. Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded. of the progress of allchildren should be kept and provision should be made for the instructionof such children in classes of not more than 15. The children of low men-tality who are passing through the hands of the teacher of today will be- 122 State Board Charities and Corrections come the weak-minded, h
. Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded. of the progress of allchildren should be kept and provision should be made for the instructionof such children in classes of not more than 15. The children of low men-tality who are passing through the hands of the teacher of today will be- 122 State Board Charities and Corrections come the weak-minded, helpless and dangerous adults of tomorrow. Whatare the teachers and the administrators doing to prepare themselves tohandle this problem? Surely it is a duty which they cannot evade if theyare to be educators in a broad and modern interpretation of that word. But after the public schools have located these children and placed themin ungraded classes and trained them as best they can, their work is leftincomplete because the children soon reach an age when the schools cannot hold them any longer and there is no other authority to take chargeof them. Consequently they go out into society to be preyed upon by and be-come a prey to society. It is at this point that the State should assume. FIGURE 5. control. A central governing body, acting under special legislation, shouldtake up the work where the schools leave off. In the light of these facts, then, some such policy as the following seemsadvisable: 1. It is the duty of the public schools to study the problem presented bythe child of low mentality so that the number of feeble-minded children inthe community can be known. 2. It is the duty of the public schools to provide that kind of instructionfor these children which will make them self-supporting citizens if theycan profit by it, and so long as the home gives its share of proper supervision. 3. It is the duty of the public schools to provide instruction for feeble-minded childr
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