Box Elder News Journal | 1925-10-06 | Page 3 | Home Co-Operation Should Reduce the Excessive Absence

HOME OPERATION cooperation CO SHOULD REDUCE THE EXCESSIVE ABSENCE A total absence from school of 0 58 53 days during one term of 0 87 days was accumulated by children in 17 small schools in ohio as shown by a survey recently conducted to discover the causes of 0 absence from school and reported in educational research bulletin ohio state university ver sity this Is an average of 0 six and one halt balf days absence tor for each pupil causes assigned tor for absence were unnamed illness 36 per cent specified illness 33 35 per cent work 8 per cent trivial excuses 5 per cent and out of town 5 per cent from a third to a halt of this absence it is estimated could have been avoided by proper operation cooperation co between the home and the schools