Problems of Rural Negro High School Seniors on the Eastern Shore of Maryland: A Consideration for Guidance

Abstract

A study of the problems of rural Negro high school seniors represents a phase of a general investigation concerned with the dynamics that condition the vocational aspirations and adjustments of rural youth. Education of today's youth should be concerned with providing the experiences that will help them develop into happy and useful citizens. Subsequent adjustment to the complexities of life is dependent upon the ability of the individual to meet problems with insight and understanding, resulting in a plan of action that will make proper adjustment possible. Guidance of today's youth, therefore, should be concerned with the extent that such problems may condition present and subsequent adjustment. It is, the opinion of the writer that the problems of youth bear a direct relationship to their aspirations and act to condition t h e i r vocational choices as well as present adjustments to those phases of life which make for happy citizenship. Problems reflect needs, and the needs'of youth cannot be properly provided for unless systematic and objective studies are made to reveal these needs. Several writers have stressed the importance of identifying problems of high school pupils. Cheyney1 points out that the pupils have in-school and post-school problems that have not been