The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-06-02

time and have made comparisons o-
the teaching here with that have OBJ
served In other schools. Our system
OF teaching and grading is PRACTICAL,
the same as that used in other school!
CT the state.
We started this year with motto
and this motto frequently ANNOUNCED
during the chapel exercises, "Tall
less, think more" or as stated anothe,
way, "Use the mouth less and the heaG
more" We have striven during the
entire year to get individual worl
from the pupils. / have sought
through study and application means
by which to accomplish results anc
| am frank to tell any one who is
interested enough to know that 8
large number of the pupils of the I'm.
ion high school did not study last
year and the per cent is about the
same this year. l believe the worst
IS over, however, for the children are
influenced and have been influenced
by the conditions which we have founo
ourselves in during the years follow
ing the war period. We have wit.
messed this shaking up in the financial
and in the social walks OF life: it is
only natural that young America
would be influenced in the schools
just as We older ones outside have
been.
One hundred and fifty did not make
their grades clear and above board
last year while 1874 failed on one OF
more subjects in my building this
year. Why these failures? That is
the question. When l checked up in
the grades I found about the same r..
suits as one of the lady teachers Who
checked up her grade one morning and
found that eight out of "a pupils had
spent as much as 20 minutes prepar-
ing the lessons.
being divided into four classes:
1. The pupil who studies and
2. The pupil who is unprepared for
the grade in which he or she is placed.
3. The pupil who studies and fails.
4. The pupil who does not study and
fails.
Too often parents do not know their
children. Perhaps l can hear some
fathers and mothers say, "You arc
wrong" But I'll 20 further and say
that parents are more easily deceived
than any other person with whom the
child comes in contact. It's hard
proposition for children who sit to-
gether in the class room to fool each
ether. They know each others faults.
and limitations. Playmates know each
other. The child knows his father
and mother. But have met very few
fathers and mothers who know their
children. | could give numbers of en-
ample5 which have come in my per-
conal experience as a teacher.
Your boys or girl fails in one of the
n1o L L
she fails in No. 1, why, there has
never been a kick made. That is the
normal child meeting all require
ments. Class No. 2 finds pupils who
have been promoted too carelessly or
who come from the country schools
If the teachers do their
this class. No child should be pro-
NOTED unless it is prepared for the
next higher grade. Class No. 3 is a
hard proposition to handle. feel thai
parent and teacher should get to-
gether as quickly as possible with this
class. The father and mother may
not have good chance to compare
their children with other children.
Therefore unless their attention is at
tracted by some outstanding charac-
teristic of the child, the reports con-
tinus to come in with low marks,
while pupil and parent criticize the
teachers for unfairness in the grad
ing. This always leads to unpleasant
feelings which could be avoided if the
parent would come to the teacher and
ask for the truth in the matter. If
you will let me offer a suggestion, il
is this: Please never use phone nor
talk to a teacher about your child
where the conversation can be heard