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The Three U's-Part I
School Drop-Outs Present Serious Problem in Field of Unemployment
Editor's not: Our nation's
youngsters are in dup trou
ble. On million ol thm be
tween 16 and 25 are adrift on
our city streets. Most are
school "drop-outs" - unschool
ed, unskilled, unemployed.
Their plight is desperate,
their future bleak. How did
this explosive situation arise?
What can be done to help
this growing horde for whom
we cannot find jobs and
whose ranks are expected to
swell to 7.500,000 by 1970?
By PAUL C. TULL1ER
Senior Editor, World Book
Year Book
You might find a group of
them aimlessly clustered in
a neighborhood drugstore, or
hanging around a street cor
ner gloomily smoking cigar
ettes. Some sit idly on the
front steps of cheerless houses
thinking, and dreaming, and
weaving hopeless hopes.
They're young - mostly in
their late teens or early 20s.
Yet the problem they face is
serious enough to make them
old even before they become
adults, regardless of where
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The Family Council
Editor's nole: The Family Council consists or a Judfe, a
Ehychlatrist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor,
ach article Is a summary of a family dlsaereement prosented to the
Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor,
encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by
airs. Alma Denny. (Copyright by, General Features Corp.)
Mm. N. R. - She does no
studying. How can she be
learning anything?
Joan R. - School is a joke.
The teachers don't teach.
Mr. N. H. - My 15-year-old
daughter is a high school
sophomore. I can't understand
how she can get passing marks
without studying. When I
. went to school, homework
took me three hours a day.
How can she know history, for
example, If she never opens
a book? I see her look up a
few French words, call up
her friend for the geometry
answers, and call it a day. I
want her to work harder and
stop wasting her time.
Joan R. - I work hard on
something that interests me.
My mother knows I'm not
lazy when it comes to prepar
ing for a party or sewing cur
tains for our home. But in
school it's just hours of bore
dom and waiting for the bell
to ring. Some of my teachers
are just substitutes and admit
they're only one lesson ahead
of us. The others don't bother
looking at our homework.
With cramming, I get by.
The Council: How sad for
Joan to settle for just "getting
by" in school! It's like passing
up a trip-around-the-world for
a subway ride. Mrs. R.'s justi
fiable alarm should speed her
into P.T.A. circles whence
help not only cometh, but
usually begineth. The most
important approach is,
through inspired and inspir
ing teachers. Too many, says
Superintendent of Schools
E. J. Anderson of Wayland,
Mass. (who has pioneered in
successful "team teaching"
change-over), see teaching
merely as a way to earn a
living and chalk off the days
until retirement. Only teach
ers whose subject excites
them-who have a sense of
"mission" in trying to answer
the needs of floundering kids
like Joan-can take the bore
dom out of precious school
days. Joan may yet be lucky to
encounter one such. Until then
she should concentrate on full
time schooling, getting the
maximum from the instructor
up front, and filling in with
after-school enrichment at
museums, libraries, and "Y"
classes.
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they live, or how they spend
their lives. Bignt now ineir
problem is particularly acute,
and threatening to become
worse.
What is all this about? Who
are these young people? What
Is their problem?
Unpleasant Facts
Prepare yourself for some
unpleasant facts. The United
States prides itself on Its edu
cational system - it spent an
estimated $18 billion on edu
cation in 1961-62 - and on its
related ability to provide jobs
for its youth. Yet today, 1
million young Americans be
tween 16 and 25 are looking
for jobs. Surprising as it may
seem, these young people
make up the biggest single
age group of unemployed
workers in the United States.
Unemployment in their brack
et is at least twice as high,
and rising at a faster rate,
than in older age groups.
The future of these young
sters, according to former
Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
Goldberg is "potentially the
most dangerous social condi
tion in America today." Their
plight, says Robert Taber,
a noted Philadelphia educa
tor, "is the great American
tragedy of our time."
What can be done about it?
There is no simple answer,
but answers are being sought.
In some places, there are
heartening signs of progress.
