The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-08-26
INTEREST AIDS SCHOOL WORK.
Teachers Unable to Do Best Work in
Caring for Children if They Are Not
Wholly in Accord With the Parents
and School OfficerA

With the opening OF the schools OF
the city only a few weeks away the
superintendent of the schools as well
as other school officials III Kenosha
have received letter from State Su-
perintendent G. P. Cary asking that an
effort be made to interest the parents
of children more in the work of the
schools. The letter is as follows:
"To School Officers and PARENTS:
before this time next year more
than 100000 will have been paid
out of treasures of the cities and the
more than seven thousand school dis
tricts in the towns If this state for
school buildings, repairs, teachers
wages, etc. You have already mil
lions of dollars invested in school
houses, furniture, apparatus, and school
sites. Your educational plant in this
state represents a good round sum of
money and a good deal Of self denial
and public spirit on yorr part in build
ing up and maintaining an educational
system. In the business world, if i
corporation has plant costing more
than $ll 100000 annually to operate
and maintain each year, they not only
expect good return for their invest
ment, but they make every effort pos
sible to see that the plant is worked
to it's limit; that the persons employed
shall not only be efficient, but that they
shall be supervised and directed CON
stantly by other efficient officers; that
the machinery Of every part of each
establishment is kept in good working
condition and that the persons work
ing return to the corporation, through
their services, full value received and
usually considerably more
" You will recognize that from a
business point of view this is the only
way that such an enormous plant can
be successfully conducted and give
back satisfactory returns for the ex-
penditure of money and individual eff
fort.
"The particular plant in which you
as officers and father and mothers are
interested, iskestablished for a purpose
of the highest Importance, not only to
the individual, but TO the state. You
and your children are directly inter
ested, and also are or should be in
tensely interested. / have called your
attention to the enormous sum already
invested in the school buildings, sites,
etc, in this state; also to the large
annual expenditure necessary to carry
on the educational work. Now the
question for you to settle is whether
or not during the current year this
enormous investment and outlay shall
be utilized by you to the greatest pos
sible advantage. Is the school house
in your district in good repair and
properly cleaned and equipped for the
opening of the school next month or
later9 Have you secured rs teacher
for your children a person who is pro-
gressive, energetic, purposeful, compe-
tent, good dlsciplinarian and a good
stimulating example for your children
Have you so planned your affairs in
and about the home and on the farm
that the children whom vou propose
to place in charge of this teacher dur
ing the coming year shall be supplied
with books and shall be regular in
their attendance and obedient to the
rules and regulations accessory for the
good government Of the school? If
so, well and good. i If not, there is no
better time than just now T. begin to
seriously think about these matters and
to make such arrangements as will en-
able you to secure from the school
work in each individual district this
coming year, the greatest return posi-
BILE from the services of your teacher
and your equipment in the way of dl-
rect benefit to your children and in
direct benefit to yourselves.