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hich school attendance is required by law. Of these 106,000 children approximately 37,000 boys and 38,000 girls were enrolled in the public schools. Exact data as

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en years old. Between 14 and 15 over 30 per cent leave school. The loss from 16 to 17 is appr

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mes of the children were visited. The total number of cases studied was 117, of whom 89 were girls. It was found that one-third of these children had graduated and gone on to high school. Another third h

as they were less than 16 years of age. Among those who dropped out and we

hat most of them do not leave on account of financial necessity. This conclusion is substantiated by the testimony of the girls and t

ion of shops and factories to detect violations of the child labor laws, and above all to such a reform of the schooling opportunit

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y of the printing industry. Educationally the printing trades rank higher than most other factory occupations, yet the average journeyman printer possesses less than a complete elementary education. Composing-room employees, such as compositors, linotypers, stonemen, proof-readers, etc., undoubtedly stand at the hea

th reported the sixth grade as the last completed before leaving school, and nearly half had dropped out before completing the elementary course. Less than seven per cent of the boys engaged in industrial pursuits had received any high school training and only 42 per cent had got beyond the seventh gra

pations do not remain in school beyond the end of the compulsory attendance period, and in addition over half fail to complete even the elementary co