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In 1980 there were, in all government schools in the state, 302
students in year 9 and 102 in year 11. The year 11 class of 1980
was the remnant of the year 10 class of 1979. In 1979 there were
192 Aboriginal students in year 10. Thus the 1980 enrolment of
102.in year 11 represents a drop-out rate of 46.87 per cent. Year 12 in
1980 for the whole state had only 22 Aboriginal students.
Thus a study of year 12 students would necessarily have been
highly individualised. For this reason, though these students would
have a more mature point of view, a study of year 12 was reluctantly
rejected in favour of year 11.
Even where there were no Aboriginal students persevering to
year 11, the non-Aboriginal students were presumed to have had
experience of schooling with a visible Aboriginal component.
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All Aboriginal students in the age-grade sample were included
in the study. Every second non-Aboriginal was selected from the
Pt. Augusta schools from year 9 and year 11. Every fourth non-
Aboriginal student was selected from the metropolitan schools from
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year 9 and year 11. !≡
The following numbers are the result of this sampling:
TABLE 2
SURVEY SAMPLE - HIGH SCHOOLS
Non-Aboriginal
Samp1e
Aboriginal
Students
Pt. Augusta High School
Year 9 50
Year 11 28
Augusta Park High School
Year 9 38
Year 11 18
Taperoo High School
Year 9 46
Year 11 45
Salisbury North High School
Year 9 40
Year 11 24
* See pp. 325-326 for a comment on this statistic .
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