The Boy and the School, a Partial Survey of the Public Schools of Fort Dodge, Iowa, August 15, 1917

(1917) The Boy and the School, a Partial Survey of the Public Schools of Fort Dodge, Iowa, August 15, 1917. Iowa State University

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Abstract

The purpose of this survey is to discover: the chief reasons why so many boys leave the schools of our city before completing the course; in what grades the greatest number of boys drop out; what they do after leaving school; what their earning capacity is, and what readjustments should be made in our present courses of study to make them meet, even more fully than they are now doing, the needs of our boys and of the community. THE SURVEY For the purposes of this survey the boys enrolled in the 6th and 7th grades of our city schools during the fall of 1909 were selected as typical groups. These grades were chosen because it was assumed that our compulsory education laws kept the majority of boys in the lower grades. The year 1909 was selected. because the boys remaining in school from the 6th and 7th grades of that year would, at the present time ( February 1916) be enrolled in our high school or would have been graduated. last June.