Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-20

SET. Educators ana leSlSldlOIS are
/ beginning to realize this, but the
parent to whom the child means
most individually is but slowly awak-
ening to it. We have thought that
lif we fed, clothed and schooled our
child, we had done our whole duty
by him and to the state. We are
now coming to see that he needs
much more than this. We have left
the work of mental and physical
training to the schools and the spirit
.ual training to the churches, believ-
ing our duty to Ie done when we
paid our taxes and subscriptions
But some of us are beginning to see
that neither school nor church can
do its work effectively without our
intelligent cooperation. The ideals
taught in the schools must be cor
roborated in the home, the authority
of the teachers must be upheld and
respected, the chili's physical condi-
tion and surroundings must be sound
and wholesome, if he is to derive the
benefit he should from his school
life. The intelligent and conscien-
tious parent is doing this so far as
he can individuality; but as we come
to realize the solidarity of the race,
we see that so long as there are
homes in which this is not done, our
child is not safe. We are careful
that our child should not be exposed
to physical contagion; but what of
the moral contagion to which he is
continually exposed?
To bring parents and teachers into
closer relations and thereby remove
the antagonism which so often exists
! between them, to harmonic their
ideals and to teach them to work in
telligently together the Parent
Teacher Association has been formed.
1t has branches in many of our states
which are doing excellent work.
Things accomplished by Parent
| Teacher associations in 1912:
More patient, sympathetic rela-
| tions between parents and children
Education of parents as to their
duty to the children.
Tightening the teachers work
through intelligent cooperation.
Introduction of domestic science
and manual training in many schools.
Better equipment of school build
ings in regard to hygiene and beauty.
Serving school luncheons.
Establishing school gardens.
Working for the kindergarten as
part of the school system.
Saving the kindergarten when it's
continuance was threatened
Helping needy pupils in quiet, SYM
pathetic ways.
Providing sanitary fountains and
individual drinking cups.
Establishment and equipment of
Fairgrounds.
Improvement of roads between
home and school.
Baby-saving work through educa-
tion of new mothers.
Securing courses of hygiene in
schools.
Securing sane celebration of
July 4.
Giving home culture to girls.
Campaigns for pure food.
Securing a school housekeeper to
superintend the janitor.
Visits to moving picture shows and
securing censorship.
Giving Christmas gifts to needy
children.
Providing maternity bags fitted
with all necessaries for needy moth
ers.
Teaching children how to sew
Securing medical inspection in
schools
Paying trained nurse for a school.
Giving lecture courses in biology
and psychology.
Giving flower seeds to children.
Prizes for boys growing vegetables
and to girls for cooking and house
work.
Screening school windows.
Planting grass in school yard and
a grove of trees in one corner
Supplying school with window
shades and lamps, swings and giant
stride; little chairs for primary de-
partment.
Providing sand boxes for boys and
for girls
Rest rooms for teachers and pu-
pills.
Worked for enforcement of cigar
cite law
Simplifying the dress of school
children.
} Providing probation officers,
Employing a visiting nurse.
Paying board of poor children in a
good school
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