Based on the excerpt, the reader can infer that they had a great deal of responsibility and helped support their families. The text discusses how immigrant families often needed their children to drop out of school early during hard times, indicating that children contributed to their family's income. The mention of obtaining full-time working papers at age fourteen further supports this idea of children taking on work responsibilities to help their families.
Read the excerpt from "At School."
Most immigrant families tried to keep their children in school until the age of fourteen, when a youngster could obtain full-time working papers. But that was not always possible. During hard times, kids had to drop out of school early. In the days before World War I, it was an accomplishment to finish grammar school.
Based on this excerpt, what can the reader infer about immigrant children in the early 1900s?
They had a great deal of responsibility and helped support their families.
They were the only members of their family able to obtain employment.
They were not interested in higher education beyond grammar school.
They sometimes left school to help America’s war effort.
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