. 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. ILLUSTRATION No. 2. 118 State Board Charities and Corrections and was still in the 2B grade at the age of 15 years. It had been in school5% years and had completed only iy2 years of work: OEPT vPJri/i I WOA&& c 07 tW&tfJlL 0 & cujt £ O. 12 /2 Co jS /3 /3 3 £ Form 30-7-27 s 2 t«4- /-£ ;
. 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. ILLUSTRATION No. 2. 118 State Board Charities and Corrections and was still in the 2B grade at the age of 15 years. It had been in school5% years and had completed only iy2 years of work: OEPT vPJri/i I WOA&& c 07 tW&tfJlL 0 & cujt £ O. 12 /2 Co jS /3 /3 3 £ Form 30-7-27 s 2 t«4- /-£ ;v From these records the following points should be observed: 1. The constant repetition of the same grade kills a childs interest. 2. Instruction for children who cannot profit from it more readily isnot economical and business-like. 3. The presence of such children in a class-room hinders the progressof children who can profit from the instruction of the grade. The next means of determining the mental ability of children is throughmental and physical tests. One of these tests which is widely used is theBinet-Simon Measuring Scale. This test, in the hands of a skillful examiner,is a helpful aid in determining a childs mental ability. Figure 1 is a graphical representation of the results from the Binet-SimonScale applied to all the children in the first four years of three fairly rep-resentative schools in the city of Richmond. The significant thing shownin this figure is that 19 children or were 4 or more ye
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