The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-18

Emma Freimuth, Mary Cavanaugh
Boys and Girls Club Work. .....
...,......Su pt, Lillian l.. Chloupek
The Supervising Teachers Notebook
Elizabeth Marquardt, Sup, Teacher
Southern Section, Osman, Nov 20.
1000 A. M.-Cummunity Singing
and Teaching New Song .......
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mary Grady
Remedial Work in Reading-First
and Second Grade 80. Edna Belitz
Remedial Work in Reading-Thrd
and Fourth Grade. Theresa Knier
What My Beginners Have Accomp-
lshed Up to Date -. Trina Karnopp
100 p. M.-Folk Dances and Games
..,.,,..,.,..,.....G Gladys TroSsen
How to Make the Teaching of Ag-
riculture Practical. George Grady
How l Teach Present Day History.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. LORNA Lorfeld
Reading Circle. .,.................
Anna Pritchard Supervising Teacher
When a man buys a piece of farm
machinery he uses it in connection
with his work. lie does not put it
away in a corner, never to look at it
again. When his wife buys house
hold utensil, she makes use of it in the
homework. In short, the commonsense
practice is that we use thing after
we have procured it.
So it should be with our institutions
especially our schools. What a waste
it is to maintain schools and then have
the children irregular in attendance
Think of threSherman letting his ma
chine run empty half of the time.
What kind of a business man would he
be? Yet he would be no more foolish
than community that maintains
school and yet has school attendance
of only so per cent.
Poor school attendance when there
is no valid excuse is criminal Parents.
who keep their children out of school
without good reason are robbng their
own children. 1t is bad enough to rob
strangers, but to rob those who are
nearest and dependent upon us is GER
tainly crime that only a Judas can
be guilty of
Poor attendance is often due to
carelessness But that does not help
the matter. The child who stays out
of school falls behind his classmates,
loses interest in the work and wants to
quit school. Later on when he grows
up he finds that he is unable to do
things that his companions can do be-
cause he failed to get the training in
school. Then, perhaps, he is too old,
or he has no chance to learn. He be-
comes sour and disconnected He Is
enyious of those who succeed better
than he. Because of his surly DISPOSE
ton others find ii difficult to be cordial
towards him and his dislike for others
increases. lie may become a bad and
even dangerous neighbor
And to think that his failure in life
may be due to the fact that he was
neglected by those nearest him when
he needed their help and encourage
ment the moSt
There are unfortunately some who
do not believe in education. Because
they have had little schooling them
selves and yet been successful in a
financial way they reason that others
can follow in their footsteps. They
forget however, that times have
changed since they were young. With
the keen competition in every industry,
those best prepared will necessarily
have the best opportunities and those
with the poorest preparation will have
to take the back seats. Let not your
children in years to come have the OPP
portnnity to curse you because you de
priyed them of an education.