Education: Moron Campaign

Chicago's schoolteachers eyed their charges with a horrid new thought in mind last week. They had to discover if any other children were criminal morons like George Rogalski. In the classroom George Rogalski had been clever, polite, attentive. His teachers had noticed nothing strange about him except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for...

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