To make a study of school children with the idea of finding the extent of mental and physical defect and the relation of these to the school grade, behavior, race, social and economic status of the family, language spoken in the home and, if possible, in a few cases, to the mentality of the parents.

Give group psychometric tests to one thousand (1000), (or two thousand (2000)), children in grades.

Give all those children, whose intelligent quotients are below 75, individual tests. If possible, a psychiatric examination would be given to these individuals. (We could estimate that possibly 50 to 100 children would be given the individual test but we do not know about this).

Give physical (including dental examinations) to the group that is given the individual examination.

Make a thorough study of the last named group as to environmental and home conditions, race admixture, mentality and anti-social behavior of parents, fraternity and so forth.

Make a superficial study of all the one thousand (or two thousand) children as to birthplace of child and parents, language spoken by the child and each parent, occupation of each parent, literacy of each parent, number in fraternity, school grades reached by fraternity. This would be obtained from school records and what the child could write down on paper in the classroom.

The children would be the "run-of-the-mine" in the schools and grades chosen.

The schools would be chosen so as to give as nearly as possible, the same proportion in the children tested as are found in the state at large. For instance, if A percent of the school children in Vermont are in one-room rural schools, we would try to have the number of children in one-room rural schools tested be about A percent of the total number tested.

In giving the group psychometric test, we would hope to enlist the aid of school superintendents who have already done a good deal of group testing.

We would hope to obtain the aid of at least one out-of-the-state psychologist and one out-of-the-state psychiatrist, and also some of the members of the staffs of the Vermont State Hospital and of the School for the Feeble-Minded. (The staffs of the Vermont State Institutions are too small to permit their doing all of the work). In some cases, the help of the local health officer (if he is a physician of repute) would be enlisted.

In our study of the pedigrees of families who have been an expense to the state and towns, we have found quite a large number having French and Indian ancestry with sometimes a mixture of negro.

The draft statistics showed Vermont to be almost at the top of the list in the number of physical and mental defectives. It has been suggested that this may be due to the large number of French Canadians in the population.

We would hope that in this study of the "run-of-the-mine" of school children, we could get some light as to the truth or falsity of this suggestion.

[handwritten: The accompanying school history blank is a tentative form which will probably be modified. The detailed schedules are far from being completed.]

Page 1 Behavior history might also include running awayfrom home. (Truancy from school, only, is treated above). Might also include fire-setting.Might also include extreme inertia.Cruelty might be sub-divided a) to animals or birds; b) to other children. Page 2 Defects might also include convulsions, since many times they are not so severe as to be epileptic in nature. It might be valuable to have the conjugal condition recorded. in the table for siblings. Page 3 For each parent, the attitude toward child, such as Discipline Interest Capacity to co-operate, etc. seem as significant as the childs attitude toward the parent (page 1). Page 4 Physical examination - Some mention of appearance of skin might well be made, i.e. clean or dirty; coarse or fine; erupted or not. Page 5 Medical history might also include scolosis; encephalitis; early rachitic tendencies. Habits might include nail biting; thumb sucking; nervous twitching; throat spasms (clicking, clearing). Enuresis might be subdivided. - Daily, Nocturnal, Both. In the Medical history might be included such parts of the personal history as a) weight at birth; b) date of birth; c) birth - full term, or premature; d.) delivery - normal or instrumental. If the chronological age were repeated in the table headed "Mental Diagnosis", it would make for a quicker comparison with the mental age, and give more immediate significance to the mental age figure.