Excerpt from Laggards in Our Schools: A Study of Retardation and Elimination in City School Systems

The great problem lies in the very much larger class of those who, while they are not defective, do not keep up with their fellows. These, constituting from five to fifty per cent of our school population, can become either failures or successes in life, according to the in¿uences that are brought to bear upon them during their early years.

About this large group we need facts. Are they in their present condition largely because of removable physical dis abilities, such as hypertrophied tonsils or adenoids, defective vision or hearing, or malnutrition? Do they drop behind in their school life because of illness? Are they behind because of late entrance into the schools? To what extent is irregularity of attendance a factor in delayed progress? Ls compulsory labor after school hours an important factor? When do they drop out of school, and for what reasons? Are there any schools that succeed in educating an appreciably larger per cent of these chil dren than do others? If so, how is it done?

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