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Originally Posted by Joykins
I don't know if it's very useful to compare today's high school students to those of 100 years ago. In 1913 only about half the students went on to high school at all. My own grandfather left school at 8th grade.
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I'm not comparing high school students here. I am comparing students period. The grade structure was completely different, but students still were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic.