In England, villages and farms have canals as their main source of shipment goods, therefore canal boats are the only way to get products. The captain’s entire family would work on the boats 24 hours a day. This meant that the children on the boat were not exposed to social interactions with other children and did not attend school continuously. Most of the canal boat children would be sent to school at the age of 13 without knowing how to read or write. This places them in a difficult situation since they would not be able to keep up with their peers and are to old for younger classrooms. A test was given to the canal boat children to determine how their cognitive skill because of under-attendance at school. The test scores demonstrated that
