Certain members of the defunct "Norfolk Federation of Women Teachers" have served here as teachers. They were willing to volunteer in an attempt to teach the mentally disabled children and allow them to graduate from elementary school. Once in high school, alumni from this school were usually assigned to basic-level courses of what we would call the "vocational program" in today's society and not in special education programs. Dropout rates in the area high schools were particularly high back then and the disabled high school children had a higher chance of dropping out due to the difficulty level of the assignments. Fortunately, the mentally disabled high school students didn't have to wait until their 21st birthday to "graduate" from high school back then.