PERCENTAGES OF PUPILS FAILING, BY SEMESTERS
SEMESTERS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Paterson 17.8 18.4 16.7 15.0 15.6 11.6 9.4 7.4
Wood 24.5 14.5 29.5 30.0 31.0 7.9 16.2 ..
OBrien (p. 41) 11.5 13.9 14.5 15.1 14.5 15.3 12.1 9.9
The above series of percentages tend to agree at least in showing
little or no decline in the percentages of failure for the first five
or six semesters in school.
Another tendency to conceal important features in relation to the facts
of school failures may be found in the grouping together of
non-continuous and continuous subjects, the latter of which are
generally required. F.W. Johnson found in the University of Chicago
High School[31] that the percentage of failures by successive years
indicated little or no decrease for mathematics and for English (which
were 3- and 4-year subjects respectively). The figures were based on
the records for a period of two years. In regard to St. Paul, it was
possible to compute similar information from the data which were
available.[32] The percentages of failure are presented separately in
each case for Latin, German, and French, not more than two years of
which are required in the schools referred to above. A contrast is thus
presented that is both interesting and suggestive.
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