Excerpt from A Glance at Some European and American Vocational Schools: For Children From Twelve to Sixteen Yeas of Age The reasons that led to a study of the opportunities for vocational training offered to children from twelve to sixteen years of age are of so great significance and to the general public so little known, that a consideration of them is given first by way of introduction to this paper. We have regarded our overcrowded high schools and the rapidly growing number of our grammar schools with true American pride in our educational advantages, and have remained in ignorance of the fact that sixty-nine and one-half per cent, of all the children who enter the lower grades of our grammar schools in Connecticut have disappeared by the end of the sixth grade. Where are they? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.