of Of par.
rs aud teachers in a common cause !.
nh a common faiJh. sublime enough =
overcome all OF The enumerated =
uses. =
T. Better and more uniform home :.
'ihIng ana grade Preparation that :,
ows purpose and working habits.
2. Above everything the right o.,
'eher for the hey or the girl-one ~
le 10 have and 20 hold
. viii be observed that no attempt :.
been made 10 arrange the remedy ~
correspond With The cause. There il -.
grouping OF each without attempt at q.
ical order. We
inT say Isn't the subject worth Il.
ueht? UT
TAYLOR G. CLENDENEN. -
Sept. City schools. Cairo. Ill. -