A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

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of 1,092 pupils who were eliminated from four provincial high schools
during the first two years of the course. There are three points in
this table which merit special attention. First, 23.3 per cent of the
total number leaving were not finally eliminated from the educational
system. A portion came back to the same school later, but in most
instances they were transferred to other schools. Many who were
eliminated because of failure to do the work entered other schools. As
a rule these were private schools of the lower grade, those run as
TABLE 35.-PRESENT EMPLOYMENT OF PUPILS ELIMINATED FROM THE FIRST TWO
YEARS OF FOUR PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOLS DURING THE SCHOOL YEARS
1921-22, 1922-23, AND 1923-24.
Bataan -agun -- -l --- —---- --- — Per cent
Bataan Laguna Pangasi- Tayabas with those
Occupation High High inan High High Total Per cent studying,
School School School School deceased!~~~I } excluded
Studying.................. 46 164 38 6 254 23.3.
Teaching.................... 19 91 20 99 229 21.0 28.4
Housekeeping................ 15 42 15 31 103 9.4 12.7
Professional service.......... 1 8 1 2 12 1.1 1.5
Commerce................... 7 26 10 28 71 6.5 8.8
Clerical service............... 15 21 j 3 24 63 5.8 7.8
Military service.............. 3 0 2 1 6.6.7
Farming..................... 19 35 8 29 91 8.3 11.2
Skilled labor................ 5 12 4 6 27 2.5 3.3
Fishing...................... 10 0 0 i 0 10.9 1.2
W orking..................... 14 37 1 3 55 5.0 6.8
Nothing..................... 1 5 2! 7 15 1.4 1.8
Deceased.................... 8 12 4 9 28 2.5..........
Unknown.................... 11 52 22 43 128 11.7 15.8
Total................ 169 505 130 288 1,092 100.0 100.0
business enterprises. Second, 21 per cent of those eliminated are
teaching school. If we exclude from the analysis pupils who have
continued their education elsewhere, as we should, since strictly speaking they have not been eliminated, and if we also exclude the deceased,
the percentage teaching rises to 28.4. This means that the regular
high school, although its curriculum and instructional practices have
not been shaped to this end, is actually functioning as an important
teacher-training institution. Third, only 8.3 per cent of the total, and
but 11.2 per cent of the corrected number, are engaged in farming.
From the studies of the social composition of the high-school population,
we may assume that approximatley 55 per cent of these pupils had
parents engaged in agriculture, yet but slightly over 10 per cent
have returned to the farm. To be sure, a few of the girls who have
married and who are therefore reported as housekeepers are probably