108 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



is reached at different ages. Some cease 

 to grow mentally at the end of the 3rd and 

 4th grade. Others go on to the 6th and 

 7th grade. When their mental growth 

 ceases, it is useless to continue them in 

 school and it is a burden to the taxpayers. 

 Besides, none of those who pay 90% of our 

 New York City's Public School expendi- 

 tures which, for the year ending July 15, 

 1915, amounted to $44,970,857.28, send 

 their children to our Public Schools. See 

 p. 385, of "Board of Education Report, 

 for year ending July 31, 1915." 



I can breed a horse that will trot as 

 fast as a two-year-old as he ever will, but 

 he is of no account. I want a horse to go 

 on developing. So I explain the 50% fail- 

 ures in the eight grades of the grammar 

 schools on this basis. It is largely due to 

 the fact that the brain power of the sub- 

 normals carries them up to a certain grade, 

 and then it ceases because it is full grown. 

 It does not pay the State to try and edu- 

 cate these 50% of subnormals beyond that 

 age, or beyond the grade at which their 

 brain power has reached its limit. 



