The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-03-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
(COmmunicated.)

| best magazines and newspapers thai
cur public schools are not meeting
The needs of the pupil, and no one
realizes the truth of this more than
the pupil himself, and the intelligent
parent and patron. Why are they 81
lent on this most vital subject? Why
submit as they do to the infliction
OF all grades and kinds of teachers?
and are the superintendent and thei,
teachers the public servants or their
masters?
These, and many other questions
Of moment, W0bble up and remain I'M
answered for those most concerned.
Parents are not entirely blameless
when they send undisciplined and III
different pupils from home to schools
tC meet their counterpart in the in
different instructor, and thus cripple
themselves in a possible general
movement to better themselves and
the school community, in removing
undesirables. Why the superintend-
ent appoints some characters to reign
supreme over the daily lives of oul
children | cannot conceive or mag
inc, hence the query, or complaint,
why do the majority desert tie
schools in or before the 9Th grade?
We, the parents, deny this to be the
rule when our children are provided
with the right teachers. Children
governed and controlled by a super
ior will behave themselves, and tic
Test in their natures aroused, and
they LIKE to attend school. This
is the case particularly in the rural
districts. And they are far more like
~ to remain through all the grades
than to desert if their ambitions are
fired and the noble cause of educa-
ton shown in the limelight of their
understanding as it should How
many teachers realize this, or care one
bit as long as they draw salaries as
remuneration for their most trying
and tiresome undertaking? The small
est child will know it's friend and
feel its foe, and act accordingly.
School life has no business being
disagreeable, to teacher or pupil, IL
spiration and uplift being the sacred
right Of the child. The attitude OF
teacher to pupil brings about its own
results. A child only realizes and
believes what it sees; rarely, what
it hears, or is told in a cross unkind
tone and manner
If these up-to-date teachers would
make more use of the first lesson
taught from the Holy Bible to the
child, which reads, Honor thy father
aud mother" each would have less
trouble teaching it to honor herself
Dr. make her superior knowledge on
sanitation (as well as book larnin' y
4 beautiful idea; a picture to the
awakening intellect instead of re-
Election, a sheer as it We're, at It's
home surroundings, the chance of al
moral uplift would be infinitely great |
a.. Later, when the child, being a |
2kild no longer, cannot see as child
r feel as a child" ignores this fact
md departs once again from the path
If wisdom and thus loses a bright !
md promising student and the world |
loes also.
So parent and teacher should walk !
land in hand linked together undis- |
,olubly for a great good-the young |
Ife intrusted to their just considera-
Jon. Let the teacher the newcomer
often also stranger in our midst) |
strive to gain the confidence and
Of the parent-the mother
# her charge-and her annoyances
viii be reduced to a minimum in The
school life. Just as long as she re-
uses to recognize these little things,
ust so long will she, poor thing, fit
rom one locality to another in search
4 a congenial position.
Let the class sit up and take no.
ice" that it is a very different spec
men who catches the heart of BAR
mt, pupil, and the single man.
EXPERIENCE"