Show 1 S I S Special Schools for Prodigies I S 'S SV V 4 A t t A I S S 'S S SS S'S S 'S y I w 0 K S S 'S 5 ss' ss 5 S S 4 St 5 55 5 S P S 5 5 C tj C c kS t 5 C Above pictures are of Mary Ellen McNally and Clair Bowers Dowers who are attending the public school psychology class In Cleveland I Schools where prodigies are saved sayed from becoming lazy Classes where bright pupils are given givena a chance to go ahead as fast as they can New York and Cleveland have them In these schools the youngsters who are smarter than normal are not held back because of age but are advanced according to mental ability In Cleveland the prodigy class at Dennison school has been formed as an experiment in psychology two Twenty-two of the smartest pupils of the Cleveland public schools are assembled in one class under a special teacher Her Job Is to teach them as fast as they can learn In their regular classes these prodIgies prodigies prodigies prod did not have to work to keep up with their class Now they can move ahead as fast fast as their mental ages permit This does away vay with laziness laziness laziness lazi lazi- ness says Dr Bertha Luckey director of the school psychology clinics Mary Ellen McNally is only 8 but has shown a mental capacity of 11 while Clair Bowers 7 has bas shown a mental capacity of 12 In New York children have been graded according to their Intelligence Mental tests on words numbers Ingel ingenuity inge Inge- nutty nulty common sense an 1 interpretation l of pictures and fables are applied Then the pupil goes into the class he is mentally mentally men men- tally taly fit to attend |