Report of a Year's Work on Defectives in a Public School

were selected for retarded work and not only for truancy or other incorrigible habits. All classes from the first to the eighth grades were given the privilege of placing children in the class. Only the first, second or third grades had children, however, whom it was decided were retarded enough to need special instruction. These children were reported not only as being stupid, but "queer". It is hard to define exactly what was meant by this term but it did mean that the child to whom it was applied was singled out from the other children. Other children not placed in the class were dull and slow but still normal, while each of these children seemed to have a personality differing from the