The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
supt. Mary D. Bradford Shows
Many Features Needed
in Schools of City
FOLLOW NATIONAL SUGGESTION
Many Glasses, of Students Have Not
Been Cared for by the School Sys-
TEN i'll Kenosha-Have Medical In
spection Here.

TEN in Kenosha-Have Medical In
spection Here.
(By Supt. Mary D. Bradford)
The following communication from
the U. S, Bureau of Education, recent
ly received at the Superintendent S of
fee may interest the public by show
ing the various kinds of schools that
are being maintained in different parts
of the country, to better meet the needs
of special classes of children. 1t is
clear bit Of evidence of the movement
now on to get away from mass teach
ing and to adapt schools and teaching
to the individual.
Washington, D. G. Mar. 20, 1911.
Dear Sir:
viii you kindly answer the follow
ing questions and return this sheet to
me at once for the use of a committee
which is preparing for the Bureau Of
Education Bulletin on Provision for
Exceptional Children in the Public
Schools?
Have special classes been formed in
your city under the following or other
names (answer yes or no)
1. Delinquent.
2. Backward.
3. Defective.
4. Blind or semi blind.
5. Deaf or semi deaf.
6. Open air.
&. For foreigners-day schools.
s. For foreigners--evening schools.
8. Vocational.
10. Continuation.
IL. Parental or residential.
-. Epileptic.
13. For late-entering children.
Have you any provision for:
l. Medical inspection for contagious
and infectious diseases.
2. Physical examination for defects.
3. Dental clinics.
Any reports or documents you may
have and any rules, regulations, or by
laws adopted by your Board Of Educa-
ton with reference to such special feat
ures of your school work, will be great
ly appreciated.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) Elmer Ellsworth Brown,
Commissioner.
| was obliged to say emo" to all
but one Of these different schools en-
umerated. [ was glad to be able to
say eyes" to the question 4olating
to Medical Inspection and Examination
for Defects. / hope for the time when
dental clinics will be established, and
when Kenosha will have a special
schoo! for its delinquent children nam
ed first above, and now found in many
cities. This would relieve a number Of
teachers of the one or two who take
more Of their energies than the forty
other normal children. 1t is thought
that a carefully taken school census
will reveal the fact that there are en-.
ough deaf children in Kenosha and vic
unity to entitle Kenosha to a school for
that class. Something also should be
done for certain defective children who
are incapable of learning by the ord
mary methods used for normal child
rem, and who need special attention.
Where no such provision is made, it
IS sometimes found necessary to set
such children out of the regular day
schools, for the reason that they are
able to make little or no advanccment,~
and, in some instances become very
troublesome to the teacher and other
pupils, Yet these children can be
taught and they should certainly not
be on the streets uncared for
Another very useful sort Of school,
not enumerated in the government list,
but including 10, and IA above, is the
ungraded school, Wausau has two of
them which furnish the best illustra.
ton Of their usefulness that has come
to my attention.
The average attendance in each of
these is kept at about twelve pupils,
and the most skillful teacher is assign
ed to the work. AS these pupils are of
all grades the teaching is individual,
not class teaching.
Three sorts of children are sent to
these schools:
First, the strong, bright, gifted ones,
who are capable of going faster than
the average, and can therefore make
up time.
Second, those who have lost time by
illness or irregularity and want to
catch up.
Third, those dull in one branch, who,
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