Nothing new.
The State Boys Rebellion
http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=422319
It’s interesting that Germany looked to the US for it’s ideas on eugenics.
Excerpt from link:
Though they couldn't possible know it, the children of the Fernald State School were the victims of bad science and a newly developed bureaucracy designed to save America from the so-called "menace of the feebleminded." Beginning early in the twentieth century, United States health officials used crude versions of the modern IQ tests to identify supposedly "deficient" children and lock them away. The idea was to protect society from potential criminals and to prevent so-called undesirables from having children and degrading the American gene pool......
...... It reveals the danger in misguided science, the fearsome power of unchecked bureaucracies,
"The State Boys Rebellion"
I saw this book last week, and it is the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. When I was a kid in Massachusetts,probably six or seven years old, my Mom told me that they had schools for boys that did not behave themselves, where they lived without their parents. I could not believe such a thing.
Later I figured that she was referring to reform schools [juvenile hall] where kids who actually broke laws were sent. In fact, many of the kids sent to Fernald school were just "bad boys", or slow, or maybe just inconvenient.