Part 2 (1/2)

IV PUPILS

The coe (seven years) at which children shall enter school and the regularity of their attendance With this in mind, it is readily understood that as a rule each class rade each year, until the completion of the school life As a consequence there is but little variation in the ages of pupils doing the work of any certain grade, and the proportion of pupils of nore In order to illustrate definitely, a concrete situation is presented in Table III, which shows the exact conditions existing at a certain time in one of their representative cities

TABLE III [Transcriber note: table split to fit]

Table showing the age of pupils on April 30, 1908, in the several grades, also the nue and year of birth

Grade No

of 6-7 7-8 8-9 9-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 16-17 Classes 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1896 1895 1894 1893 1892 Total 1 134 27 3047 1790 164 10 5038 2 130 33 2730 1795 263 18 4839 3 126 22 2564 1730 319 36 5 2 4678 4 122 33 2287 1620 393 77 14 1 4425 5 115 32 2009 1528 511 136 6 4222 6 105 1 39 1856 1342 569 80 3878 7 90 28 1582 1129 231 3 3003 X[2] 2 20 22 1 43 T[1] 824 27 3080 4542 4556 4323 3996 3841 3537 1962 139 3 30186 Per ct 1908 01 102 151 151 143 132 127 117 65 11 ---- 1907 01 113 153 150 135 131 126 119 62 10 -- --- 1906 01 109 155 146 140 134 125 116 66 08 -- --- 1905 01 112 153 147 140 136 127 119 64 01 -- ---

No of Pupils of Per Cent of Nore

Grade Under Norm Over Under Norm Over 1 27 4837 174 05 960 35 2 33 4525 281 07 935 58 3 22 4294 362 05 919 76 4 33 3907 485 08 883 109 5 32 3537 653 08 838 154 6 31 3198 649 08 822 170 7 28 2801 234 09 911 80 X[2] 42 1 --- 977 23 T[1] 206 27141 2839 Per ct 1908 ---- ---- ---- 07 899 94 1907 ---- ---- ---- 08 909 83 1906 ---- ---- ---- 09 918 73 1905 ---- ---- ---- 11 917 72

1 Primary schools of Kristiana exclusive of schools for abnor special individual attention

This table speaks for itself and needs no explanation It is worthy of note, however, that in coes vary more than two or three years, and that six years is the widest difference in age to be found arade of work

Furthere in no year aggregated as much as ten per cent of the entire number in attendance 101 per cent represents the entire nue--those above plus those below--for the year 1908 During the three fore was still smaller The reduction in nue part to the fact that so rade into the middle school

The same conditions of unifore of seven and having spent five or more years in the primary school, the pupils upon entrance to the enerally twelve or e of those entering will at times be less than twelve years This latter condition is usually due to soe at entrance upon school work In order to follow the age question to nearer its limits ill present Table IV

TABLE IV

Table showing the ages of pupils in State and Communal Secondary Schools

Middle School Gymnasium I II III IV I II III Date Trondhjem(A) 12-1(C) 13-3 14-2 15-6 16-10 17-18 18-1 9-1-06 Kristiansand(A) 12 13-5 14-2 15-2 16-3 17-7 18-3 10-1-00 Kristiansund(B) 12-7 13-5 14-8 15-5 16-2 16-9 18-4 9-1-09 Fredrikkstad(B) 12-7 13-4 14-2 15-2 15-10 16-10 17-8 7-1-08 Lillihammer(B) 12-2 13-2 14 15-3 16 16-6 18-1 7-1-06 Larvik(B) 12-2 13-3 14-2 15-1 15-10 16-10 18-2 8-1-03

[Note A: State secondary school]

[Note B: Coe in years and months]

Attention is called to the step from the last year in the ymnasium In several instances there is considerably less than a year of difference in age This is but another illustration of the tendencies of the sifting that goes on in the natural process of selecting the fittest Those of keenest intellect are the ones who reach a specific requirement in least time and then proceed in the pursuit of advance education The ones sifted out are enerally those whose advance has been ed behind others of their own age The absence of these tends to lower the average age in the succeeding grade Similar conditions in ees of those who enter the university fro the third and final year of the gyhteen, the ones who enter the university the following year in Septee or a little less

In addition to the tables showing the ages of pupils throughout the several grades of preparatory and secondary education, the following one is inserted to show the average age of those in attendance at four of the teachers' serade is not as regular here as in the other schools

TABLE V

Table Showing Age of Pupils in the Teachers' See age[A] in grades

I II III