SECTION ONE—
ftHO BOYS AHOGffiLS IN NORTH STATE
DROP OUT OF SCHOOL UMNO ISI-IS2
A total of 45,600 North Carolina
boys and gir15—32,371 white and 18,-
129 Negro—dropped out of school dur- 1
ing the school year 1951-62. This num-1
her represented 6 per cent of the to
tal number enrolled. In other words,
out of each 100 pupils enrolled, 95
stayed until the end of the school
year, whereas five dropped out.
There was a record number of drop
outs by white and Negro pupils for
each year from 1930-81 to 1951-62.
The record during the latter part of
this 22-year period is better than that
of the first years of the period. For
some unknown reason there were a
greater number and percentage of,
drop-outs during 1950-51 than there j
were for any year during the last
four years.
A view of the percentage in white
schools will reveal that a larger pro
portion of boys and girls drop out of
high school than of the elementary
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, school. The percentage is more than
• double.
Percentage of drop-outs during
11951-52 ranged from 8 per cent in
1 grade five to 10.2 per cent in the
’ tenth grade. In terms of agers this
1 appears to be about the sixteenth
birthday, or the end of the compul
sory attendance age bracket. Aver
age percentage of drop-outs in the
1 elementary school was 3.9 per cent,
whereas in the high school it was 8.9
per cent.
During the six-year period the per
' centage of drop-outs has decreased 1
per cent in the case of both elemen
itary and high schools. There was a
(better record in the case of high
schools, however, during both 1948-
49 and 1949-50, when the average per
centage of drop-outs was 8.3 per cent.
The pattern of percentage of drop
outs for Negro schools is similar to
that for the white schools—a greater
proportion having dropped out after
they reached high school. The range
in percentage of drop-outs among the
grades for the year 1951-52 was from
2.5 per cent in the fourth grade to
10.1 in the ninth and tenth grades.
Average percentage of drop-outs in
the elementary grades was 3.7, where
as in the high schools the average l
was 9.6 per cent.
Over the six-year period, the trend
is down for the elementary grades as
a whole. For the high school grades
the percentage of drop-outs was lower
at 9.2 per cent in 1949-50, then high
er at ,10.6 per Cent in 1950-51, and 1
per cent lower at 9.3 in 1951-52.
Approximately 10 per cent of the
number of pupils who enroll in grades
9, 10, and 11 drop-out, according to
the latest figures—almost 10 per cent
of the total high school enrollment
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; spinning, fresh-water trolling. It ap
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11 SCIENCE J]l
' - TAKING IT EASY
* by Science Features
| Relaxation in a true sense means
■ doing absolutely nothing. This
i should be the easiest thing in the
world, but psychologists claim that
our modem hectic way of living
makes relaxation very difficult
Many people know of the need
and spend evenings at home under
the impression
that they are
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- M actually they
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mind> nerv ®*
and muscles re*
main in constant
action through
thought and ten
vvl sion. Tension is
the contraction
of a muscle mo
\ •pp tivated by a ,
nerve.
/ Relaxation is really the art of '
dropping tension. ...
A senes of tests, conducted by «
Dr. Edmund Jacobson of the Uni- *
versity of Chicago, showed that
the mind can make muscles work
through thoughts alone. By con
necting electrical instruments to
the muscles of patients who were
lying down with their eyes closed,
he was able to measure the ac
tivity. If told to imagine they were
lifting a weight, the muscles of the
patient became tense with effort.
In the same manner, hate, worry
and other thoughts cause activity,
and spoil relaxation.
Tense people generally do more
work than they have to. They aro
exhausted at the end of a day, not
by their regular chores, but by the
energy used in wasted actions.
Actually the key to relaxation is
economy: don’t waste power, move
ment or thoughts.
poles. Bill Wolf points out that this
almost makes the boat handler more
important than the angler.
The cardinal rule for the oarsmen
in most trolling is: watch the rod tip
At least three-fourths of the lures or
dinarily used in trolling set up a vi
, bration when working properly that is
communicated to the rod tip, and the
man rowing only has to look there to
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"there is a lot of fun to be had fish*
ing a shore line with bass bugs or oth
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or with spinning lures; it also can be
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He must look ahead at all times—
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