The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-03-30
j. 7 D. CLUB HOLDS
MOTHERS MEETING
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some and some are not clean anC
wholesome. Surely you would see {
curious jumble of the citizens of ito
morrow" Where do they all come
from would be your almost natural in
quiry My answer would be as natural
ly, From your home and hundreds OF
lother individual homes in and around
Vinita. There is another curious
thing you might find out-you who
had thought that your own little darl-
ing was quite different from the com
mon run Of children, which, / admit
rs most natural and laudable would
be likely to realize for the first time
that your children are just about the
same as the other children. In my
experience as a teacher, | have dis
covered that when a parent finally did
find this out It was better for the
child, the home. the parent and the
school.
Now watch what happens when the
ianitor rings the second bell; at the
first tap of the hammer, balls and
bats are dropped, the hop scotch cir
cles are forsaken the 'squat-down
josy" ring is broken, in short all
forms of sport are instantly abandon
ed and the pupils as quickly as their
innumerable feet can carry them, get
into line ready to march to their re-
spective rooms. Instant and absolute
obdience is required and given and
you would wonder il it is the same
at every home. About 40 on the aver
age go to each room and are taken in
charge by a single teacher. Here
comes one forty-noisily you may think
you may see only a bunch of chill
dren but If you are more than mere
casual observer you may see the radi-
cal difference between any two--one
is quiet the other loud, one is quick
and alert, the other slow and heavy,
etc. You will begin to see that the
teacher Is up against a most difficult
proposition How to bring order out
of chaos, how to keep order, inspire
respect and study, how to deyelope
both mind and character, etc. where
so many are to be considered tand
many other requirements depend up
on that teacher IT, as is often the
case. some parents find 1t hard and
wearisome to manage the one child of
their home what about the teacher
who is required to both manage and
teach 40 at one time six hours each
day for five days Of the week. ! shall !
not try to describe what you might |
see in that school room but ! shall as
sumo you have been set thinking Shall |
/ attempt TO interpret your thoughts?
Let us assume in order to make it en-
phatic and personal that your own |
child is one Of that 4O OF course, it |
goes without question that little |
more than in anything else you would
be interested in all that pertains to !
the welfare of your own child. You
are thinking, perhaps, in the first
place that the teacher is somethingI
more than hired servant like a host
ler a waitress a newer of wood and
a hauler of water You viii think
that she is a character maker and
49,. .,.,.h T., ,,.o,, mana nffa.fi,+o than |
the parent You will begin to see that
she is related to your home in a most
vital manner In fact it is dawning
upon you that she is a moral and in
factor in your home and
that though absent in the flesh she
has been present in the spirit in your
home every day since your child has
been her pupil You will think that if
either the teacher or the parent have
been deficient in training your child
that the chances are that it has been
because you have failed to appreciate
ler work you are the one who has
'aied to see the relations that exist
between the home and the school and
consequently YOU have failed to coop
Arate with the teacher; you viii be
lumiliated because you see that where
rou have blamed the teacher you
lave been at fault yourself It will
'e forced upon your memory how un-
ust you were when johnny brought
Iome his grade book with department
marked down to p and you condemn
d the teacher for being partial and
MUST Johnny might knock lamp
own at home and break it or a cost
y bit of brica-brac, but that is simply ,
lischief not to be taken seriously !
Int if he manages to throw spit |
all at school behind his teachers &
aek you have said that the teacher
ad no power to discipline In short
on are seeing things as you never
aw them before and let us hope that /,
on are seeing the necessity of real (
ing the relationship between your n