Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-11-11
STATE EDUCATORS
CRITICISE. PARENTS
L. G. Mustain Gives Resume of Par
ents' and Teachers Meeting at
M. E. A. Last Week.

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Parents and Teachers Association
meeting held in connection with M.
e. A. at Minneapolis last Thursday,
Friday and Saturday was given by L.
G.. Mustain, superintendent of schools
at a meeting of the Morris Parents
and Teachers association in the high
school assembly room Monday night.
That greater cooperation between
parents and schools is absolutely nee
essary if the schools are to be efficient
is the consensus opinion of educators
thruout the state according to Mr..
Mustain. Educators would find their
task easier if parents criticised the
school and teachers less before their
children. Teachers feel it would be
wise for parents to visit the schools
more when their children are we'll be-
haved, instead of waiting as is often
the case until Johnnie or Mary get
into some difficulty.
The. prevailing opinion is that girls
in the high school do better work
than the boys, and are willing to
study more outside of school hours.
The young male of the species is more
content to do only enough to "get
by, and evinces very little intellect
ual curiosity outside of school hours
in the first years of high school,
The abdication of the American
home was deplored at the Minneapo-
lis meetings. A few decades ago chill
dren used to stay home and enjoy
f1reside amusements, while today they
depend on the theatre and dance hall
recreation. Parents are urged not to
let children spend money extravagant
ly. When they have earned the money
it is a different matter but the habit
of spending money they have had no
part in making tends to galvanize a
contempt for the value of money
which will last far into adult life.
Mr.. Mustain at the close of his
talk remarked that conditions in Nor
ris schools were not unlike those else
where in the United States. In the
discussion which followed William
Hope suggested the forming of boy
ftand> girl scout teams to salvage some
of the present day waste of juvenile
energy. Mrs. J. G. Morrison brought
out by a question that very few Nor
ris mothers are in the habit of visit
ing the schools. Several different
reasons for the diff erence in the study
habits of boys and girls were brought
forward. Some said girls were more
in awe of the teachers, others that
women were naturally more con-
scientious than men.
Mrs. J. G. Morrison sang when
the Heart is Young" by Dudley Buck
and Love is a Bubble by Frances
Allitsen. A lullaby Honey Town
by Parks and Zone, Two, Three, and
Four" an Hawaiian melody by A. La
Media were given by male quartet,
Messrs L. G. Mustain, P. S. Jordan,
William Hope and J. S. Kettlewell.
All musical numbers were enjoyed
very much by the audience, especially
when the Heart is Young" and lone
Two, Three and Four" Mrs. W. e.
G. Saunders, on the program for a
piano solo was unable to be present
on account of pageant practise, held
the same night.
Refreshments consisting of dough-
nuts and coffee were served down
stairs in the domestic science rooms.
Mrs. o. M. Ulverstad, chairman was
assisted by Mesdames M. J. Rhyn, c.
G. Jennings, o. L. Birch, W.. H.
Cherry, A. G. Sidenblad, A. J. Sla-
men, M. o. Flatner, Bertha Jacobson
and the Misses Florence Peterson and
Camilla Hendricks.