N.Y. Education Law § 4302: Object of institution

§ 4302. Object of institution. The primary object of the school shall

be, to furnish to the blind children of the state the best known

facilities for acquiring a thorough education, and to train them in some

useful profession or manual art, by means of which they may be enabled

to contribute to their own support after leaving the school; but it may

likewise, through its industrial department, provide such of them with

appropriate employment and boarding accommodations as find themselves

unable, after completing their course of instruction and training, to

procure these elsewhere for themselves. It shall, however, be in no

sense an asylum for those who are helpless from age, infirmity or

otherwise, or a hospital for the treatment of blindness.