Jobs And Families Most Important

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31782, 12 September 1968, Page 15

Jobs And Families Most Important

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LONDON, Se pt. 11. Aiming at jobs they would enjoy and ’keing fond of their families rated far higher among Britain's young school-leavers than clothes or pop music, the “Daily Mail” reported. The newspaper was c'fuoting a Government survey in which more than 4000 L5-year-old school-leavers in 149 English and Welsh school were interviewed. They destroyed th«t myth that the vast majority are street-corner lounger’s who “don’t care,” the newspaper said. One of the main disclosures is that most of theso young people strongly suppiort lessons that can help them to succeed in later life. I

They genuinely lvalue sub-

jects like English and mathematics even if they are not very good at them. But they do not care much for art and culture and what the schools call “mindbroadening” subjects or activities.

One of the gloomier aspects of the report was the evidence that many of the 15-year-olds “give up,” often quite early in their secondary school years, because they felt they were marked as failures who would never pass examinations and win essential paper qualifications, the newspaper said.

Parents were also interviewed. Nearly two out of three favoured changes which had taken place in their children’s schools since World War 11, while a third complained that things had changed for the worse, especially In discipline.