New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1918, Page 3

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OF CHILDREN DEFECTIVE, (Continued from First Page) her attention to | defectiveness and that have prove come to this mental in part: Care of Defective Children, “When those who were working on the problems of the mentally defectivey or feebleminded suggested carrying the work into the public schools they greeted with the statement, But we have no feebleminded children said, were in our schools.’ Unfortunately there 4re still many people who belleve there are no feebleminded chil- ren in their community and who have no conception of the scriousness of the situation. They think of a feebleminded person as one who is so conspicnously foallsh that he is known throughout the neighborhood as ‘crazy Jim' or some such name. In the neighborhood of two of our special classes in New Haven there is just \such a person. The defective children in those classes can tell you all about | her; even they call her *Crazy Rachel’. her hair is bleached, her cheeks are highly painted, her shoes so worn that there i{s almost nothing left of them, and her clothes, someone's cast- offs, are ridulously unsuitable. She wanders aimlessly up the streot fixing her hair and hat at every mirror in the windows and grinning foolishly, while the children hoot and laugh at “her. No one questions that she is mentally defective. “Then there Is little Gracfe, seven years old, who understands nothing that is said to her, who is kept quiet In school, as far as her feet are con- cerned, by the expedient of tieing her to the leg of the piano. We have yet to find a way to prevent her making horrible noises and she destroys every- thing within her reach. he makes such an impression on those who see her that they always remember her, and I have been told that the picture of her as she stands, feet wide apart, head down, mouth open, with no spark of intelligence in her face, a pathetic drooling creature, haunts ~them for weeks. No one questions that she s feeblemindod. “In Jennle we can almost sce Gracle grown older. When she first came to the special class, she cllmbed on the steam pipes lke a squirrel, and could wiggle out from the strongest rope connected with the plano leg. Her favorite occupation was dancing up and down, making noises that | sounded like curses, then rolling | around the floor. Her mother was dead and there was no one to really care for her. Jennie did not care in tho least whether she had any clothes on or not. Unless constantly watched, she would go to the stove, put her hand in the fire or turn on the stop- k. After four vears in the special coe claes she actually learned to sit quiet- 1y in the schoalroom: she has not suf. ficlent mentality to learn anything fur~ ther. When she was twelve years old, her father realized that he was un- able to protect her. She was often seenion the street surrounded by big boys who were molesting her. In about a year, Jenny was admitted to Lakeville, Children Are Classified. “Jenny, Gracie, Crazy Rachel, and other conspicuously foolish individuals are thase the average citizen has In mind when you mention the mentally defective. They could mever earn their own lving; they constitute a pathetic menace to the community, but the fact that they are commonly known to be feebleminded somewhat lessens the danger . They are not the ones who constitute the vital prablems. At the risk of repeating what you _conform to the life of the when they are in the class-room With | i,rteq but he stole $6.00 from a boy normal children or whom they are i, the station and got onto the train. outsldefiot achool ipierefth ety Bitollyn i ridgeport dalipoliceman fsaw, thim compete with their normal fellows | coj . : along the street and handling that we see their inability to manage |, oneyv in such a foollsh fashion that their affairs or themselves With 0= |y, 51rested him. He gave the wrong dinary prudence. =~ farv. for|8ddress and it was some days before The teacher knows that Mary, for yg waq sent back to his mother. This instance, does not campete on equal boy was finally admitted to Lakeville. terms with the rest of the class; that | (0% FS1 0 o T o G0 Ut ther she does not seem to grasp the work of 2 'la tall broadshouldered young man e e e o ol wnemiTiwas snrsfxiHadi nieyeckseen Sl L P that |y fore, walked Into my room and N conf ipline | : 2’;"L‘lil‘;e“r;‘:;f"goi‘;mnt&“l‘ecw;]y:“t“‘; :2 | asked if he might have a work ticket still and not ta talk: and the teacher |10 was David. ~Regular meals and inllanleHort tol dofher dutyl byl every |=leepinadiimproyed Shis) phyvsicalfaps child fn the room spends her suength | DEATANCE fsodating puCen umen and energy in trying to make Mary g =0 4 vy