The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-14
Robbing the Children to Pay Political School
Teachers for Promised Support


Democratic City last night and affirmed
its scuttng policy. Ignoring the warning uttered by
Mayor Atwater, the political element joined WIN Tie
political groups Bridgeport Teachers Association in
platform the schools of Bridgeport
be operated by politicians for the benefit OF
aggression institution which is designed
a T9mess 70 serve ali '"' p'0p'' ''H D
Finding the schools sadly shattered state, with
teachers working half hours day. some FOUR
five Board of Education consulted the leading
educators of America ,
AS result deemed best to extend
the time The school increased from nine hundred
hundred hours by adding one half hour on
each day and twenty days to the year
prime purpose is to benefit children who must leave
school early ife especially those OF te VINO are sioN
in one or more
In the physical boys girls not alike One
jumps than another Some play baseball some football
basketball better than others In the game some play
position play another Life has need of all
these inequalities 1t is sign of mans higher development
mental it is just the same but in greater
degree Psbury playing chess bindfold used to play eight
other good players simultaneously and beat them ALL och
is the gulf between mind and another
children read WE'LL but do not take kindly to
spelling Some expert in arithmetic but do not absorb
grammar easily.
The talents of children are various
During the the time factor has been and the
studies increased The children have been loaded
with increasing burdens but the time given them in which to
do their has been reduced
In impetuous the very abest children, the
west barely get along They suffer- but not SO much as
the slower children These sacrificed make the leisure
which Bridgeport Teachers Association is bent upon main
tanning
children injured all their lives long,
stripped of nave permitted to know the joy of
,cess do have time enough in which to
)pery do what they asked to do.
This terrible haste responsible for much of the irritation
the school 1t makes wrecks OF the feebler
teachers makes neureshencs of the weakest children
thousands of them weakened organization until
they untitled to cope with the world.
Indeed under the policy which the politicians and the
politicians of the Bridgeport Teachers Association have joined
support, there is profit in keeping children back.
If the child is of family which has MEANS it
be tuored The parents must pay SIS $780,
less to teacher private compensation for bringing the
child up to standard.
Bridgeport objection
The tutoring system is confession that time is
needed for children More time needed for thousands
children.
reforms these politicians attack give to each
child the time which it needs for
These changes stop the drain of tutoring which inflicted
upon many parents.
The public schools will do the child they
designed to do, what they ought to do
In Fairfield following the example of Bridgeport,
schools have adopted the longer
whper They glad Fairfield to give the children
what they need.
Bridgeport teachers willing, for the part, to
give the children what the rules require.
Most of the teachers Inundated and chagrinned
few of their number have debased the degraded
by promising political support
For this is the basis behind this most unAmerican plat
form
The politicians of Bridgeport Teachers Association attempt
deliver The politicians promise
school year 200 hours.
conspiraors robbing the language
strong but not too strong for the facts Trading away
the children Bridgeport grossly political
1 will prove profitable transaction.
The Times proposes to make this condition crystal
mother and father in Bridgeport will
! what is going
Schools exist for children; not to get votes
furnish geneel
port Association This doubt
place. of its place. very bad place indeed inst
= ahead is a lesson.