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Read this student summary of Act 1I of The Miracle Worker.

Act I introduces Annie Sullivan as she says good-bye to Anagnos, a kind man who has helped her for many years. Annie is leaving the Perkins School for the Blind, a school named for a visually impaired shipping merchant from Boston. She and Anagnos discuss her new assignment, and Annie is curious about teaching a young blind girl. At the end of Act I, the other Perkins students enter to offer Annie presents and bid her farewell.

Which statement contains a detail that should be eliminated to improve this summary?

Act I introduces Annie Sullivan as she says good-bye to Anagnos, a kind man who has helped her for many years.
Annie is leaving the Perkins School for the Blind, a school named for a visually impaired shipping merchant from Boston.
She and Anagnos discuss her new assignment, and Annie is curious about teaching a young girl with visual impairments.
At the end of Act I, the other Perkins students enter to offer Annie presents and bid her farewell.

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The second sentence. The phrase "a school named for a visually impaired shipping merchant from Boston" is inaccurate — the school was named for a Boston shipping merchant/philanthropist, but he was not visually impaired. Remove "visually impaired."