The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-02-10
STATISTICS ENLIGHTENING
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, Supt. Of Schools,
Gives Figures to Refute Statements
Which Have Recently Been Made in
the City by Public Speakers.

There is kept in the Office of the
superintendent of schools of Kenosha
q card list of all children in all schools.
This system was installed in the fall of
1913. When a child withdraws for any
reason, his card is taken out Of the
regular file and put into another
A recent count has been made of the
cards in this latter file, and it is
thought that the facts discovered will
be of public interest.
Total number withdrawals from
school since September, 1913, 1923.
Of these, Cos or 500, left town. Most
of these moved away with their parents;
a few went to state or other in
stitutions
Twenty-nine of the total number
We're under the compulsory age and
have left this year. Fourteen have died
since September, 1913. This leaves 615
Withdrawals to account for otherwise.
OF these, 459 were from the public and
1856 from the parochial schools. Of the
615 children who are the subject of
this special report, the following facts
are of interest:
Ages of 615 children when they left
school, IA years and under Is, total,
200; boys, SO; girls, 1877; Is years and
under 16, 230; boys, 1873; girls, 81; 16
years and under II, total, 1872; boys, so;
girls, so; II years and under Is, total,
SO; boys, q; girls, IL; is years and
under 10, total 10; boys, 8; girls, IL.
Under IA years, sickness the cause,
URLS 2.
Totals, boys 307, girls 30S.
The school advancement of the 615
children who left school:
One or more terms in high school,
boys rs, girls 46; total, 1923; or 20&o
# all.
Eighth grade, boys 90, girls 90; total,
1911, or 1870 of all seventh grade; boys
80, girls GA, total 103 or 17a6 of all
sixth grade; boys SO, girls 81, total 1O1,
or 1870 of all fifth grade; boys AZ, girls
81, total 76, or 1870 of all under fifth
grade, % These were over age, re-
tarded children, or those who were i'll,
and were, therefore, allowed to with
draw without completing the fifth
grade.
What the 615 children who left did
after leaving school,:
~ Fourteen and fifteen year old
c ildren who took out permits to work,
149 boys and So girls; total, 237, or 1870
of all.
(2) Sixteen year old or older chill
dren who went to work, boys LOG, girls
25; total 131, or 21@6 of all.
(3) Those who left school to help at
home, SO boys and 166 girls; total 202,
or 1920 of ALL According to the pres
ent law, these children, if under Is
years of age, are obliged to go to the
continuation school four hours week,
rs are the children with working papers.
ca Those leaving on account of ill
health, ! boy, 10 girls.
(5) Those who were taken into the
sll-day continuation school without
working papers, IA.
(6) Girls engaged in domestic SER
ice, IA.
(7 Girls who have married since
leaving school, 8. "a
The most significant thing revealed
by this study is that over 5000 of the
children who withdrew have had school
ing above the seventh grade, 500 of
them above the sixth grade, and that
only about 1870 of them left with the
minimum educational requirement. The
question may be asked what proportion
of children in those grades leave. This
study reveals the fact that the children
Withdrawing from the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades of the public schools
each of the two years involved, were
25@o of those attending these grades at
that time. Also, that all Withdrawals
were 40 of the total enrolment of all
grades, this figure being found true for
tie parochial schools as well as the pub-
Tic schools.
Whlle ltEs true that child who has
completed only the eighth grade can
hardly be said to be educated, still he
is much better off than he would have
been without those extra years of
schooling He has the foundation from
which he may reach for more complete
'ducation, as evening school and cor
respondence study may offer oppor-
4unitv
There comes time in the life of
very man when he feels himself either
pushed ahead or held back by reason of
MS possession of or lack of a general
education. He cannot escape this fact
no matter what his occupation may be
or what his financial circumstances
way be.
Every man gains Or loses in proper