The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-25
Invite the School Teacher TO Your
Home and Give Her Good Dinner

value received for his services, and
you can both do alot more good by
concentrated action along the lines
which you both understand.
If your children are still attending
district school you might visit a
centralized school some of these days
to see if the consolidated school sys-
tenn has any advantages over the Sc
gregated system.
That is, see if there is not enough
more advantages in the centralized
plan to Offset some of its disadvan-
tages.
l visited a centralized school last
week for the first time and | now have
quite different opinion regarding the
system than l had before.
The same day that l visited the con-
solidated school | visited one of the
district schools and l was very much
surprised in the difference in the
school spirit and the general atmos-
phere that existed at the two schools.
There was one thing in particular
that impressed me at the centralized
school In the High school there were
twenty-three pupils. If it had been
necessary for the most of these high
school pupils to attend the town high
school there would, no doubt, have
been only about five or six of them in
attendance.
This statement l base on the fact
that about that per cent attended
when the schools were maintained I'M
der the district plan.
OF course, the transportation of the
pupils to and from the consolidated
school by means of enclosed wagons
is not as satisfactory system as it
this drawback that the improved con-
ditions as found in the centralized
schools and the better facilities of
handling the various subjects in the
curriculum more than offsets the bad
features connected with transporting
the pupils.
The principal of the centralized
school which l visited showed me
some of the work which the pupils
were doing in agricultural botany and
it is surely work along the right line.
l cannot see where it would be posi-
BILE for teachers under the old system
with their many different grades to
look after to handle such practical
subjects.
All of us know that the childs edu-
cation is very important and we are
all anxious to have our children as
we'll educated as our means will per-
giving our schools the attention they
merit. Our hearts are in the work but
we fail to act
There is no better way of obtaining
results along a certain line than by
cooperative effort and the sooner par
ents get together with the educators
and work with them harmoniously
giving to the teachers the very best
equipment that can be provided the
sooner will we see more tangible re-
suits in the school work.
Let us begin at once to lend our
support toward our children's mental
training by ceasing to censure teach
ers and methods before the children
at home. You may be justified in some
of your criticisms, yet you do not ac-
complish anything by arousing antag-
onistic thoughts toward the teacher
in the minds of the pupils.
Do not expect the teachers of to-
day to cling to archaic methods. Just
because they do not handle the school
subjects in the same way they did a
few years ago does not indicate that
the teachers are wrong. The complex
activities of today make it necessary
to train the present day boy and girl
to cope with the present day condi-
tons.