Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Mental Examination of Two Thousand Delinquent Boys and Young Men
The C grade represents a rather distinctive type of boy, who has made little success at learning a trade or conducting a business. It is only very rarely that a profession is even attempted. In school, if he reaches high school, the work is poorly done. Often he abandons school rather early because of his inability to cope with the brighter pupils and the subsequent embarrassment of failure in promotion. Only in extreme cases is an illiterate graded C. This type is able to learn a simple trade that requires little initiative. It is frequent that one of this class is engaged in making chairs or brooms, or in learning some other trade of a similar nature, which, when the routine is once established, he settles down with a machine-like attitude and is perfectly content. A good example is 7938, who is now on parole. He is a native of Scotland and attended school there until he withdrew at the fourth grade after having twice failed in promotion. At the age of twenty-one he came to the States and to Indiana, where, until his commitment, he worked in a coal mine. While at the Institution he made fair progress in school up to percentage, when he was withdrawn. He worked at moulding, a trade requiring little initiative after the fundamentals are once learned. With the exception of some trouble over short work, his institutional record was clear. Upon his release from here, he took work in a factory in Indianapolis and has been doing well.
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