Generally, however, the pic
ture is grim. Two principal
factors are responsible. As
society becomes more and
more highly mechanized, cer
tain jobs disappear. The re
maining jobs, as well as the
new ones that are created, re
quire an increasing degree of
skill. That is one factor in the
picture. The second is a hu
man problem. ;
Almost all of the youngsters
included in the current legion
of the unemployed are so
called "dropouts," students
who left school before they
earned a diploma. Theirs are
the faces that were missing
from the high school year
books. If present predictions hold
true, however, their number
will increase in the years
ahead. -As matters stand to
day, 40 out of every 100
youngsters in the United
States either fail to attend
high school or drop out be
fore they have finished. If
this trend continues, says
Abraham Ribicoff, former
Secretary of Health, Educa
tion, and Welfare, the num
ber of unschooled, unskilled.
and unemployed youths will
have soared-to 7,500,000 by
1970. Of these, some 2,500,-
000 will not even have finish
ed grammer school. They will
represent, roughly, 30 per
cent of all the young workers
who are expected to enter
the labor market between
1960 and 1970.
Unschooled, these teen
agers will become part of an
adult world in which educa
tion is a "must." Unskilled,
they will struggle to find em
ployment in a labor market
in which jobs often disappear
at the click of a switch.
Operators Displaced
In New York City alone,
automatic elevators have al
ready displaced an estimated
40,000 operators. In one large
automobile plant, a manufac
turing operation that used to
require 39 workers and 39
machines is now handled by
only nine workers and nine
machines.
In Detroit, factory jobs for
merly filled by 16 and 17-year-olds
have been decreas
ing at the rate of 2,000 a year
since 1990. Between 1955 and
1960, 56 out of every 100 such
jobs ceased to exist. The
mass production industries no
longer absorb the large num
ber of unskilled or semi
skilled workers they once
did.
Nor is the "blue collar"
workman the only one whose
job is threatened. Some types
of "white collar" positions
are disappearing, too, largely
because of office automation.
Altogether, 1,500,000 office
jobs vanished between 1953
and 1960. Of the jobs avail
able today, according to a re
liable source, only a small
number - four out of every
100 - do not require an education.
Squaeaa Play
The problem the unemploy
ed dropout faces, then, be
comes painfully clear. He is
caught in a squeeze play. Un
able to qualify for the skill
ed jobs that are open, the
supply of unskilled Jobs he
might be able to fill is drying
up
There Is another Irony. "Be
cause of . , . automation,
and . . . technical devices,"
says one authority, "profes
sional and technical jobs are
going to grow by 3 million
or about 40 per cent - during
this decade. Jobs in the cleri
cal and sales fields will grow
by about 3,700,000. Skilled
occupations are expected to
provide 2 million additional
jobs by 1970." Implicit is the
fact that these 8,700,000 new
jobs would more than absorb
the 7,500,000 youngsters,
who, because they will lack
skills and schooling, will
know want in the midst of
plenty.
Education requirements for
any kind of a job are higher
today than ever before. Ac
cording to most personnel di
rectors, they will rise a notch
or two each year - from here
on out. "I venture to predict,"
says one, "that within the
next 10 years, post-high
school education for two
years - at a junior college or
technical institute - will re
place the high school diploma
as a basic requirement."
Today, a high school diplo
ma is the least most employ
ers will accept for even a low
level job. One Midwestern
firm has an ironclad rule that
even its mail sorters and mes
senger boys be 'high school
graduates. Many firms are not
satisfied with just a diploma,
either. They carefully check
the graduate's school record
and insist on better-than-aver-age
grades before hiring.
Few companies will pay any
attention to a dropout. For
them, he is an "untouchable."
The personnel director of a
large steel plant in Pennsyl
vania says: "We want younng
sters who are capable of
climbing from the factory
floor into an office seat, or
into our sales force. And we
don't want them to stop there.
Somewhere among them - we
like to believe - is a future
company president." He
pauses, and his lips tighten.
"If our company's executives
are to come from among to
day's youngsters, why should
we hire those whose school
records show they were Inter
ested only in getting by?"
Naxtl Other obstacles that
hinder ih untmployad youth
in his starch for a job.
Reprinted from iht 1963
World Book Year Book.
Copyright 1963 by Field En
terprise! Educational Corporation,
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