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Dr. Melton Wright, Superintendent p£ Public Schq<^s ir Frederick <«Ointy indicated that, “Research* shows that early childhood education programs can raise the intelligence level and the potential for success of pre-school children.” Yet few school ^divisions in Virginia support a kindergarten program. In a recent Virginia Education Association Conference on. the dropout, Dr. Daniel Schreiber, Associate Superintendent ol Schools in New York, said that, “the dropout tends to have a poor attendance record. His attendance starts to fall down as early as grade 7. Usually his oldei brothers and sisters were dropouts • so too were his parents. He does not read up tc grade level. Studies show that not more than one-third of the dropouts are discipline problems Yet he usually feels alienated, anci increases that by self-alienating himself from the school and environment.”
During the same conference Elmer Tarrall, Assistant Superintendent of Schools ir Virginia Beach, expressed the view that other reasons for th« school-dropout included consistent failure to achieve ir regular school work, overt antagonism to teachers and tht principal, a marked disinterest ir school subjects coupled with t feeling of not belonging, a narrow curriculum and in some instance! coming from an unhappy famil) situation.
Educators are divided concerning the root causes foi dropouts. In i book that Dar Schreiber recently edited, callec “A Profile of the Schoo Dropout”, the view is expresser
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