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Show School Classes 'Wired' To Children 111 at Home DES MOINES. If a child can't go to school the school goes to the child in 15 school districts in Iowa that are conducting an interesting experiment with leased wire hookups. hook-ups. Twenty-eight children who would have been unable to attend school this year because of accidents or poor health have been in regular attendance at their classes. The device used resembles interoffice inter-office communication systems. In the child's room is placed a box-like instrument resembling a radio set. On the teacher's desk at school is another just like it. The child not only hears everything every-thing that goes on in the classroom but he also recites when called upon. The state provides the devices de-vices and the school district pays the tolls. "We believe this system is the only one of its kind in the United States," commented Jessie M. Parker, Park-er, Iowa superintendent of public instruction. |