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Why Youth “DropOut Of School
Albany, .N. Y.—Of 170,466 youngsters who entered the ninth • grade in New York State schools in 1948-49, only 92,764 remained to be graduated from high school. Why did they drop out?
In a special report on "Dropout—the Cause and the Cure,” the-? . Regents Council on Readjustment of High School Education cities a survey of 781 high school principals from 93 per cent of the high schools in the state. The school executives were asked to rate drop! out factors as “most important,” of averagr importance," of little importance” or "unimportant.”
The poll revealed:
1. Forty-one percent thought retardation (of one year or more) a “most important” factor in drop outs.
2. Thirty-seven percent rated low intelligence a “most important” factor. 3. Thirty-four percent rated "dislike of school" a “most important” factor. '
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