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CHILDREN IN SPECIAL CLASSES WORK DISPLAY ARRANGED A display of handwork done by pupils of special classes under the Education Department will be given in the Myers School here shortly, according to advice received by the Auckland Education Board this morning from Miss W. A. Valentine, supervisor of special classes. The display has been at the Waikato Winter Show and will be placed in the Wellington Show next mor>th. “I have had a good deal of experience with the children of these special classes and can say that they do really excellent work,” said Mr. A. Burns, chairman. The children had come to be looked on as mental defectives, but were actually merely retardates and often did better handwork than normal children, possibly because they did not attempt to do two or three things at once. The display would show that they were all experts in some branch of work, even though not of learning. “If this exhibition does nothing but show that the children in special classes are not mental defectives, it will have been well worth while,” commented Mr. F. A. Snell.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 989, 4 June 1930, Page 1
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