Truancy and non-attendance in the Chicago schools : a study of the social aspects of the compulsory education and child labor legislation of Illinois / by Edith Abbott and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge.

  • Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957.
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[1917], ©1917
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    Settlements, 229, 241, 242, 319, 330, 457. See also Hull-House. Skinner School, 94, 102. Statistics of: absences, 93,95,177-78; child labor, 70, 325-38; Juvenile Protective Association on school cases, 232; parochial schools, 280; population in Chicago, 120, 264-65; prosecutions of parents, 12, 204-6; school attendance, in Chicago, 42, 65, 99-100, 390, 447-54, in Illinois, 40-41, 51, 375; school funds, 2, 375; transfers, IOI, 102, 106; truant officers, 62, 65, 66, 226; visiting teacher’s work in New York, 228. See also Tables. Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, 14. Street trades, 60, 74, 410. Subnormal children, 335. Subnormal rooms, 181, 186, 188, 335: Suspension as a remedy for non- attendance, 43, 49, ceuige 165, 5G: Sweat shops, investigation of, 72, AIS. Tables relating to: absences, 97, 98, $O7, 015, Tio, 1iOs Causes Ol, 1206, 179; age and grade of truant boys, 152, 181; age and school certifi- cates, 307; child wage-earners, 326-27; economic status of fam- ilies, 125, 158; elementary schools, cost of maintenance, 174; enrol- ment in all Chicago schools, 217, in nine schools, 96, in parochial schools, 452-54, in public schools, 448-49, 452-54, in two schools, 115; immigrant children, attend- ance of, 270, number manifested, 27-727 uvenile Court. truant children brought into, 150, 153, 155, 181; language of home, 122, 123; nativity of parents, 121; non-attendance, reasons for, 120; Parental School, 153,156,158, 169, 174, 184, 185, 190; parental status of truants, 126, 159; physical and 471 mental condition of truant boys, 184, 185; prosecutions and warn- ing notices, 202; school census, 217; transferred children, 107; truant officers, children reported LO OO}s ELUan iss 150s 1521 50, livjloqie Ron Sue Colo Taxation for support of education. See School tax. Tennyson School, 94, 102. Thomas School, 94, 102. Transfer system as a factor in non- attendance, IoI-13. Truancy: and dependency and de- linquency, 189-99; and mental and physical defects of school children, 177-88; definition of, 148; extent of, 89-100, 396-00; important factors in problem of, 158; in the Chicago suburbs and other parts of Illinois, 245-63; need of state agency for, 263; prosecution of defiant parents in case of (see Parents, prosecution of). Truant: from comfortable home, 160; habitual, and schoolroom in- corrigible, 148-64; provision for, outside of Chicago, 245; record- keeping of, 252. ‘Pruant Cir). '20, 145.7150, 15350270, 205-6, 350, 457. Truant officers, 12, 13, 62, 65, 66, 82, 0G, 246.7 100.2202, 224,220.) 227; 269, 421; in outlying towns of [llinoiss 245, 240-51, 250-02, 270: Truant rooms, 172-73, 219. Truant schools. See Schools, pa- rental. United Charities of Chicago, 11, 131-35, 158, 234-40, 277-79, 291, 397; 457- United States Bureau of Education, PAE United States Commissioner-General of Immigration, 265, 351.