Iron County Record | 1944-04-13 | Page 9 | School Absences Up

l&lli' School Absences lip Wartime conditions between December. De-cember. 1941, and December, 1942. have left their mark on pupil fct-tendance fct-tendance at both the elementary and high school levels. The number of absences recorded during a ore-month ore-month period In 1942 was higher than tne number for the corresponding correspond-ing month in 1941 in approximately 70 per cent of the school system! reporting in a recent poll- The amount of the increase in aggregate number of days' absence was approximately ap-proximately 15 per cent for both the elementary and high school grades.