Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-09-03

carry more than. load the las
year. If the amount of extra worl
IS not too great we give them
chance to try it. In some instance
failures result which disappoin
parents, teachers and students. Il
'ome of these cases the student AM
parent believe that discrimination
has been made against the studen
Ind hard feeling results. Many
Woodworking and consideration
teacher has lost her position becaus
Ut the failure of such students t.
succeed in their last hour effort. l
students receive all of their credit
each year all such unpleasantnes
can be avoided.
Many of our large universitie
Will no longer take students unless
they have high average grade il
high school. BY keeping records
they have found that the student
barely gets through high school viii
likely fail in the university or il
ne again manages to barely gel
through the university will never
reflect any great credit on it. Some
OF our large Eastern and Middle
Western institutions have been fol.
lowing this policy for years. This
sitting does not apply to high
schools but to individual students
A student from Boise or Chicago
would have TO stand a barring out
II his grades were too low. Due to
the great demand for entrance and
the increased cost of education some
of our large Western universities
are now demanding a high average
scholarship of their Freshman stu
dents and are picking the best. The
University of California does this
and some others do it to less ex-
tent. Education is becoming too
costly a process to waste time on
those who do not care to learn when
there are many willing students an
xious to get the chance to learn.
Students looking forward to a col
lege education should get the best
marks possible while they are in
high school.
In Conclusion
In a very large sense the school
is your school. You pay for its
support and send your children to
it for an education. We want to
give you the best service possible
under existing conditions. These
conditions are very largely shaped
by the patrons. Some of the handi-
caps have been pointed out to help
not in the spirit of complaint We
desire your goodwill and cooperation
and will try hard to merit both. We
deal with all kinds of people and
have all kinds of students Some
students are very successful, many
are moderately so and a few are al
most failures. These few failures
sometimes receive an undue amount
of attention. The welfare of one
should not block that of large
number of others. To get much out
of schooling much must be put into
it. No short cut to learning has
ever been invented. Things worth
while have to be worked for Please
help us to impress these into the
minds of your students.
There are two JLher institutions
which we work in cooperation with
in trying to turn out good American
citizens. They are the home and
the church. The home is the
of society. When it be-
gins to deterinate the nations future
is in danger. The church has work
to perform which the school cannot
undertake. It's place cannot be
filled by any other institution. When
its teachings are taken lightly the
nations future is again endangered
The school wishes to share the re-
sponsibility of bringing up the
children with these two institutions
not to assume any duties that be-
long to either. II children are Civ
en- good home, good church train
ing and a good education there will
be little question as to whether they
will succeed or not. Under pres
emit conditions many children are
not given this complete training
and many of them are aimed at
failure unless they are checked. Let
us all do our part to do this before
it is too late.
We hope to have another school
year and are going to do our best
to make it so, Any questions con-
1erning school matters will be an
swered to the best of the writers
ability.
HUGH II. NIXON, Supt.
He Praises The Republican