The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-05
CHILDREN BETTER If GIVEN
CREDIT WHAT THEY Do At HOME

WILLOWS. CAL. Feb. s.-No
longer do the boys OF Glenn COUNT
schools protest violently at taking
their regular saturday night ba.a
No longer do the girls NOPE ana
complain because tired mother CATS
on them TO wash the dishes. TIL
family kindling is being split with
regularity ard dispatch and the coal
box is always fun
This ar-millennium Tor ths
housewife is the result of the system
Established by 5. NJ. Clancy, super.
intendont Of the county schools. o.
giving credits to pupils for activities
outside OF the classroom. especial
lly their home activities The sys-
TEN has been in operation for six
months and still is In the expert
mental stage but it has accomplish
ed more than its inventor ever
dreamed i would. Professor CLANCY
loutlined these results IN a statement
for the United Press To-Day. which
follows:
In the installation Of the meth
cd OF allowing credits for outside
lactivities, had in mind several pur-
poses. Perhaps the greatest benefit
We expected to derive from the plan
was to bring into closer relationship
the home and the school.
BY this method we hoped to get
| the teacher more interested in whet
the pupils We're doing at home. and
likewise to get the parents TO under
stand little better what was being
done at school. Another idea was 10
impress upon pupils the importance
and dignity of labor
II find more good coming from
this method than | had hoped. When
the boys and girls find that the
teacher is really interested In what
they do at home and talks to thea
labout many seemingly little things
connected with their life. they begin
to regard their teacher as a friend
Thus the possibilities OF that teacher
are increased many fold.
"Then the boy or girl who finds
lit almost impossible to learn things
THAT are in books. and who are some
times, led 10 feel they are failure,
but who can do things with their
hands, are encouraged when they are
given credit in their standings nj
school for doing these things.
In the short time We have been
trying this plan, have had many
mothers thank me for the idea, say
ling that heretofore il was almost as
hard work to get the youngsters 10
do chores and assist with the WORK
at home as 60 do 1t themselves, but
that since credit is given at school
FOR these things, the work is done
cheerfully and better. Many girls
who did not want to assist with the
cooking are now anxious TO learn
so they may be able to prepare a
meal by themselves.
Not only has the work been i'm
proved. but hygiene conditions are
better. From feeling of person
al pride a pupil does not want 20
bring in a credit slip showing he
has not had a bath for two or three
weeks, neither do his parents want
such showing. The same thing ap-
plies TO several other items on the
credit blank.
1--WE have been trying out this
plan for about six months. We shall
probably nave occasion to modify the
applications of the principle some
what. bur | am sure the general idea
is correct. The amount of credit TO
be given for this sort of activity
must necessarily be limited, that is,
it must not be allowed TO assume
undue proportions in its relation to
regular school work, and at the pres
ent time we place the maximum
amount at five per cent. but as the
plan is as yet in the experimental
stage, this may be changed later on.
Each pupil is given a Home Credit
Blank each month and his credit OF
work is kept on this, and must be
signed by the parent before present
ing il 10 The teacher for his credits"
Something Good.
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