Show GETTING THE IMMIGRANT CHILD TO SCHOOL every immigrant child arriving at a united states port of entry will henceforth be reported immediately to the school an itly ties in the locality to which he is destined so that he may be placed in school without loss of time and without danger of being shunted off into unlawful employment this i as s made possible by operation cooperation co between two federal bureaus the Bureau of immigration of the depart denart ment of labor and the bureau education in the department of nf the interior interim ll 11 OI of according to ohp the plan agreed upon by commissioners car ca and claxton 1 of the two bureaus concerned the fic ficiala bals will have the names port of in im of migrant children between tho of 5 and 16 th e ages copied from the th manifest sheets submitted by bv steamship captains and for forward waid ed daily or weekly to the coun coull t ty Y or city superintendent of s schools cho bureau of education off ciaio point out that the success of th plan will depend almost upon the school authorities if f the attendance officer follows un at once the families where the up newly arrived immigrants have been received rece ivd it will be pos to enroll every child in school otherwise the child is apt to accept employment and be forever beyond tre the influence of american education it is jio j anted out that about hildren children between the ages agea of 5 9 and 16 enter the united States annually 85 per cent ff ef these homr from T irom non english pa DI t southern italy pola nd tl russia Lithuania t I 1 a and other castern astern and southern E european european and asiatic countries unless these children come into contact with american life lift through the public school they are likely ot grow up I 1 ignorant of american institutions and thoroughly unfit for citizenship the plan of sending the name of these immigrant children immediately immediate mediate to county and city 8 superintendents is a first step in hi the up building of a domestic immigration in policy by the unit united states gove government r fir rient according to dr H H wheaton special in immigrant du cation of the united states bureau of education duca it makes the beginning of the end of the doctrine of laissez faire with reference to the of the immigrant declares dr wheaton Wh paton dr P P claxton ammis lioner of education has communicated with city and county superintendents throughout the united states urging them to use every effort to seek out th tb children reported to them bv the immigration authorities and see that they are enrolled in school |