Sentence examples for backward children from inspiring English sources

As a boy, Richard Rogers was dismissed as stupid and sent to a school for backward children.

While radicals she associated with were "shaken up" by visits from the FBI, Boggs wrote that her husband treated agents like "backward children".

Tokio was up against geographical fact, obvious to all the backward children in the Sixth grade, that the two girls it had married might just as well be on the other side of the moon.

Those that do attend are often segregated into "special" schools, either because they are (supposedly) suffering from mental handicaps, or simply because other parents don't like their children being educated alongside poor, smelly, backward children.

She remembered the shame, the pity, the humiliating difficulties of the journey, and the ugly, vicious, backward children he was with in the special school where he had been placed after they arrived in America.

It shouldn't be necessary to say it, but this has things dangerously backward: Children's interests should come first.

Particularly when he runs over a backward child who plays a game of jumping out at passing cars.

In his 1937 handbook "The Backward Child," the British child psychologist Sir Cyril Burt depicted left-handers as fumblers and bunglers who "squint" and "stammer" and "flounder about like seals out of water".

Sighing, as if he were a backward child on his first day at school, she led him down the hall toward a large central space with skylights which seemed to be a general meeting area.

In answer to Mr. Bush's criticism of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, the agency said North Korea "can never pardon anyone who dares slander its political system, though he is a man bereft of elementary reason or a politically backward child".

Meanwhile, the misogynistic prime minister turns a blind eye to Turkey's backward child-bride practices and domestic violence.