The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . ated through corrective exercise,taken with the body held in good position. Obviously it wouldbe foolish to consider that a child had an acceptable standardof posture if he could not take his gymnastic exercise in a way thatwould insure his proper development. Therefore the mainte-nance of good posture during exercise was added, making alto-gether a triple test which has proved a thoroughly reasonable,and very effective, standard to which every child in a school,barring extreme pathological c
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . ated through corrective exercise,taken with the body held in good position. Obviously it wouldbe foolish to consider that a child had an acceptable standardof posture if he could not take his gymnastic exercise in a way thatwould insure his proper development. Therefore the mainte-nance of good posture during exercise was added, making alto-gether a triple test which has proved a thoroughly reasonable,and very effective, standard to which every child in a school,barring extreme pathological cases, should be able to conform. This triple test for posture is, then, the standardization of the i84 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN subject for the individuaL It is explained more fully in asucceeding chapter. Every child who passes this test is entitledto a passing mark on posture, even though he may sometimesfluctuate in his carriage; and those children who are habituallyin good posture for standing or sitting should have more than apassing mark, being given the highest credit for the Fig. 70. — The molding influence of the elementary school. The difference between marking children for posture accordingto this test, or by other methods, should be clearly two other methods most commonly used are (i) to give ageneral estimate based on a general observation, more or lessexpert; or (2) to give a numerical credit for different details, asfive points for good carriage of the head, five for the shoulders,etc. The author is convinced that the general judgment ofthe posture of a class^ even by the expert, is neither adequate nor EFFICIENCY METHODS FOR SCHOOL TRAINING 185 accurate. For example, after witnessing a demonstration ofthe triple test with a class of children, one keen observer — aphysical training specialist — said of the group of children whohad failed on the test, but who had been put in good position andwere marching out of the room in it
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