The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-07
BAD SCHOOL BOYS
TO BE DISCUSSED
MANAGEMENT OF DELINQUENT
CHILDREN "a SERIOUS PROBLEM.
Teachers Club. Calls Meeting Of Edu-
Gators, Settlement Workers and City
Officials to Take Up Advanced The
cries in Reaching and Training Off
spring of Negligent Parents.

Bad boys will be the subject Of dis
cussion at meeting of city and county
officials and civic and charitable or
CARNATIONS, to be held under the aus
pices of the Teachers club in the board
OF education rooms Saturday morning
According to the Juvenile court COM
mittee of the Teachers club, the prob
lem of the bad boy in the public schools
has become a serious one, and more
efficient machinery is needed to bring
him back into the paths of virtue and
make him into a useful citizen. One
of the most serious features, of the prob
lem is the indifference or actual en-
couragement Of a, certain class Of par
ents. ." IT, G.~saa. gs.s =.
~. Farm School Project.
The Feasibility of establishing a
farm home' for unruly and .delin-
quent boys will come up for discussion
at this meeting. The idea of these
homes is to provide a place, supported
by, the city, where boys who are un-
ruly or are handicapped by vicious
parents, can be given a wholesome life
Of outdoor work and recreation COM
bined with discipline and instruction.
Such homes have been found successful
in the east, where they have been tried
extensively. Such a home would receive
boys from Minneapolis only and would
not be state institution.
Industrial schools for boys who can
not profit from the regular course of
public school instruction will also be
urged. Such schools have long been
| regarded as necessary, but their sestab
lishment has been continually deferred
The promoters of this meeting hope tt
| secure their immediate establishment.
Penalty for Parents. +,
For dealing with parents who con
tribute to the delinquency of the chile
an enlargement Of the Juvenile court
law will be recommended. In Denver
a law imposing fine Of 500 upon tn,
parents of chronic truants has developed
among parents who, before it's passage
declared they could do nothing will
their children. ,...-. - ~ y :. -
Scholarships for the children of boo
parents who might otherwise be oblige,
to- leave school at an early age to con
tribute to the support Of the family
will be proposed as a solution of til,
poverty side of. 7the attendance cues
ton. Under this scholarship system tn
paid to his parents weekly. The con
ditions attached to this are that tn
child maintain a certain standard O
scholarship; that the family is in &C
tual need of his earnings; that tn
parents maintain, clean and respect
able home. a.. r~rus q" vi ~ - !,
| ~" Representative Meeting. /.
The meeting which has been called t
discuss these propositions will includ
representatives Of all the organizations
both PUBLIC and private, which were il
terested in the passage of the juvenil
court Jaw or have dbeen employed i
it's enforcement. r. Among the organize
tions invited to this conference by tn
Teachers club are: The board of edr
cation, the Commercial club, the HI
name society, the Associated Charities
the Salvation army, the improvement
league, the district and municips
Judges, Superintendent, Charles M. Jol
dan Of the city schools, the probatio
officers and the teachers in the truar
school. ... 49,
Arrangements for this meeting, whic
will be held in the board of educatio
rooms at II am, Saturday, are undo
the direction of Miss Hull, chairman {
the juvenile court committee Of tt
Teachers club. ..-.