Intriguingly, most of them attended motor handicapped schools, and were thin according to BMI (69% vs. 31% in other groups, p<0.03).
Over the years, Ms. Kelly said, she tried a public school classroom for the handicapped, an integrated private school, a mainstream parochial school with a "shadow" for her sons and a school for children with learning disabilities.
"This will seriously handicap our schools in moving forward with all programs," he continued.
In New York City, for example, 147,000 of the 1.1 million public school children receive special-education services; 7,445 of them, most severely handicapped, attend private schools at taxpayer expense because the city agrees that it cannot properly instruct them, said Lindsey Harr, a spokeswoman for the city education department.
Admiring the ablest students in America is a noble practice, but in today's society, children from working-class families, from urban ghettos, from country villages, are much too often handicapped by poor schools, by broken homes, by troubled neighborhoods, to fare well in the stiff competition to enter Harvard College.
Attention was given not only to "socializing" the system but also to correcting inequalities suffered by French ethnic minorities and immigrant children, to amending social-geographic inequalities, and to increasing options for the handicapped in both special schools and, after the mid-1970s, regular schools.
Zoological Society, who are given a 16-week course before going to work as guides & animal demonstrators at the Bronx & Central Park Zoos, & as conductors of nature walks for school groups, handicapped children, & so on.
A $70,000 Capital Revitalization Program grant to replace door knobs and make bathrooms accessible to the handicapped in the Great Neck school district was recently rejected by the county attorney's office because it would have served only students in the school, not the broader community, said Charo Ezdrin, Nassau's director of government relations.
The state requires that the school integrates handicapped pupils into mainstream education.
One doubts that most people knew that the young Hillary Clinton had worked to get handicapped kids access to school; or helped register migrant workers in Texas; or investigated segregated academies in the South; or started a legal aid clinic in Arkansas; or worked for the Children's Defense Fund instead of going to Wall Street.
He was friendly, sociable and liked to take care of a more severely handicapped child in his school.
