TABLE III. Data for 4 Cities, etc. Continued.

SPRINGFIELD.

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292 132 79 24

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266 87 56

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959

492

463

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353

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APPENDIX D.

TABULAR PRESENTATION OF THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS AMONG PARENTS OF PUPILS OF INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AGE IN THE SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH GRADES OF GRAMMAR SCHOOLS IN LAWRENCE, LYNN, SPRINGFIELD AND WORCESTER, TO ASCERTAIN THE ATTITUDE OF THE PARENTS TOWARD INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

A special investigation was made in the 4 manufacturing cities of Lynn, Lawrence, Springfield and Worcester, during the summer of 1908, in which many of the parents of the children in the upper grades of the grammar schools were visited personally by special agents appointed by the commission, and asked to express their views in regard to the establishment of a local industrial school. A brief account of this investigation has been given in the body of the report, on page 83.

The families interviewed in each of the 4 cities covered in this investigation are divided into two groups. The first group is contained in Table I., which shows the attitude of those families in which the father's employment could be characterized as a trade; this table also shows the manner in which the technical knowledge necessary to the trade was acquired by the parent.

In Table I., the first column contains the classification into trades of the persons interviewed; the second, third and fourth columns contain the number who had acquired their trade through apprenticeship (second column), through " picking up (third column), and through trade school instruction (fourth

1 Sixth, seventh and eighth grades in Lawrence, there being no ninth grade.

column). The fifth, sixth and seventh columns show the attitude of the persons interviewed towards a local industrial school: column 5, the number favorable to such a school; column 6, the number without interest; and column 7, the number opposed. Column 8 gives the total number of persons interviewed. The ninth, tenth and eleventh columns contain the number of the children of industrial school age in the families interviewed: column 9, the number of boys; column 10, the number of girls; and column 11, the total number of boys and girls. The totals for each column are given at the foot of the column.

The second group, contained in Table II., embraces the remaining families interviewed, in which the fathers' occupations were of a more general nature, although perhaps requiring a specific training or a liberal education. Both tables show the number of boys and girls included in these families of an age suitable to industrial education.

In Table II., the first column contains the classification of the persons interviewed according to callings. The second, third and fourth columns show the attitude of the persons interviewed towards a local industrial school: column 2, the number favorable; column 3, the number without interest; and column 4, the number opposed. Column 5 gives the total number interviewed. The sixth, seventh and eighth columns show the number of children of industrial school age in the families interviewed: column 6, the number of boys; column 7, the number of girls, and column 8, the total number of children. At the foot of each column are given the totals for the column, the total for the corresponding column of Table I., and the sum of these totals for the two tables.

LAWRENCE.

In Lawrence, only those parents and guardians of pupils thirteen years of age and over, in the sixth, seventh and eighth grammar grades in May and June of 1908, that did not expect to attend high school, were visited.

These embraced 467 families, representing 447 boys and 377 girls, a total of 824. Of the entire 467 families, 438, or 93.7 per cent., were found favorable to the establishment of an industrial school for the boys and girls of Lawrence; 27, or 6.3