mentality had not behave herself and her time in trying i de- to teach her the work of the grade. |Veloped. Through some influence I the average citizen dealing with these | family had been able to obtain his Saaal h et iine darelold o Eelea=elandfncrafihe v sixteen the teacher believes that Marv could | vears old demanding a work ticket. do this if she wanted ta; she does not | Before he went to Lakeville he was Tealize that Me limited intelligence | Shunned by everyone; when he re- is the cause of all the trouble; that|turned his appearance had improved che is absolutely Incapable of doing|With no development of his mental- s a greater men I had a vision of a spe of the next gener- ity so that he wa ce than before. ! cial class teacher what is demanded of her. | “It is these defective children, usually not recognized as such, who take so much more than their shave |ation looking after his ten defective of the teacher’'s time and strength. | children. Fortunately for himself They start in the lower grades, per- |and for the community he was killed haps repeating each grade: they may | by a freight train last winter. eventually grasp most of the grade| “Minnie sat in the regular SO ) ”‘:’1 Sounh o fifth grade. | oor gome years and glared at " the Ehen 21t denendaionl crcumsang > | teacher if she was asked to do any- When transferred cleven to vea special whether they stay in that vicinity vear after year until the law allows them | tBins: to go to work at sixteen, or whether | ©ld She they are pushed one. They are often | ) = pushed on because they outgrow the | (Continued On furniture and because a teacher can't| === tand them for more than a year. Last | yvear we found a boy in the seventh | was a eventh Page). grade; he was thirteen vears old with | a mental age of seven or eight. | He had been in schoal eight| vears had learned only what normal | children learn in two or three y : He was arrested flve times for stealing and for immorality, The last time, it occurred to some- one that he might not be responsible for his actions, and this proved true. He was feeble-minded; his mental sge was 7. He had reached the seventh grade, although he could i barely do second grade work; he was | mischievous and disorderly in school. Special Classes Needed. “It is most unfair to the normal | children and to the teachers to allow sU children to remain in the regular classroom Many teachers say ‘My room Is so different since you tool that child.” The teacher spends her valuable time trying to teach them to school- room and to teach them the work of the grades. It robs the normal chil- dren of their rightful time and it robs the teacher of her strength and vitality, accomplishing nothing but the aggravation and unhappiness of the defective children. ! “To relieve his condition and to glve our normal children the best possible training, we should have special classes for all the defective children. We hear much criticism of | the curriculum in the public schools. Apparently nothing Is right, and we need to start all over again. Whether the criticism is justified or not, we | obviously cannot throw out our whole | ® educational system until someone bo- | comes sufficiently constructive to give | us a working scheme in place of the | present one. We can however vastly | improve our present system by re- i moving mentally defective children from the regular classrooms, where they work untold harm to our future citizens mentally and morally. Fur- | thermore, in this instance we have a | working basis for correcting the evil-— | by establishing special classes I want to tell you of some of the children ) we have taken from the regular class- | room. | “First, there 1s Hyman. He is the prettiest child, looks about five years old, has fair skin, pink cheeks, brown eyes, dark hair, as attractive as can be. He is really nine years old, how ever, with a mental age of three, and his innocence is only in his appear- ance. Whenever he happens to feel like going to school, he wanders in, an hour or so late, but quite often the lure of the dump heap and garbage pail is too much for him, and he doesn’t get to school at all. Look- ing out of the window one day I saw two small feet waving wildly from one of those familiar green rubbish cans; Hyman had investigated too thorough- Iy and had Janded head first in the can. He steals books and library | cards from the other children and tears them to pleces. He brings his | cholce treasures to school every day; | a box of clothespins or flat irons from | a neighbor's back step; a child’s hat | that pleases him; toys, especlally | bicycles and tricycles. He enjoys par- | ticularly collecting the mall that the postman has just distributed. He is always well supplied wiht money, per- | haps