New Britain herald., 1919-12-23

1 10 educate the parent and make him ! responsible.
 The United States commissioner of
 education, P. P ClaAton, emphasized
 the carrying weight of correct tcrmin- oloSy and said he looked upon the ; members of the conference as a corps of conse crated specialists in child , nurture to whom may be given the names or all children who seem troublesome and in need of help and guidance. This work pr. Claxton con sidered as Education Extension Work the great branch of a school system that entered the home. Once i the home feels itself an integral part of the great educational system higher
 standards of home life, and more ef- 1icient guidance and direction of chil-
 drcn will be insured. The represen- tatiNes of the attendance bureau. un- like the teacher can place the pres sure of authority when efforts at per suasion are ignored; and this same representative can slowly through constant pressure and vsitat tions, edu- cate parents to their responsibility. Since the indisent, the neglected. the irregular and disciplinary children were the problems that the conference was especially concerned with, reso-
 
 work under the attendance and school
 welfare department and the officials in the department were termed school welfare workers
 pr. John w. Davis, director of the bureau of attendance of New York city, gave an inspiring paper on the school census and the best methods Of making it accurate and efficient. Since eCluc3 ton cyiStS for all children of all the people, each con- munity must know it's children to be educated--hence the need Of a cont plete census enumeration secured by {; hOuSe-tO- house CANVASS However. the maintenance of a school census does not depend upon the house-to- house canvass alone, and the second development in the census work is it's Verlfication, or a statem ent from the schools that checks the children reg istercd on the enumerator's list. As state instituIi ions offer suitable care for defective children. parents should be encouraged to take advantage of 1 the training offared by these various
 institutions. and enroll such children | as cannot be properly instructed in city schools. The number of defec- tive children kept at home by par ents is made known by the verifica ton of the census enumeration, as are the cases of all illegal non- attend ants and the employed and unem- plo%ed under 16 years of age. The
 third phase of the school census work is keeping tie census am ended, that is, keeping it an up-t to- date record. All
 new arrivals should be added, and l changes in addresses and withdraw 1 als from the city should be noted at l regular intervals.
 One Of the most disturbing factors 1 in school attendance work is the Family That Passes By Night and l leaves no address. Every city has it's 1 number and the conference urged the 1 delegates 10 arouse community inter 1 est in reporting the children. found on the streets during the school hours i and also the new arrivals in neigh borh pods. h. F. Tn considering the treatment of 1 juvenile delinquency and the relation l of the juvenile court to the schools, ] Hon. Charles Brown of Philadelphia stressed the point that both the court end the probation system cannot Dc ! divorced from inc educational syst -n! hccy use children u1Ger juvenile, court jurisdi ction arc also unGe" the iutis { ,diCtion of the eduLl3t iOlltll auth critics, The problem a court fac cS when child is brought before it is one Of moral education, of home education for parents, and of social protection for the child Experience in juvenile court work and probation work has provcd that in nearly all cases the childrcn's presence in court is due 10 conditions over which they have no 1 control The community, the home cnCironment and the Woefully negli- gent. parent are the contributory if not basic, factors in every juvenile Ofiensr. The family court idea, the court to which parents can be summoned and made responsible in greater number for the neglect Cf their children. is being advanced for the trcatm ent and control of delinquent children. Ii is the juvenile or family court that is the states guarantee that every child shall be given d chance to become a
 good citizen. Through these courts the state has the authority to consid- CT and provide for the child's future welfare at q time when the child l% unable tQ guide his own life, or where weak or ignorant parents have failed, where perhaps criminal parents are guiding h1m Into crime. : In the. juvenile court, the child who
 steals, the truant, the runaway, the
 vagrant are considered as children needing trca tment and it IS the pub
 lie school teacher or welfare worker, who. working jointly with the judge and probation officers can best advise treatment through education methods. Justice is free as education, be cause the closest cooperation be tween court and school should exist. The qualification and preparation of attendance officials was paper thnucht tfnllN Drcnared and ably pre-