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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ers of minority groups, forwhom education has long been anundependable key to opportunity. • This particular work-study plan isan example of one way a Bell Sys-tem Company, working with a k)calhigh school, has helped head off thedropout disaster—in this case by en-abling the students to get both edu-cation and work experience. The Problem High school dropouts have been calledsocial dynamite and an American ca-lamity. According to one economist,they are the real minority group of to-morrow. The plight of the dropoutshould be of concern to all of us. Certainly, the dropout is of concern toany businessman. Todays youth are to-morrows employment market and tomor-rows customers. Whether they are well-trained, well-qualified, and capable ofself-support, or whether they are unem-ployed and possibly tax-supported is ofobvious importance. The high school dropout is not a newphenomenon. As a percentage of the totalstudent population, dropouts have de-creased. But the total school population
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. . . potential iliopoias about the importance of staying in school, emphasizing his point with achart which relates the amount of education to the amount of expected monthly income. 23 aTT has, in the idiom, exploded; thus, thenumber of dropouts has greatly in-creased. And the problem has increasedtherewith. Staying in school is, after all, a meansto an end—not an end in itself. A fewyears ago, the school dropout could findwork because unskilled jobs were plenti-ful. Times have changed. Application ofnew knowledge to industrial processes isremaking the economy of the UnitedStates. The depth and speed of this eco-nomic change are having heavy impacton the labor force and on the need foreducation. The real calamity about dropouts isthat they are creating a vast pool of notonly unemployed but mostly unemploy-able young people. In a country that des-perately needs skilled, well-trained work-ers, this waste of undeveloped talent isa grave problem as well as a personaltragedy to the youn

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