Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-10-24
The Home And School Club Is
Progressing.

A meeting of the Home and School Club,
which was recently organized by the teach
ers and patrons of the school, was held at
the Montgomery County High School last
Thursday evening.
The attendance was good and the inter-
est and enthusiasm displayed most salts
factory.
In response to invitations extended by
the program committee, addresses were
made by Prof. Charles G. Myers, principal
of the school, and Mr. Edward Broome,
assistant superintendent of schools for the
county.
Both of these gentlemen gave many
good suggestions for appropriate activities
OF the club of cooperative and helpful
character. Prof. Myers defined the sphere
of the teachers and Mr.. Broome that of the
County School Board, and each made it
clear that some of the many needs could
not be supplied without additional funds.
DR.. o. M. Linthicum, president of the
club, in pleasant strain outlined what he
considered to be a wise and fruitful policy
for the years work, classifying the activi-
ties under three heads, namely: ~ Those
which could be exercised with consent of
the teachers or local trustees (2) those
requiring the aid of the Mayor and Council !;
and (3) those calling for support by the
County School Board and, possibly, the
County Commissioners and the members
of the General Assembly from the county
at its ensuing session.
Among the things needed were men,
ioned the following New song books, the
proper improvement of the boys play
unds, source of revenue to relieve the
;hers from the necessity for paying two
--.nds of the cost of janitor, a stone cop
ing in front of the school grounds, an en-
lareement of the building sufficiently to
relieve the crowded condition, and to make
room for an additional teaching force as
needed.
A resolution was passed by which Mr..
Clifford Robertson was appointed to make
known the request of the club that the
Mayor and Council take proper steps for
the better policing of the school grounds
against loafers and smokers, and also the
suggestion that it would seem appropriate
that the next cement walk laid should be
along the front of the school grounds.
Another resolution was passed for the
appointment of committee of three to
represent the interests Of the school before
the proper county and legislative authori-
ties when the needs of the county schools
come up for solution this winter.
After discussion, marked by keen inter-
est and frequent complimentary references
to the teachers of the school, resolutions
were passed as follows:
l. That it is the sense of the patrons of
the Montgomery County High School, in so
far as consistent with the regulations of
the Board of Education and feasible with
the local teaching force. that all Grammar
School grades should have at least one
hour of study period each day in which to
prepare lessons for the succeeding day,
thereby reducing the hours for home study.
2. That we, the patrons, suggest to the
principal of the Montgomery County High
School that there be some mode of general
supervision of the length of lessons as
signed under the departmental system of
teaching in order, as much as possible, to
even up the work of classes from day to
day.
In keeping with the tone of DR.. Linthi-
GUMS address, all problems were approach
ed by the club in spirit of co-operation
with and not hostility to the regularly con-
stituted school authorities, and it is not
anticipated that the club will be a source
OF friction, but rather one of sympathetic
helpfulness to the regular school system
At the conclusion of the business session
the club members were invited to partici-
pate in refreshments served by the pro-
gram committee.
The Home and School Club as an organi-
cation is attracting the favorable atten-
ton OF the many patrons of the school,
and its membership is steadily increasing
Mothers are won because it promises a
better understanding of problems that lie
partly in the home and partly in the school /;
fathers are attracted to it because they
recognize the power such a movement be-
comes because of the strength of organized
effort
Plans are being made for an afternoon
meeting of the club to be held early in
January, when a speaker of prominence
will participate and other features of spe-
cial interest be introduced.