One might think also of time extension,
night school, summer school, correspondence courses, and tutoring as
possible factors deserving to be included here in the list of remedies
for failures made. The matter of time extension has already been partly
treated in Chapter IV, while the facts for the other agencies mentioned
are rather uncertain and difficult to trace on the records. However,
they all tend to eventuate finally in one of the methods noted below.
THE DISPOSITION MADE OF THE SCHOOL FAILURES
Repeat School Exam. Contin. Both
Total No. the Final or Regents' Discon. or No Repeat
Failures Subject Spec. Exam's. Substitution Repet. and
or Exam. Exam.
8348 B. 3695 821 1333 2471 259 231
9612 G. 5001 1025 1752 1929 249 344
Per Cent
of Total 48.4 10.3 17.2 24.5 2.8 3.2
It is obvious from these percentages that school practice puts an
inclusive faith in the repetition of the subject, as 48.4 per cent of
all the failures are referred to this one remedy for the purpose of
being rectified, although one school made practically no use of this
means (see section 5 of this chapter). We shall proceed to find how
effectively it operates and how much this faith is warranted by the
results.
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