The New Immigration a Study of the Industrial And Social Life of Southeastern E
The New Immigration a Study of the Industrial And Social Life of Southeastern E
Peter Roberts
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In a town in New York State, the foreigners petitioned the Board of Directors for a night school, and the native-born voted " no, " for the foreigners would dirty the room and might leave something after them. A town in New England, which, under the state law, ought to have opened a school for the foreigners, shirked its responsibility. When a 1 See Table XV in addenda. 282 THE NEW IMMIGRATION patriotic American lawyer tried to compel it to do so, by an appeal to the district attorney of the st...ate, the game of politics came into play, and the foreigners were left in the cold. When the immigrants come into the public schools, the appliances and the teaching are not what they should be. Few, indeed, are the public schools that have seriously attempted to solve this problem of teaching the foreigner. In a New England town, a Hungarian, six feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, was put in a combination desk, suited for a child of twelve years, and the first primer given him to read. When a friend of mine visited that school, he saw the son of Hungary bending over his lesson, with his finger on the sentence, " Sophia had a little doll.
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