THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
The Industrial School System
There is a tendency in the industrial schools to overlook the vast difference between children who are out of control, children who have been deprived of control, and children who have broken the law. It is not right that young people coming under these three headings should be thrown together in one institution for even a day, and it is not right that those who fall into the third class mentioned should he brought in contact with each other without due regard to characterisation of their evil tendencies that have been shown. There have been great advances in the industrial school system, but a great deal remains to be done, and not until we can bo sure that children who become wards of the State from misfortune are not allowed to mix with children who have shown definite leanings to evil can we say that we are not manufacturing criminals. —“Southland Times.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1927, Page 2
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160THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1927, Page 2
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