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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 508 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL , in See also:England a school, generally established by voluntary contributions, for the industrial training of See also:children, in which children are lodged, clothed and fed, as well as taught. Industrial See also:schools are chiefly for vagrant and neglected children and children not convicted of See also:theft. Such schools are for children up to the See also:age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen. They are regulated by the Children See also:Act 1908, which repealed the Industrial Schools Act 1866, as amended by Acts of 1872,1891 and 19or, and parallel legislation in the various Elementary See also:Education Acts, besides some few See also:local acts. The See also:home secretary exercises See also:powers of super See also:vision, &c. See JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

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