An Examination of High School Failures as Revealed in the Literature of the Subject in Order to Determine the Nature, Extent, Causes and Remedies Page: 10
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fo srn up, it say be concluded! {1} that grades which,
students receive are admittedly inadequate measures of suc-
cess or failure in education as a whole? (2) that such fail-
ures assuredly are detrimental to the morale and sense of
personal security of an individual! and (3) that they give
him a poor opinion of the school system and of educators
in general and contribute to his disrespect for democracy.
Up ,to.this point, concentration has been on the per-
sonal ham wrought through an indiscriminate failure system,
■let another aspect of this problem now he considered. Fail-
ure in high school means more' than mere pedagogic or per-
sonal failure. It indicates social waste in two ways
First, there'is the direct waste of scarce teachers and ma-
terials, fhis is serious in view of the fact that there is
still a great scarcity of personnel and materials as com-
pared with the demand. Is the second place, it represents
waste of young people, potential leaders la the community
of tomorrow. It also represents waste of social and eco-
nomic resources of the community. It is regrettable that
figures are not available as to the cost in dollars and
cents of failures in high school* There is no doubt that
the financial cost of retaining students in the same grade
i a burden to the legislative budget and to the taxpayer.
Spears, in commenting on the 3*997 failures in the San
Francisco high schools for the year 19*7 * estimates the
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Mann, Ralph. An Examination of High School Failures as Revealed in the Literature of the Subject in Order to Determine the Nature, Extent, Causes and Remedies, thesis, 1950; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130213/m1/16/?rotate=90: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .