Classification and Education of Afflicted Children

as "bad," "incorrigible," "defective," etc., have been ignored and these different types of children forced to work in the same treadmill under a single teacher. To be specific, I recall a small school set aside for the incorrigibles, truants and bad boys, from the neighboring schools in the district. It was a sort of half-way house between the regular school and the truant school. There I found various types of boys shoulder to shoulder in the same class. [Feebleminded children, underfed boys, criminal types, mentally dwarfed children, and the usual "bad" boys worked side by side. The dangers of such a lack of classification need hardly be emphasized. One or two vigorous criminal types, a few bad or