Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-02
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.
PARENTS AND TEACHERS.

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| The professors of the. Denver Higf
school and the manual training schoo
lhave issued what the Republican call.
IAN important circular, inviting. tn,
CO. operation of parents with a view t
preventing loss of interest in school OF
1.-THE part of pupils and To securing bet.
ter work from them. The attention o.
parents is called to the interference
with school work by hnmoderate in.
diligence by pupils in social amuse.
ments and pleasures. and TO the dis.
tracing effect of membership in or
CARNATIONS not recognized or sane
toned by the schols. These educa-
| tors In their circular remind the par.
lents that the school work should bt
paramount to these outside and divert
I Ing interests.
The strangest feature of this circulai
lis that it should be deemed necessar,
to call the attention of parents to sucf
facts, and yet that necessity does no
seem confined to Denver. Parents ar,
to be found everywhere who do no
seem to realize that during the schoo
years school work should be the. on
thing uppermost in the thought of thu
ttDupIlS. 4HG4 1utllGLF OOy " AZ
gets for him a place In p store or shol
shows generally great solicitude as t
the success of the lad, and is constant
! " making inquiries as to how he 4
getting along and is continually urging
him to attend to busine.,s and warning.
him against indifferenc,s or neglect o.
duties, but the same father Il his boz
1 is in school is apt to look on the duties
there as of less Importance. He u
ready enough to hunt up an employees
| and to find out how his boy is doini
lin shop or store, but he never thinks
of asking the teacher How the lad i
making 1t in school Parents are very
careful about allowing social pleasures
to interfere with, business duties ant
fyet seldom give thought to such In
reference II; it only affects the duties
lin the school room. There is an incon
sistency in such interest in the on
case and Indifference III the other a.;
to Indicate the necessity of parents be-
Ing given a little education as well as
their children.
| There ought not to be the necessity
| of sending forth any such circular as
THAT being directed to the parents III
DENVER IIlOIS tlAi1u lOIf u SlICOAht
urging parents to see that their chill
dren are properly fed and clothed
Teachers cannot prevent scholars from
rushing into q. round az social pleas
ures which keep them up late ut night
and render them unfit for the school
duties of the next day, nor can they
restrain them from belonging to clubs
and other organize lions whose influ-
fences are demoralizing to student life
After they pass out Of the school room
the teachers authority Is gone and TIL:
parents should see to 1t that their au-
thority and influence is used to supple
ment rather than destroy the work
done in the school. Pupils need recrea-
ton but in securing it there should be-
the constant watchfulness and re-
straint OF parental control in orde,
that such recreation may not become
such dissipation as to interfere with
the work of the school. That work \
being done, not for the. benefit OF ths
teacher, but for the benefit of the
pupil and none should be more eager
to make this benefit the greatest pos
sible than the parent. That the teacher
deems it necessary to remind the par
ent OF this fact by sending forth |,
circular is q strange comment on fam
lily life.