Education: Segregation by Marriage?

As parents across the country are learning, school can expand the marriage rate as well as the mind. Student marriages in Dallas are increasing almost twice as fast as the population of the schools. In 1958 the Dallas rate soared 41% to 480 married students (including nine in grade schools), compared to 286 in 1957 and 72 in 1953. Though one somewhat tardy student was aged 27, last year's marrying kind were mainly (66%) aged 17 or younger, with three 13 or younger. Among them, they had 72 children.

In some alarm, the Dallas P.T.A. council last week urged the board...

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