That children of parents who own their farms remain longer in school than the children of tenant farmers is shown by a recent survey in Jefferson county, Ga. In the first four grades of school, Children of tenant farmers compose 55.5 per cent of the enrollment. After that, they begin to drop out, and the annual enrollment of children of tenant farmers in the fifth grade is only 35.5 per cent of the whole number. During the four years of high school, children of farm-owning parents make up 82.4 per cent of the student body. The enrollment of children of tenant farmers decreases from 33 per cent in the eighth grade to 3 per cent in the eleventh, or last grade.
--School Life
From page 2 of The Graphic, Nashville, N.C., July 9, 1925
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