The high school failures

by F. P. O'Brien

The above distribution of [Table III] is repeated here in [Table IV], so far as it relates to the failing graduates only.

TABLE IV

A DISTRIBUTION OF THE FAILING PUPILS WHO GRADUATE, ACCORDING TO
THE NUMBER OF FAILURES PER PUPIL IN EACH SEMESTER

NO. OF FAILURES	SEMESTERS										TOTALS
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1 B.	110	131	137	150	162	139	120	118	19	11	1097
G.	136	142	181	200	197	180	121	89	20	3	1269
					50%							2366
2 B.	34	49	61	69	61	75	47	28	15	3	442
G.	49	64	63	86	81	73	81	62	10	5	574
					53.2%							1016
3 B.	10	10	14	18	12	17	27	17	4	1	130
G.	16	9	14	13	27	43	30	20	16	3	191
					67.6%							321
4 B.	3	2	2	3	4	8	6	5	0	. .	33
G.	2	3	6	6	5	16	9	12	3	. .	62
					71.6%							95
5 B.	. .	. .	0	2	1	0	3	0	. .	. .	6
G.	. .	. .	1	0	0	4	1	2	. .	. .	8
					78.6%							14
6 B.	. .	. .	. .	. .	. .	1	1	. .	. .	. .	2
G.	. .	. .	. .	. .	0	0	. .	. .	. .	0
					100%							2
Tot. B.	157	192	214	237	240	240	204	163	48	15	1710
G.	203	218	265	305	310	316	242	185	49	11	2104
					3814

This table reads similarly to [Table III]. There is not the element of continuous dropping out to be considered, as in [Table III], until after the sixth semester is passed, for no pupils graduate in less than three years. The failures represented in this table number 5,823. This same distribution will be the subject of further comment later on. It discloses some facts that Table [III] tends to conceal, for instance, that the greater number of graduating pupils who have 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 failures in a semester are found after the end of the second year.

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4. DISTRIBUTION OF THE FAILURES IN REFERENCE
TO THE SUBJECTS IN WHICH THEY OCCUR

The following tabulation of failures will show how they were shared by both boys and girls in each of the school subjects which provided the failures here listed.

NUMBER OF FAILURES DISTRIBUTED BY SCHOOL SUBJECTS

Total	Math.	Eng.	Latin	Ger.	Fr.	Hist.	Sci.	Bus. Subj's.	Span. or Greek
B. 8348	2015	1555	1523	917	473	571	850	424	20
G. 9612	2300	1424	1833	812	588	1036	1013	593	13
Per Cent of Total	24.1	16.5	18.7	9.6	5.9	8.9	10.3	5.6	.2