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Special New York Schools Seen
Helpful To Disturbed Children
Editor's note: In the oast -vear
tfew York City public schools
lave been terrorized by a wave of
juvenile delinquency that included
.andalism and attacks on students
ind teachers alike. In March, hr
ied authorities suspended the most
langerons. the most incorrigible of
:he trouble-makers, and the Board
f Education set up special schools
For them so-called "700" schools
rhere they would get strict super
vision and special care.
This is the first of three dis
patches in which a reporter who
took a first-hand look at the "J00"
schools tells what they are like and
what they are accomplishing.
By PATRICIA McCORMACK
United Press International
New York (UPI) Take
360 of the worst students in
the nation's largest school sys
tem, boys and girls so disturb
ed that no school or teacher
can reach them.
Place them in emergency
schools, set up on a crash
basis because the law says
you must at least try to edu
cate children, even if they
cannot possibly fit into nor
mal school situations.
Add seasoned teachers, so
cial workers, psychologists,
psychiatrists. Put only eight
to ten children in one class.
Mix in large doses of indi
vidual attention, trust and spe
cial care.
And then give the kids a
chance to succeed.
Common Occurences
New York City's Board of
Education did this last March
with 300 boys and 60 girls sus
pended from their regular
schools as the wildest and
most dangerous denizens of a
"blackboard jungle" where
vandalism, attacks on teach
ers, sex assaults and even
murder of fellow students was
a frighteningly common oc
currence. The Board set up three
schools for them, two for 150
boys each and one for the 60
girls. Since, for more than
eight years the City had been
maintaining so-called "600"
schools for problem children,
the new schools were given
the number "700." They'll
probably receive another, less
coldly official title in a short
while.
Part of the Answer
Have the "700 schools" been
successful? The fact that the
Board plans to open one and
possibly two more in the fall
offers part of the answer. But,
beside that, here is the com
ment of William A. Hamm,
associate superintendent in
charge:
"We think, roughly, that 60
per cent of the children, pos-
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sive language have all but dis
appeared. Progress is being made
in scholastic work which is
pegged at a level which gives
the students some chance of
succeeding.
Parents and guardians of
the pupils report "improved
conduct" at home.
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Lung X-Rays Reveal
People Who Look
Older Than Years
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York IUPD A new
avenue to an understanding
of why and how human beings
grow old
along with all
other living
things has
been opened
because one
scientist gave
serious atten
tion to what
most scientists
would consid-
ios smith er an old
wive's tale.
A common idea but a most
unscientific idea is that you
can pick out people who look
younger or older than they
are actually in years. The
scientists would say you
might with a very few people
but you couldn't do it with
consistent accuracy with a
Urge number.
But the one scientist has
proved that you can. Furth
ermore, he has proved it goes
for the insides of people as
well as their outsides. Exam
ining x-rays of lungs (without
having seen their owners) he
picked out the people who,
on the outside, looked young
er or older than they were.
Hopes for Further Research
The scientist, Dr. F. A.
Nash, communicated his dis
covery to the American Geria
tric society with the idea of
stimulating as many scientists
as possible into following up
its leads. All sorts of things
are involved in the rates at
which people age.
Ancestors for instance. Peo
ple live longer whose ances
tors had long lives, generally
speaking. Occupation is an
other. Farmers (again gener
ally speaking) have longer
lives than miners. You could
go right on through a long
list.
Now there is a way of
checking off the items on the
list one by Nash suggested.
Take people who are proved
to look younger or older than
their years, both on the in
side and outside. Then inves
tigate their ancestry, their oo
cupations, their ways of liv
ing, and everything else about
them which might explain
why they've aged less rapidly
or more rapidly than the av
erage person.
To show wtiat he meant,
Nash described his own inves
tigation of the possibility that
people who consistently sleep
eight hours or more every
night age less rapidly than
people who as consistently
cut d3wn on their sleep. In
this case he found no signifi
cant differences.
Nash is operatmg a mass
x-ray survey in London. The
people who report to get their
lungs x-rayed, first give their
names and ages to a clerk. In
his experiment Nash station
ed two observers in far cor
ners of the room, where they
could see the people but could
not hear them give their
ages. Nor could the observers
communicate with "one anoth
er.
Their task was "guess the
age of each person, state
whether in their opinion, that
person looked younger or old
er than he was, and, if so, by
how many years. There were
259 persons involved, 15 to
70 years old; 188 males, 71
females. Not only did the ob
servers agree with one anoth
er; their "guesses" were ac
curate -to within a few per
centage points.
Nash, never saw the sub
jects. He saw only the x-rays
of their lungs. Having read
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