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Comment by defrost | Hacker News Reader

10% of primary school students went on to high school?

10% of high school aged people attended a high school?

90% of students enrolled in high school never bothered to attend or "worked from home"?

It's 1912. Most likely they worked in a factory.

The other 90% of students worked in a factory?

Wouldn't that make them factory workers rather than students though?

30% still working on farms.

How does that statement help in parsing:

    According to the top comment, only about 10% of students attended high school at the time.

Were, say, 95% of all students in primary school with another 5% in university or night school courses?