Thirty-three and three-tenths per cent of the repeated grades are
repeated failures.
Few of the repeaters take reduced schedules.
The repeaters with an extra schedule are more successful in each of the
passing grades, and have 11.4 per cent less failures than repeaters
with a normal or reduced schedule.
In the later subjects of the same kind, after failure and repetition,
the unsuccessful grades are 2.2 per cent higher than for a similar
situation without any repetition.
The grades in new work for repeaters are markedly superior to those in
the repeated subjects, for the same semester.
As the number of identical repetitions are increased (as high as six),
the percentage of final failure rapidly rises.
The emphasis placed on repetition is excessive, and the faith displayed
in it by school practice is unwarranted by the facts.
Relatively few of the failing pupils who continue in school discontinue
the subject or substitute another after failure.
School examinations are employed for 10.3 per cent of the failures,
with 37.5 per cent of success on the attempts.
The Regents' examinations are employed for 17.2 per cent of the
failures, of which 72.8 per cent succeed in passing, and in most cases
immediately after the school failure.
Of those who continue the subject of failure without any repetition 52
per cent get passing grades.
No form of school compensation can be considered as adequate which does
not adapt the treatment to the kind and cause of the malady, as
manifested by the failure symptoms.
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