five cents, more likely one dollar. He amuses himself on the way home from school by chasing little girls and hitting them; it is great fun to hear them cry. He runs the streets, lives in garbage pails and steals from morning until night. His most serl- | ous adventurs was choking his baby | sister to death, Yet to look at Hyman | when he is sufficiently clean to war- rant inspection, you +would never dream that ho was mentally defective. “Then thers is David. Fe was in the regular classroom until he was | thirteen years old. He choked little | children in the lines and made himself such a general nufsance that someone finally wondered if he might be fec- know by heart, I am going to give the classic definition of a high-grade bleminded. And he was; his mental | room | ' Joseph Roche, Courant Correspon- dent, to Serve With Naval Resorve. Joseph W. Roche of 49 Union reet, for the past five years local correspondent of the Hartford Cour- ant, has enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve and will report for active dut hortly. Mr. Roche was graduated from the local High school with the class of 1911 and shortly thereafter entered ncwspaper work as assistant to H. V Camp, then local correspondent of the Hartford paper. At Mr. Camp's resignation Mr. Roche succeeded him as head of the local office and since | that time has been covering the City El'ull beat. REFUSES TO BUY LIBE Employes of the Connecticut com- pany have responded in an excellent manner to the purchase of Liberty Bonds. It is said that every member with one exception has subscribed for the bonds. The holdout is re rted as the same man who was ar- rested t summer by the Federal ithorities, but later released. | CROSSED OCEAN TWICE. | After crossing the ocean twice, ] Clerkin of the United States n has been granted a furlough he is spending at his home | here. Clerkin has the ranking of | gun pointer on one of the battle- ships of the navy. Martin Horwitz, nd Charles Witkin are Ing a few days furlough mes vy v'hich a in the city. feebleminded person, a moron as he |age was five. He was Il nnurishsd.' is called. ‘One who is capable of earn- | dirty, his clothes were in rags. His | CITY ITEMS ing his own living under favarable|mother was eager to do her best for | Ve MR AT] conditions or circumstances, but is|the boy, but if she wanted to see him | Arthur Butcher, who was sent to uncapable because of mental defect she went to the school, hoping he |the aviation training school in Boston sting from birth or from an early [ might be there. He slept in cellars i Jast week, spent the week-ond at his of competing on equal terms With | or on doorsteps, stole his meals from | home here i his normal fellows or of managing | bakery carts, and went to school only e himselt and his affairs with ordinary | slightly more often than he went | ‘ cOmmunication from the Italian prudence.’” These children are often | home. The teacher removed layers @ So.Crnment to Caesar Nerl, of this absolutely normal in appearance. AS|of dirt and searched his pockets; he ¥ informs him of the fact that visitors see them at work in a special | usually carried matches which he ¢ WOUld soon be called for service room, ta quote the definition, ‘wor scratched back and forth on a con- | . the [Italian — army but for ing under favorable circumstances,’ it |venient surface when he wasn't busy, | (1€ fact that his father is a citi- is difficult for them to belleve that|and he was always well supplied with | 2¢% ©of the United States. Neri the children are feebleminded and |tobacco. His appearance was disgust- | S born in Ttaly and came to this {they often say, ‘But they are aljng he had very bad habits and his Wwhen he was younsg. bright looking group of children,’ or!gpeech w unintelligibie He was and Mrs. Frank Saunders of 5 ‘they must bave some brains to be|ghunned by everyone. His varlous ex. | Main street entertained able to do this wark.” They have in- | capades came to a climax in a trip to friends at a dinner party Sund: deed ‘brains enough’ to earn their|priggeport. He jumped onto a trol. ! NiDE, the occasion being the fourth | | living under favorable circumstances, | jay as the children were going j&nniversary of their ma H they are often normal in appearance, | nome from school and went to the | = frequently able to talk fluently. It is station. He had no money when he NEWSPAP 'Y BOND | spend- | the all-night service was inauguratc ing week. It s absolutely without equal in Hartford for individ at the office, Postmaster W. F. De- charm and value. We have put forth a supreme effort o pre | laney, fgned Kingsbury to this to the public of Connecticut, the finest Misses' suits to be found this berth. season. 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