The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-04-04

ers tossed the responsibility back to the par
ents. The chances are that the blame rests
with the parents.
Anyhow boy or girl who is attending
school at public expense owes it to the
community to put in his best ticks in order to
make the most of his opportunity.
If any boy or girl SO far fails to appre-
ciate the wonderful opportunity of free
education then he should have the grace to
Immediately make room for someone who
is willing to work in order to become better
equipped mentally to engage in the battles
of life.
The girl who gives more time to bleach
ing her hair, going to parties and playing
around than she does studying her plane
geometry, her Virgil or her English had bet
ter remain at home to help her mother with
the housework She will at least be doing
something worth while.
The boy who spends more time rolling
pills, knocking clay balls into pockets and
driving his fathers car than he does on his
algebra his Caesar or his manual training
better get job somewhere and go to work
rather than to longer sponge on the public
in frittering away his time at school,
The cost of the education is so great that
only those of sincere purpose should be toll
Grated in our high schools and colleges.
In the grades all of the children should
be made to attend and to study. But when
they enter the high School they are old enough
to realize the wonderful opportunity which
is theirs and they should be willing to make
the most of t.-Anoka Herald.
If the little screed had been written abou
the college freshman class, should say it i
right good editorial; if it had been writer
about high school senior junior class, W.
would sanction most of it. Even it stands W.
heartily endorse what it says about parents, be
cause being one of "them things" ourselves, WI
are in position to know that parental faults are
many
But we cans agree that freshmen, high
school freshman of the present day, should be
condemned because they haven't the maturity
Of judgment to realize what privilege is theirs
in being allowed to attend high school. The
fault lies rather in the present day school sys
tenn which allows children of such tender years
to enter the freshmen class. One can't expect
much sanity of judgment nor appreciation OF
privileges from children of twelve or thirteen
years, and that is the age at which many children
enter upon their high school work 1t is toe
the fault of this does not lie in the
children but with the parents who are ambitious
for them to make good showing, and with
crowded school conditions which make it impera
tive that classes shall advance in body to make
room for equally crowded classes that follow.
Then there is another element which may
enter into this failure. The high school system
is entirely different from that followed in the
first enght grades; teaching methods are differ
ont cubioctS arc more abstract and less easily
followed by, the immature mind, the work Il
done under the direction of several teachers in
stead of one, the social atosmphere is different
and the average child is having hard time a
that age to adjust himself to many, man!
things. We have all the sympathy in the worlt
with freshman who fails to make the grade
sometimes, when we see what mites OF human
beings most of them are, wish they could al
spend at least two good long years in the fresh
men class and not grow up so fast. We hold nj
brief for the upper classmen" but let us have &
heap of patience with the Freshies