The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-10-24
! COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES ;
d. w. Pearce. County Supt.

ID. w. Pearce. county Supt.
The meeting of teachers under dis
trict supervision was held as an
nounced Saturday, Oct 18, with AZ
out of 67 teachers present. This was
not so good attendance as the prev
ious meeting although the weather
favored as much as before. 1t seems
reasonable to expect better response
on the part of teachers for such meet
ings. Boards of education would do
well to know just what attitude their
teachers take on these matters. When
the absence is chronic, it indicates at
least in some degree the interest the
teacher has in his work. The COM
nunity too should be interested in the
attendance of it's teachers at such
meetings. The best farmers and busl-
ness men know the value of their
meetings. Is it not the same with
teachers. 1t can easily be seen that
economy demands that matters OF
common interest be taken up in group
meetings, Whether or not it has al
ways been true of Medina county, it
seems so at present, that there it not
the enthusiasm that permeates some
teaching bodies. No big thing is ever
done without this important factor.
The isolation in which many teachers
nave to work makes the coming to-
gether of persons similarly situated
of much value. The lone teacher or
the lone township system as well may
and can derive much benefit from
~ IIyhn howe
problems to meet,
The progress of child in school
is very often determined by the good
or poor attendance of the child in
school. The parent is often at loss
TO now why the child does not succeed
better at his work. Here is one place
at which the parent can do much to
aid the progress of the child. The
teacher with d room full OF children
canont teach the child when the child
is not present. 1t is unreasonable to
expect that the teacher has some
miraculous way of bringing such chill
Gren up to standard. Time is an i'm
portant element. Then a good school
is doing each day just about all that
can be expected of the average child.
Then to attempt to do more in most
cases is folly. The work missed is
quite frequently necessary to the un-
derstanding of new work. Here again
the child that has been out is es-
pecially handicapped. He is not and
cannot be ready for this new work. '
The time given the child that has
absented himself does not belong
wholly to such child but to the school
as whole. Parents should remember
that although the teacher even may
say the work Of the child has been
made up, the child is still the loser
Not once in a hundred times is "made
up" work really done completely and
properly.
1t has long been known that the
health of school children falls upon
the opening of school in the fall. Most
of this actual disease and sickness
and risk can be avoided. Every dan
ger is multiplied more and more as
the group increases in size. Under
such conditions a few neglectful par
cnts can easily endanger the whole
community. The cities have come to
nave a medical inspection and the
school nurse. The work of these
agencies is both remedial and pre-
ventive, with emphasis on the pre-
vention. 1t is only in the smaller
communities that such procedure is
cooked upon as the invasion OF the
liberty of the home. There are cases,
AOWever, where it is much more diff
cut to reconcile the treatment and
care children get at home with the
cal and fundamental liberty about
which we boast so much and which
r. often little practiced. What is learn
ing without health In the first draft
approximately one in four of the men
between the ages of q and 80 were
II tied for army service. Think OF
tn at the time they should be in
thor very prime. Others who were
acc, pted had to be placed in develop
ment battalions to bring them up to
standard. Nor were the boys from
| 80, country exceptions to the above
description. Defects in rural children
are more numerous than in city chill
dren. The cause lies in care and re-
1ncval by proper treatment. The fol-
lowing table will show what has been
done in five years in the city of Read
ing, Pa: !
Years Percentage of defects
1912-13 ..,....,......... .69.
1913-14 ................... .58.8
1g14-15 ................... 40.
1876 .......................35. .35. !
1316-17 .................. 80. 4
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