The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-05-12

+ ASSOCIATION
Meeting:H at Souris on
Thursday and Friday of
Last Week--Session< is a
Successful One.

The Bottineau County Teacher g AS.
sociation convened at Souris, May 4th,
at 9 80 p. m. This was one hour be.
hind schedule time, owing to the fact
that the weather god had ascertained
the date Of the meeting, and not wish
ing to lose the reputation already &C.
quired upon occasions of like charac-
ter, had furnished the usual snow
storm to delay Jim Hills train.
Upon our arrival, we were met by
the teachers of the Souris school, who
very kindly arranged for our entertain
ment, and shortly after accompanied
us to the M. E. Church. which mad
been prepared for our meeting.
President White called the associa-
tion to order, and after brief address
in which he commended the energy
and enthusiasm of the teachers who
were present, the invocation was pro-
nounced by Rev.. F. s. Hollet, pastor
Of the church.
81 The orchestra rendered several fine
selections which were fully appreciated
by the visitors. Misses Dena and
Myrtle Lomen favored the audience
with piano duet. and Miss Alice
Warner of Westhope, with vocal
solo, which was properly encored.
Miss G. M. Burr, primary teacher
in the Bottineau school, read an excel
lent paper upon "Parents' Meetings. {"
She said the teacher duty lies along
the line of forming for ''complete
living' and that our present school
system was built upon this founda-
tion, and to carry out this idea. that
teachers must co operate with parents.
the former acting as assistants in home
building. On account of progress in
educational work, much more is re-
quired of the teacher than in former
years, and at present teaching the
child to read, write. and figure, is but
a small part of their work, and CO.
operation is now a universal watch
word all over our land. . Teacher
stand next to parents, and are respon-
sible for physical, moral, and spiritual
development. To meet the demands,
parents meetings have become a nee.
essity. At these meetings there is a
question box, and parents are en-
couraged to discuss the several sub
jects introduced. Good Judgment is
necessary in the selection of these top
les so as not to give offense, and must
be treated in general way. The
hardest part is dealing with moral
training, as on this subject answers
must be affirmative or negative-no
swerving to right or left. Lying and
stealing, trashy literature, clandestine
friendships and meetings, correspond
ence and other subjects, are few of
the important questions along this line
of thought.
These meetings are mo1e properly
mothers meetings, as the average
American father shows little apparent
interest in the school life of his child
ren. and fails to see that he is jointly
responsible with the mother for their
training. The failure of parents to
realize the necessity of moral training
in regard to their own children, is a
subject of much concern to teachers,
who see day after day, year after year,
tragedies enacted which causes them
to shudder and ask, "what shall the
harvest be? p and yet they are power
less to remedy the evil without the
help of parents, most Of whom would
hold up their hands in horror and ex-
claim "my child is not guilty of such
offenses!''
LACK of space forbids complete re-
port in this issue. The report will be
completed next week.