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Taperoo High School was chosen for two reasons:
It was a city high school ..with a relatively high proportion
of Aboriginal enrolments. In 1980 the school had the second
largest metropolitan enrolments in absolute numbers, 16 students,
1.84 per cent of its total enrolment.
Taperoo High School was located in the area noted by Galeɪ as
having a high concentration of Aboriginal people as far back as
1965.
Salisbury North High School was selected for the study since it was
in an area which made provision, like Augusta Park High School,
for Aboriginal people to opt for Aboriginal housing, which offered
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the possibility of moving away from kinship groupings into a less
’visible’ situation.
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In the secondary schools, year 9 and year 11 students were
selected to take part in the study for the following reasons:
Year 9 students attend school under compulsion, and should
therefore contain a cross-section of students, Aboriginal and non-
Aboriginal .
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Year 11 students have, in general, passed the age for compulsory
attendance at school. It may be posited, that, for whatever reason,
parents and/or students believe that schooling meets some felt
need.
In the case of Aboriginal students,the absolute numbers attending
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school for the state are relatively small . The drop-out rate after
year 10 is high.
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