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and the pupils of how he had thrashed worse boys than were 
in the present school and of how he could do it again. 
The children were tested by the Stanford Revised Scale. 
Out of 19 children, 15 were feeble-minded. This includes 4 
who were not tested but who were of such a low grade that 
for the purposes of the survey it was a waste of time to do 
formal testing. The remaining 4 were average children, but 
compared with the rest of the school they were shining lights. 
There was a total enrollment of 37 pupils but the attendance 
was irregular. According to the teacher, some of the pupils 
had been out all year. Not only was there a large number 
of children who were feeble-minded, but there was none who 
was more than average in intelligence. One child had an I.Q. 
of 96 and the others were all somewhere in 70. Where the 
stock is uniformly poor as it is in this place, it looks like an 
uphill job for any teacher or social worker. 
The other school in Township 12 in which were found so 
many defectives was the Davis Creek. There 6 children out 
of a total of 12 tested were feeble-minded. The other 6 were 
not average, 5 of them having I.Q. somewhere in 70 and 1 
in 80. There was an enrollment of 25 but, as in Chestnut 
Ridge, the attendance was very irregular. The general tone 
of the school was higher than that of 4he former. The chil- 
dren did not have that dull, apathetic appearance which was 
the rule in the former school. 
Another school where there is a large number of feeble- 
minded and backward children is that on Ripple Creek in 
Township 11. It will be remembered from the general de- 
scription of Township 11 that this school is in a small, rough 
section of the township which was early settled by the com- 
mon ancestor of almost every family now living in the com- 
munity. There were 14 children in the school, and of that 
number, 11 were tested. Six of these were feeble-minded and 
4 were borderline. 
In the Moccasin School of this same township is to be found 
another large group of defectives. There 12 out of 18 were 
tested and 6 of that number were decidedly feeble-minded. 
These children were not all related as is the case in many of 
the schools where there is a large number of defectives, but 
they belong to several groups. Two of them are related to 
the Temple family and the others belong to the Sanders and 
