The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-16
THE IMPORTANCE OF !
REGULARITY WILL Be
SUBJECTS OF TALKS
THE SCHOOL RALLIES WILL UN.s
DERTAkE TO IMPROVE
THE ATTENDANCE.
SPEAKERS TO SHOW RESULTS
Reporters Are Costing the State an
Immense Sum and the Parents Are
Responsible to Large Extent for
the Conditions.


Responsible to a Large Extent for
the Conditions.
! The week following the education
al rallies at Columbia and Mt. Pleas
ant, there will be a series of rallies
held at different points in the county.
AS some of the speakers could not
come the last week in August, these
rallies have been postponed until the
first week in September.
At these rallies vital issues are to
be discussed. Some of the impor-
tant subjects which will be discussed
are How to Keep Our Boys and Girls
in School Through the High School
Course" How to Keep Our Boys
and Girls in School More Regularly"
How to Make the Parents Realize
the Necessity of Having Their Chill.
dren Present the First Day of
School,"
There is being paid each year an
enormous amount of money for the
repeaters. The fathers and mothers
do not seem to realize that a large
per cent of the pupils fail to make the
grades as the result of irregular at
tendance. In the city of Memphis,
Tenn, in 1908, there were 13,90S pu-
pills enrolled. OF this number there
were 4,186 repeaters. The cost OF
all schools was $476,924. The cost
of the repeaters, those who had to
stay another year in the same grade
grade, was $143,554, or thirty per
cent of the total cost. From such
comparisons can be easily seen how
much is being wasted each year. In
many of the schools of this county
the boys and girls, especially the
boys, are found to 60 over the same
work year by year, being the result Of
irregular attendance. It does not
seem to be realized that this success
or lack of it in school will be an in
spiration in after life.
Everyone has an abiding sympa-
thy for the boy or the girl who is
forced to do the same work over and
over. The repeaters cannot be CEN
sured for being discouraged and leav-
ir,c he RoI
himself in class with younger COM
panions. His age and size are con-
slant reproach to him. He has been
so thoroughly trained in failure that
he cannot see himself succeeding.
Failure with him has been habit.
Children should be started to the
school the first day and kept there
every day. The boys and girls in the
schools who do their grades success
fully year by year will acquire the
habit of success. They will come out
of school confident of their ability
to do something and will do it wher-
ever they cast their lot.
At these rallies that are to be held
in the various sections of the county
there will be discussion of these
subjects by successful school men,
men who have been successes them
selves and who have trained others
to be successful. They will tell how
important it is to have the cooper
alton of the parent as well as the pu-
pill to secure the most satisfactory re-
suits, and they will also tell how
that cooperation can be given with
the minimum of effort with the max
imum of results. The children In ev-
cry community should be present at
these talks and they should see to IL
that the parent Is there also. The ed
ucational interest of the county ana
the state demand the hearty team
work of pupils teachers, parents and
outsiders in order to place the COM
ing generation where it should be In
the rank of the states educationally.
commercially and morally.