Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-04-25

HID WELFARE AND vERMONT'S NEW SCHOOL PROBLEM
We absorbed in activities and patriotic service
that may be @ 9Ss Of S y essn sd sap
scripton and the nobe volunteer system the flower OF our
Ss most Rn pso that
try From the list youth presented selects for its
s sad the @
War absorbs attention and tends to us to
part Of parents to shrk their duties teachers in
War service s hs On ts
what appear be the patriotic fields Increased
and vigorous energies and lure large part of those who
der ordinary would help mpart new blood to
the teaching force of the commonwealth .
All these and other influences combining to intensity
the problems confronting State Hegas and his
colleagues the experimenting andAteachns force
educational system. At the same time we are insisting that
the States educational organization shall devote large share
of its time to activities that rightly should be borne by
The step the direction Of effective counteraction
womanhood recognition Of the fact that the
Patriotism Germany always looks ahead generation to
its youth for military duty and cannon fodder We
necessary but for the greater Conflict human development
under all conditions whether of or Of armed conflict
to the conclusion that such project the school for
predetermined the unfortunaes who be sent to reform
matter of fact child welfare is problem confronted in every
school we'll in our secondary schools and
Of the State board of health stated the whole proposition to
& s e Se
asset The educational campaign involves the home and the
We have all unpeasanty surprised by the high per-
centage of rejected by the draft boards in diff
and otherwise the diseases encountered imply
degeneracy.
Manfesty the education of large part of these defect
neglected both at home and in school, Many of the
physical defects could have been obvated mnzed by
ing remedy in this connection that jump from doing
nothing to the discussion of elaborate system involving
immense amount Of red tape and large and be-
come as to taper off by again doing nothing
So saSeo sr the snd in
ing beginning The boy or girl who is constantly STOPPING can
direct the attention Of children frequent deep breath
ing which will cause them unconscousy to throw the shout
ment Of the be used to advantage school for
brief rest period which will make close study enough easier
what these light casthenics are they will
adopt them in their schools Other considerations of health
and physical development are part of our education.
that schools when all is said and done will be what
many children lack proper training home that
as1 declare that children largely what their teachers
The first essential especially in this time war and
Enumeration of teachers adequate is enough
blood boil see how people spend thousands of dollars
for Thoroughbred horse blooded bovine improve their
Stock yet when it to teacher for their children
are content nsistent to cut the stipend down less than
living wage five dollars week to teach school Of
forty fifty scholars. You have known of
unpariotic scrimpng and false economy yourself
AS plain matter of fact demand that teacher shall
De an expert in education in physical training in vocational
deVelOpmenC, IN heah, morals department, and last,
not least substitute for home trainer weekly wage
that is positively beggarly, in host of instances.
At this time recognize the demands of the high cost
of living in almost every other direction except schools
and colleges In addition to demanding varied and
acting service a result of activities insist that our
teachers struggle along under old conditions
on not with reference to school and the
teacher or teachers therein?
The report of the school made in Vermont in 1914
under the auspices of Dr. Henry Pche president of the
Carnegie Foundation for the of Teaching and
his colleagues made this fitting quotation from Vermonts
first constitution of 1777 "A school schools shall be
tabshed each town by the legislature for the convenient
instruction of YOUTH with such salaries to the masters paid by
each town. making proper of school lands in each
thereby to enable them to instruct youth at low prices One
grammar school in each county and university in this
State ought to be established by the direction of the General
Assembly"
The fathers of Vermont way back there in the colonial
period before the United States a nation solicit
ou about the education of youth well what the
constitution of 1856 declared to be essential Claws
encouragement of virtue and prevention of mmor
atty We doing far less in proportion to
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