Retardation and Elimination in the Schools of Mauch Chunk Township

Over 10,000,000 children leave school to go into the trades without a complete common school education. There are 32,000,000 breadwinners in the United States, 2,000,000 of whom do brain work, and the remainder, 30,000,000, are employed in the manual labor trades. According to this table only 17 per cent of the pupils who enter the first grade of the elementary school remain to complete the work of the eight grades; 6.25 per cent of these enter the high school, and only a lamentably small portion, 1.25 per cent of