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Indiana University Studies 



GRADE NUMBER OF CHILDREN 



1 12 



2 12 



3 12 



4 10 



5 9 



6 7 



7 5 



8 6 



First year high school 4 



Kindergarten 1 



Total 78 



The cases of school age and yet not attending school includes 

 children who live in the country too far away from the school- 

 house to be able to reach it ; children who are not even able to 

 walk the short distances to the schools in the city; and chil- 

 dren who could reach school, but are unable to climb the stairs. 



Case M. F. 3,107. This case is a bright little girl with 

 both legs paralyzed as the result of infantile paralysis, who 

 lives directly across the street from a schoolhouse, and always 

 enjoyed going to school enthusiastically. When she reached 

 a certain grade, however, she was obliged with her class to 

 go up and down stairs several times during the day, and in 

 order to do this, the child needed someone to help her each 

 time. At first a little friend or two helped her, but children 

 are thoughtless and unkind, and most of the time they forgot 

 her, and the teachers were all too busy to pay any attention 

 to her pitiful struggles in climbing the stairs. Frequently 

 the child's mother came across the street and helped her; but 

 she did this most unwillingly, and constantly urged the child 

 to stop school. With discouragement from her mother, the 

 child will doubtless soon stop school, whereas if there were a 

 school arrangement whereby she could attend her classes on 

 the ground floor, she could go thru school and be fitted 

 eventually to earn her living more efficiently and more lucra- 

 tively. 



A survey of the number of crippled children in the Indi- 

 ana public schools in April, 1919, brought the estimate of 222 

 cases out of the total 30,508^ children attending school, .7 

 per cent. This percentage indicates not that there are few 

 crippled children, but that only a few of these are able to 



^ Report of Indianapolis Public Grade Schools, March 31, 1919. 



