SYLLABUS OP CIVIC PROBLEMS. 45 



Field Work. 



(Get acquainted with a cliild tliat lias left tlie grammar scliool to go to work. 

 Make record of tlie following data concerning the child.) 



Survey of Child Worker. 



Name of child Address 



Age Years Months 



Father living Mother living 



Parents separated 



Father's occupation 



Child's occupation 



Number of hours of work per day 



Child's daily wage 



Does the child go to day school? Night school? 



What grade has it reached in school? 



How did it get along in its studies? 



Why did it leave school? 



Has it any mental defects? If so, what? 



Has it any physical defects? Ifso, Avhat? 



What are the child's needs? 



What is the child's recreation? 



What are the needs of the family? 



How long has the child worked at this occupation? 



What other occupations has it followed? 



What effect has the occupation had on the child's character? 



Child worker. Inquiries at school. 



1. Learn the names of boys and girls who have left school during the year. 



2. Learn reasons for leaving. 



3. Where are they now? 



4. What are they doing? 



ij. What were the child's habits when in school? 



a. Learn easily or slowly? 



b. Industrious or lazy? 



6. What physical defects did the child have? 



7. What bad habits did the child have? 



References. 



Pupils' Readings. 



Spargo, J. '-The Bitter Cry of the Children." 



Survey, 27 : 1281— Chute, C. L. "The Cost of Cranberry Sauce." 



Survey, 27 : 1375-7 — Sumner, M. B. "What the Government Found." 



American City, 12 : 23-4 — Dwight, Helen C. "The Menace of Street Trading by 



Children." 

 Exhibit Handbook, Pamphlet No. 241 — National Child Labor Committee. 

 Survey, 33 : 303 — "Child Workers in North Carolina Cotton Mills." 

 Survey, 33 : 435 — "Child Scavengers." 



Survey, 33 : 342 — Lovejoy, O. R. "Jersey Cranberry Bogs." 



Child Labor Bulletin, Vol. 3 : 42-45 — Newman, Pauline. "Child Labor a Menace." 

 Child Labor Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1: 52-56— Bleuk, J. H. "The Child in the 



Street." 

 Child Labor Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1 : 50-59— Clopper, E. N. "Why Overlook the 



Street Worker?" 

 Child Labor Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1 : 153-1.5S — Bremer, H. M. "Agricultural Work 



and School Attendance." 

 Child Labor Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 2 : 7— "The Whitest Gift of All." 

 Ihid., Vol. 3, No. 2 : 31— "Blossom Time." 

 Ibid., Vol. 3, No. 2: 49— "Story of a Medicine Bottle." Also in Child Labor, 



Vol. 2, No. 2. 



