CHAPTER VI

SCHOLARSHIPS

The problem of the large number of high school students who are em¬
ployed in part-time work is not solved by the development of em¬
ployment offices in high schools for the purpose of placing students
in positions to prevent their exploitation. The appointment of
special members of the staffs of high schools to advise with students
who must be in part self-supporting is not a solution of the problem.
Both methods, together with co-operation with the present ad¬
ministrative organization of the co-operative classes in New York,
would assist student's who are working while attending school. The
problem of the working student, however, is more fundamental than
either of the above solutions would seem to indicate.

A study of the number of students who are working, the kind of
work they are doing, their remuneration, and the number of hours
they are employed outside of the school leads one to the question.
Is not the work done in order to secure funds actually handicapping
the student in his course to such an extent as to render him of less
value to society? The present study has not answered that question,
nor are any data at hand which will answer it. The investigations
previously described indicate that students working outside of school
hours are doing generally as efficient school work as those not working.
As has already been suggested this may be due to the fact that the
boys in high school who are supporting themselves either wholly
or in part are a selected group. The data already presented indicate
that there is more ehmination among the students who are working
outside of school hours than among those who are not working. It
may be that the marks working students secure are not a measure of
their real abihty. These marks are the result of work carried on in
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