SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
Rise In Young People’s Interests Suggested
A plea for the raising of the school leaving age was made at the break-up ceremony of St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream, yesterday, by the Rector, the Rev. Father J. Dowling, S.M., M.A. Father Dowling, reviewing the need for additions to the school buildings made during the year to meet the demands of the boarding scholars, said the day scholars this year had been 16 compared with 37 in 1936. This decrease, which had its good side, was accounted for by the demand for the labour of young people. “While we rejoice,” he said, “that employment for youths is now plentiful, we cannot help feeling regret that so many boys leave school at a very early age. The only cheap labour available at the present time is the labour of the young, and some employees know well hpw to take toll of it. Far too many boys are leaving the secondary schools in their first or second year. Many of these are working at high pressure during the day and are then attending classes at night. The sooner this is remedied by the raising of the school-leaving age the better it will be for those young people.”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 8
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