Milford chronicle., 1918-12-20
COMMUNICATED
The Good Work Of the Parent. Teachers
Association


The Parent Teachers Associations are
. means OF bringing about a better un-
1erstanding between the home and the
0ehool. To be successful in the school
Retivities. the teachers must know the
parents dispositions and the conditions
q their respective homes, and the parents
must cooperate with them in all Of the
work. The teachers and others who are
identified with the function Of the asso-
eiations testify that there is now a more
mutual relationship between one and the
other; consequently there is thwarted the
unjust destructive criticism on the part Of
both parents and teachers.
Secondly, the associations help 10 i'm
prove the physical conditions Of the home
and the schools. A. present where there
5s no Parent Teachers Association, the
school is not visited by the Jealous. ener-
getic people 10 assist with various sug-
gestions and things for the Improvement
Of the aesthetic and the moral conditions
prevalent therein: hence the ambition
which the teacher once possessed gradual
ly thwarts. Now. / do not mean TO in
sinuate that the associations should take
the improvement of the physical condi-
tiOns of the schools as their chief aim,
because the intellectual. social and ethi-
cal attainments OF the constituents should
be the highest aim or goal: but that the
organizations should improve in many
instances, the physical conditions Of the
schools and the communities, extensive
", with the money which is in the fund
Thirdly, the associations create favor
able public sentiment. BY this ! mean
the parents and teachers labor to save
valuable time. The teachers in the iso-
lated schools are. however, losing con-
siderable time because unknowingy, they
are teaching in more or less mechanical
way, not making the curriculum vitalz-
ing and interesting.
We, as teachers and eX-teachers, must
motiva,e interest in the pupils When we
see immature pupils leaving school be-
cause teachers fail to utilize their powers
We think that Parent-Teachers Associa-
nons would check the influx 10 the home
BY altering these conditions and extending
the moral and intellectual aspirations Of
the homes and the school. Furthermore, {
the members Of the associations viii ap- e
pTeciate school plans more. When the
parents convene and discuss mutually the v
various phases in general, they awake
rom their dormant state and become r
more susceptible 10 logical ideas and fl
more subservient in the performance Of 1
heir tasks for they now readily see tina;
ne teachers are thinking how to pro- s.
note the general welfare and how 10 Sc d
'ure the blessings Of liberty for ourselves
md our posterity instead of merely hear Fl
ng the recitations and getting their sal
r4es as some misapprehensive people IL
ave criticised members Of the teaching
tan or corps Of doing W
Lastly, the Parent Teachers Association
ives the teachers and the parents a bet W
er chance to study children. In the var
'us discussions The teachers can easily m
eject the traits Of the parents or visual OF
70 more clearly each members charac-
sristics, thereby giving 10 all concerned al
be advantages OF having teachers who III
ave acquainted themselves with the en-
ironment and the heredity of pupils 70
'verything indicates that the associations re
loculate and foster moral ideas and tn
leals
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