PS 177: Circa 1906

I believe Mary Brady was PS 177's first principal. This is part of a NYTimes' article from 1906. The main thrust here was juvenile delinquency among immigrant children. It's filled remarkably with prejudiced thinking and presented so casually. This was very prevalent at the time. Even Jacob Riis, an immigrant rights's advocate of the era, sprinkled his writing with outlandish racism.
In article's about schoolchildren the German kids' were looked upon as the models while Italians and Jews were incorrigible and unwashed respectively