Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.