The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-08
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921
YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR SCHOOLS

Your children who have been home for the
summer vacation went to your schools this
morning and the success or failure of theswork
of your children in your schools during the
coming year is going to depend considerably on
your interest in their work and your interest in
the way the schools are maintained
SbTWelye thousand Kenosha children are 60
ing to school today Most of them are going
to the public schools but lot Of them are go
ing to parochial schools, but they are all your
schools and all of them engaged in a general
movement for a betterment of the children and
for a betterment Of the citizenship of Ke-
nosha.
More than two million dollars will be spent
for the education of Kenosha children during
the next nine or ten months. Much of it will
be~paid by the taxpayers through city budget
but all of the expense will be paid by the tax
payers one way or another.
1t is big expenditure but it is going to bring
big feturn if it is properly handled, but the
handling Of 1t and the handling of the interest
of the public in the expanding of it is going to
count lot on the results. Good schools are
not like "Topsy" They do not "just grow,
but they come as result of careful tending.
The real thing that brings better schools is
better interest in schools on the part of the
community. 1t is expected that Kenosha is
employing the best teachers that money can
buy, it Is expected that the city has provided
the best in equipment that the limited purse
OF rapidly growing city can stand, but Meth
er expenditure can be made hundred per cent
efficient without the big help of public CO.
operation.
Get the idea right now that the Kenosha
schools are your schools. If you haven't any
children to send to school they are yours Just
the same because the work being done in them
is going to be one of the big determining fac
tors in the future of Kenosha citizenship If
you have no children to send to the schools that
is your misfortune, but on account of this mis-
fortune don't be led to believe that you have no
interest in the development of the right kind
of children
Education is one of the biggest expenditures
made by any city. It's big bill but it is the
most valuable asset that any city can have
The most attractive thing to man looking for
location for his home is the assurance that
1t is going to be near good school.
Some Kenosha people have shown interest in
their schools in the past but there is chance
for wide extension of that interest few
people have been active in the work of the
Parent Teachers association. There is room
for lot more of this activity It is to be hop
ed that during the year the old fashioned
school visiting day will be revived in Kenosha
and that more people will get into personal
touch with the school work by being actually
present in the school rooms once in a while 1t
is to be hoped that more parents will come to
personally know the teacher who teaches their
child and that heart to heart talks with that
teacher will bring to her the intimate facts
about the child which will make it infinitely
easier for the teacher to be successful in the
education of the child. The teachers want to
make good, they want to make the school life
of the child pleasant and profitable but they
can not gain the best results until they are
given the most intimate acquaintanceship with
the child. It worth while for any parent to
take the school teacher into her confidence and
show an active interest in the work that tie
teacher has to do.
Don't be in too much Of hurry to crticise
the school management until you konw more
about it. Every school official from the presi-
dent OF the hoard of education down to the
teacher of the first kindergarten grade will be
glad to have you come in and talk with them.
You will not be barred from any school council
and your advice and your support is the thing
most wanted by these people.
Get it into your head that these are your
s hools and worthy of your interest and the
year will prove the most successful ever known
IL the History of the Kenosha school system.
--
The action Of Judge Belden in promptly de
Gliding all motion as to the sufficiency of the
grand jury indictments is to be commended.
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