A history of the Dora Turner School, formerly the Girls Welfare School, from 1924-1974

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This thesis seeks to trace the history of one of Tasmania's oldest Special Schools, formerly known as the Girls Welfare School. It is now called the Dora Turner School. The School, established in Hobart in 1924, has occupied premises on four different sites during its first fifty years. The Girls Welfare School was established by the State Education Department for \the education of a limited number of girls aged 12-16 for whom ordinary schools are not suitable\" (undated Memo Education Department). It will be shown that the girls were referred to as \"backward and feeble minded\" (School Record Book 1951 76) but the School is now regarded by the Education Department as a suitable placement for Slow Learners. For the first 31 years it was a single sex school but in 1955 it became co-educational and the name was changed to the Dora Turner School in honour of the first Teacher in Charge Dora Turner who was appointed to that position in 1924 and retired in 1951. In a very real sense the hi

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