BACKWARD AND DEFICIENT CHILDREN.
SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS URGED. Dunedin, Sept. 21. The urgent need of a special school to give special attention to hackward children in their own and other children’s interest, was brought before the Education Board by Doctor McCredy, school medical officer, who stated that a fair number of mentally deficient children in the Dunedin schools were classed as backward. They retarded the noimal children. As most of these deficients would have to support themselves they should be eo nipped as well as possible. Sound educational instruction would prevent their appearance later in the courts, institutions and mental hospitals. In many cases, too, these children exercised a bad influence ?n younger normal children with whom they generally associatesd with in school. He suggested a special school. The matter was referred to a committee for reports.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 239, 21 September 1922, Page 5
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137BACKWARD AND DEFICIENT CHILDREN. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 239, 21 September 1922, Page 5
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