[Child health in the school environment].

The authors studied the consequences of the present school system on children's health. They emphasize the causes of failures, mostly related to a misappreciation of children's individual differences and inequalities of the rate of physical and psychoaffective development. Overloaded school days, the lack of respect of sleep and extra-curricular needs, the overlooking of attention capacities were also studied.

[The pediatrician and school difficulties].

Difficulties at school are amongst the most frequent encountered in paediatric practice but paediatricians are infrequently consulted by those who are responsible for the children from day to day. As a result decisions are often contrary to the elementary principles of physiology. Unfortunately the chronological age is still the important criteria for determining school progress.