children and grandchildren know them out of the ways in which freedom is still under attack and we are equipped meddling spiritually and physically to defeat every threat such forms of knowledge a direct function of education most of us work hard to provide our homes with every possible comfort for our children we safeguard their health we strive to set before them good examples of moral living of manners and deported possibly even pampered yet complacently even carelessly we commit our children to schools which we know but little we cannot meet the complexities of modern life with outmoded school systems we must keep our educational standards of abreast of the swift moving times in which we live if we here to discuss my child and all you talk about is right eric h m player are talking too fast too fancy for me i've got a field of twelve i can see right now are not going to solve any rural school problems with this meeting wait a minute there mr and mr farmer this is a strange meeting is it you think you're here and then you're not a thing like this could never really happen still it's happening all around us but this isn't a meeting of any group or any group of groups it's a meeting of mine yours and mine and everyone who mind why i am the people an open meeting open to all we all have a reason for being here our school week or against the years a foreign political group and we're here to win the peace in our schools there's no room in our schools for anything that when you see how they live over there then you know you know maybe even better than a native born american now wait a minute you don't need to tell me that a foreign but all take it easy then it is true freedom is subject to attack from the inside as well as out it's hard to get people to sense danger just as it's hard to get people out to vote we couldn't even fill the six care at this meeting why should i come i don't have any children it's not my problem was i that was the voice of complacency or i should say half of the population of the united states he's a guy who doesn't have children or maybe they're not in school now it's not his problem he doesn't have time but we're leaving that chair open in hopes that he'll change his mind and join us join you in the millions of others who do care who are interested in perpetuating  free democracy how serious is this problem it's this serious  why i remember like it was yesterday he was like a baby he gets to me he always will be leaving him on his own for the first time i was a little afraid and still i was happy there were things i couldn't teach my son things he'd have to learn to navigate like working living in a world with other people respecting their right in assuming the responsibility of regular dut hard on the kids and it's hard on the teacher too crowded schools exist everywhere and there's a teacher shortage or haven't you heard well they gave my boy half asleep and ever since i've had the feeling that he's only had half the chance that's right for him and there's a matter of safety to fear of injury and fear of ill health you're right crowded school room is the breeding ground for communicable disease but the biggest loss is in education teachers cannot effectively instruct grass that number is higher for the pupils you'll know how difficult it can be to manage one child then consider what would you do with forty what's the reason behind this crowded condition there are many reasons but it all comes under one headingley increase in population our birth rate is up and our school facilities  behind young couples have been setting up in tire a new community where there's only been rural schools cities are certainly crowded beyond capacity and for children overcrowding means unsupervised play  content and the kind of a security that leads to crime and delinquency yes there are many causes for crowded schools and many a bad result your child must sit and wait his turn now that's all right is a lesson in patience and courtesy for children cannot wait to grow up they need their opportunities today just as they need their food today and they need their education today neither of it now and they miss it for ever and that handicaps when they take on their obligations as citizens i mean i feel that my child has only half a chance and he's growing right before my i can tell our boy have at least some of the advantages in school that he has a home he should have your boy needs the security that is built by have a school association its protection against on happiness and dissatisfaction two evils the rule and countless lives tell me does he take any special interest in his education does he intend going on i don't think so we consider ourselves lucky if we can even get him to finish high school one third of our national school property lation dropped out before finishing high school because of the conditions provoked by the shortage of facilities and teachers that means that one out of every three is denied his right to a that's correct these are only the lucky ones the children who live in alert awake and communities where teachers and parents join hands in a common bond of partnership and these are they  leftovers some become uncooperative others are called maladjusted still others we pass off simply as being poor students they are victims of school shortages replacement equipment and the national emergency for a million new teachers in the next ten years they must suffer for our crime i wouldn't want that to happen to my child it happened to mine no one can guarantee that it won't happen to yours except you hear other symbols of complacency is your home that i've noted would you go to an office or a club full of gloom can you work without tools or cook with broken your tantrums or what's more important what you willingly go to a place day after day the depressed feel that made you feel unwelcome because there wasn't room for you certainly designed for the students use sometimes all a school needs is a little face lifting here's the world and here is the new miracle of modern prosperous eating and lighting here is a junior high school food room before remodeling and here's the same classroom transformed so the daughter can practice the latest techniques in preparation of nutritious economical meal and they al tools for learning and tools for teaching to it makes it possible for our teachers to do the best job to do the job they're trained for what's more important it's pleasant for the children the girls like to work here and what they like to do they do well yes given the facilities and the model professional educator our children can be equipped with the knowledge and experience of daily life sure the three r s are important very important and always will be but there is more to education and that there's fair play and preparing the child to make a good home to dress better on less money and develop a sense of good taste and pride to hold up better jobs and this culture directed toward no more practical purpose than the simple joy of living with the modern tools of education school can become an exciting adventure a trip to far flung groaners of the year is an exhilarating interesting experience with the process is a learning the speeded up to meet the many complexities of modern is i see what you mean now i have been complacent but you see not having any kids i naturally didn't give schools too much thought well anyway you asked me to come so i no apologies necessary something makes sense i'm for it makes sense supporting schools to increase our educational standards makes dollars and cents a real estate man can show you a house without saying we have good schools in the neighborhood  about it well for one thing we can check up on our local schools see what's going on there and find out what they require that good and your own neighborhood is the place to start i'm going to get behind the schools in my community and see to it that everyone i know realizes the importance of money invested in education i'm going to look out for my job like that brian and don't forget to look out for the other man's child in a free country we elect our government officials i'm going to support the school board i have to elect that right let them know you're behind them  without i'm all for giving the schools the best and help the schools give every american citizen the best that can be had i'm going to let our teachers know that we appreciate their party raising our still don't know what it's going to take your time and your effort and it will take your vote as an american citizen are you up to  it i fought for freedom once i know i'm going to work for it i'm behind our schools from now on and i'm backing education one hundred percent that's what i'm going to do  what are you going to do a good school paper america free what are you going to do about it