The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-18
A Weekly School Story of School News for School Supporters a n d School Patrons.
Of interest to Parents.


 Las week in these columns ,,o called attention to some of the causes of retardation in our schools. In our discussion of these causes we placed first the parents indifference to the physical qualifications of their cbil. dren for learning, as most striking.
 Additional Causes.
 rrceulari.y Of attendance. This lack of consideration for the cbiId's educational welfare asserts itself in other ways, notably in the unneces- sary irregularity of attendance on the part of some pupils.
 Something Happens Every Day
 Every day something goes on at school There is no time to vase: none to spare Something has to be learned every day if the course of udy which is planned 10 cover every day in the term is gone through. Ey- cry day that a pupil is out of school he misses part of the work of his grade.
 You Are Interested.
 seems almost useless to write of indifference for those who read this na-a for they are the ones most in- terested in the work and progress of he schools Yet we are hoping that some one who has hitherto felt no concern may read and awaken 10 the need of the school for he parents ac. tive interest
 Do you appreciate the fact of the puhlic school, the magnificent oppor- u0ty it brings to the modern boy cr| sir? Then perhaps you know some our who has not this appreciation; he man who kept his boy out of school half a day last week to run an erraud
 Cost of Brands.
 We can not think that all the er- nds which children are kept ont cfl hool to run are serious enough toI be worth a hali-days' schooling
 V may be that this occurs on the very morning when some new princi. lIa Of arithmetic is explained It is fully and clearly demonstrated so that every pupil present thoroughly under stands And the following morning nothing remains but ,s put inc princi- plc into practice But the stray boy back; and he does no. understand Joes the father expect this eXplan- alton gone oyer again just as careful and minutely in every detail, so hat his boy can get 1t? It will re- quire the same time to make the eX- pauation 70 one that it did to make il to twenty-five
 Who Is to Pay? Judge between the value of the morning spent in shiftlessness 70 the one, and the morning spent in work o the twenty-five. Shall the twenty five pay back to the one the time he threw away?
 Types.
 Observe this boy. His mother is l a widow in hard circumstances. Yet he is making every effort to give him chance-keeping him in school at great sacrifice Here is a girl in the same class who ie sent to school as a matter of course | uo sacrifice being necessary to keep ! hor in school She has never been | impressed with the value of an edu- l cation. therefore she does not take bor work seriously but is lazy about her studying.
 The Difference, These two pupils receive the same degree of attention from the teacher DO other proportion being just. The first child goes ahead with his class The second remains behind The diff terence in the children is the differ once in the parents
 if Your Child Were Blind. If your child should suddenly be- come blind and have to get he rest