The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-03-22
MEETlne MARKED BfeINlaNe
OF new ERA Of PROGRESS
First Session of Teachers and Parents,
Held on Wednesday Evening, Was
Well Attended.

parents and teachers of district No. Z,
called to meet in Lincoln building last
Wednesday evening, while not attended
by as many as the Importance of the
work it is proposed to take up demand
ed, was very satisfactory, and the lack
of numbers was made up for in the in
terest shown. The board of education,
Professor Selleck, County Suuperintend-
ent Dickey, many of the teachers of the
city and large number of parents and
citizens were present. The pleasure of
the occasion was greatly increased by
the musical contributions to the pro-
gram by Miss Spalenka and Miss Ross
man. President B. F. Barge was selected
chairman of the meeting. The general
subject was "Co-Operation of Parents
and Teachers"
Prof. Selleck, superintendent of the
city schools. was the first speaker. He
said in substance:
81 do not wish to take up too much
time in discussing any particular meas
ure, but it may not be out of place to
lay before those who are present what
may be done in using the forces that
are in education, and also what has been
done in other places to promote the cause
of education. 1 have found that as
result of public meetings there has new
er been any difficulty in seeing that the
wheels move along; it is so the country
over. People are so busy in their own
affairs that time goes by and their in
ought to be felt; as it would be if there
was some way in which people could CO.
operate. We want to open the doors in
some way. The cooperation of parents
and teachers is broad subject; we need
the advice and sympathy of the COM
mon people in the homes-people who
know their children We want people
that do not think they can speak, these
are the people we want to speak at these
meetings, and we do not want any one
in the city to feel that they are not
needed in this work. The schools need
advice the schools need help. We want
the people to know our aims, what we
have in view.
"Teachers want to know what the par
ents know about their children. their
temperament, tastes. ideas, the different
phases of the child's life; teachers should
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dealing with something that lives; that
takes its stamp from fathers and moth
ers and playmates; we bring together
in intellectual, moral and physical traits
to make the child better and nobler
Teachers have found out so many things
from the parents that they did not un-
derstand and parents have found out
many things from the teacher. l will
say that public meetings of this kind
should be informal so that teachers and
parents should become acquainted. There
should be no attempts to exploit new
theories, nor we should not make COM
plants at these meetings"
Miss Liberia Brown spoke upon the
subject from the standpoint of teach
err. In brief, her remarks were as fol-
lows:
"This paper is not going to dictate, it
hardly ventures to suggest. 1t merely
voices few ideas that might be in the
mind of almost any teacher. The COM
mon ground on which we meet is the
welfare of the child. The word meet
has a slight ring of irony when We rec
ollect how rarely parents and teachers
meet as such.
at so happens that the general prin-
ciples of home and school education are
almost identical. The aim is the same.
The mother prays that her son become
a man, the teacher wishes the same for
her pupil. Granted that parent and
teacher are working for the same end,
much friction may be avoided and much
good accomplished.
"An efficient teacher is not only some
thing of scholar but also little bit
of physician and good deal of a
mind reader, but she would be superhu-
man if she could read every one of the
needs of her forty pupils in two or three
months. An interchange of information
from the parent to the teacher is neces-
sary. The teacher should know of any
physical ailments of the child or of any
bodily defects, also peculiarities of tenn
permanent.
Parents and teachers as workers
can talk freely Children like grown