We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
FILM AND EDUCATION
It would be difficult in some schools and impossible in others to find adequate attention being given to health service. The health examination is entirely omitted in many schools though a number are setting up adequate periodic examinations, with definite follow up programs, under the guidance of qualified health personnel. Some schools are screening for defects. Vision and hearing are the defects most often checked, following which school people make recommendations for the removal or the improvement of such conditions, or aid children in making adjustments, both mental and physical. Finally, there is a mass of schools which do no examination, no organized screening, but through teacher and nurse observation, make recommendations to the parents. The American Association of School Administrators, in its publication Health in Schools, points to the inadequacy of the school health service in terms of total coverage, and also points to the insufficient provision for health service outside urban districts. Very often the school focuses its attention upon health examinations and suggestions for immunization, and many other problems such as those involving the cooperation of the school with the home and with community agencies go unsolved. This publication states:
"If the total number of administrative areas (126,849 school districts) is taken into consideration, the general conclusion is that the great majority (some estimates are as high as 80 percent) are without any, or else practice only the most rudimentary form of health service."1
Healthful school living interpreted in its broadest aspect would encompass every aspect of the school's and the community's influence upon the health of the children. How is healthful living being emphasized in our public schools?
1. Some school authorities recognize that a healthful
i American Association of School Administrators, Health in Schools, Washington, D. C. 1942.
[228]