The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-11
Chicago Delinquents Will Have to Go
There and Stay.
(Chicago Amerfcan)

(ChlcagO. American.)
Chicago is at last to have a Parental
school. School teachers will no longer be
annoyed by the Vaccinations of truant
pupils. Habituai ..hookev" procIivitfes
VII be met with a corresponding and eff
fective remedy.
hese would-be deserters Of the public
sehoais VIII be properly taken care of by
, me eIlac tment of a law recently passed bv
80 ISSisIatuFe providing for the estab-
~ ~ III OF a Parental school in Chicago
8 aofTb 49, having population OF IOt-
v-Sii'Ila oI tantS or more Such a school
VIII be established In Chfcs0o uStbf 81 ,1c
IL ~ three morChs. The Parental scl,oOI
1ros @tdt iIS name indicates as nearly as
PoSS4O-S. Its aim is to take the DIaSa or
~ parents or the pupil The chronic
b bIlrooi deserted VIII there find both a
- -lOi"e ana school Children who persist
Saro 49, iiaDll o. truanCy VIII be brought
oeIofs the committee OF Cof0plIfsor,r On
o oeryIl' Sdch case examined, and the in
$3.50 SLY ores VIII be seat TO the Parental
yese, ., 20 r1ptde inelr time in this unique
0iOi III, me officers Of the school will
49, ne ehufe collaboration OF the par
ems IN the work.
Flogress in the devel0urnent of the ineff-
Iulon EaS awaited the investigation and
report or superintendent Thomas II. Mac
49, iiL9 report mas now Deen COM
pIeted ana was adopted by the board of
eCuCdtIOn at their meeting and it is ex-
Pected the work will now go rapidly for
The school building viii be a handsome
pflck structure, located on a fOTty-acre
tract OF land BY March / it is expected
70 nave the school in Iull running order
me INSTITUTION of the Parental school will
score another point IN the admirable
school system of Chicago. 1t is planned
e 70 nlake II me finest example OF parental
Win this purpose in view. Superintend-
sent - omaS II. MacQUeary and Robert NJ.
ShlIdl, supervisor of manual training OF
the new school, acting under the instruC-
ions of the committee of compulsory edu-
ca ION, Visited all the important parental
ana reform schools of the east. and the
result OF their investiga ton is embodied
in the report which outlines the plans of
the school in detail, its organization, man.
agement and purpose.
The school as planned will accommodate
9lO pupils. One large building will provide
I2r the school work proper to be done;
while the cottage plan will be carried
out-as is done in the best eastern
schools-in the matter OF providing the
children with the pleasant surroundings
some brick structures which will be a
CrPdft to the enterprise.
The object of the Parental school, which
is to reform the truant habit and return
the pupils TO the regular schools, can best
be accomplished by the fostering Of a love
I and appreciation of school work through
the exercise of a kind but firm influence.
These conditions can best adjust them
selves, the authorities say, by the inaug-
IRA ton of the cottage plan rather than
by the wholesale plan of reform attempte1
in a large -dOrmitory.
Strict discipline will be instituted A
general daily routine will be observed. Nc
matter whether the hour be one of school
work, house work, recreation or that con-
/ corning the daily habits of the pupil, a
strict adherence to its own particular time
will be observed. Thus the boy or girl OF
vagTant or truaut habits viii experience
a new influence in their lives and learn tC
accustom himself TO new and regular con-
ditiOns of daily life.
Mr. MacQueary believes the curriculum
should embrace an alI-arOund educa tiOn
involving physical, metal moral and re
! i,aiC--s frafnIn~. The physical training
will Be accomplished through physical CuI
ture This to include military drill, gym
7. Stlc exercises and manual labor, such
as working out Of doors in the garden anc
/ elsewhere
Mr.. MacQue AIRY says: The children car
be fitted TO return TO the public schools
( sooner and better by a special course, oil
study than they can by adopting ina
/ which has already failed to interest," them
/ None but the best teachers VIII pc en-
! ploved in the parental school.
J ''Tn fact. truancy is often due 10 teactl
} ers' defects A teacher may be we'll guam
! fed academically for his or her Wort
J and NAV be a fair success in an ordinary
I school hut he or she may fa1I utterly II
( a parental school simply because ne o.
I she lacks the proper spiTlt-th4t lnoelin
I able knaCk of holding the pupils II TINS
/ sta ten7ent is trite it is 50 true ana so I'M
( DOrtant that I do not hesitate 10 say ina
/ the success of the parenal school Will ue
! pend more largely upon he character o
I It's teachers and officers than upon any
J thing else