Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-08-31

us of any students absence from
! school when he should be in at
tendance will be appreciated.
FOLLOW UP WORK
If all parents would follow the
progress of their childrens work
during the school year it will un-
doubtedly encourage the student to
do better and help to insure his pro-
motion at the end of the year. This
would also help to avoid disappoint-
ment and unpleasantness at the end
of the year. Sometimes parents feel
that they are not kept sufficiently
posted of the progress of their chill
dren and when they fail they blame
the teacher and school. If these
parents would watch the marks on
tho report cards closer this feeling
and its resulting unpleasantness
would be avoided. Teachers are al
most always pleased to have parents
confer with them about the progress
of their children during the school
| year. After school is out is too late
TO help make up for past poor schol-
arship.
We will again have twelve grade
rooms and keep our average room
attendance down to a workable num-
DCl ne MS IL SClAOOA COuloC VI 0lOOg
will remain the same. We will have
an efficient well-balanced commercial
course for our regular high school
students. 1t is hoped, however, that
irregular students Will not ask for
this work as the department is II
crowded and our experience with part
time irregular commercial students
has been unsatisfactory. They take
more than their share of the teach
er's time and have in most cases
dropped out of their classes before
accomplishing enough to be of value
to them. Graduation from our high |
school means that the graduate is
eligible to enter the best of our great |
universities. Students should re-
member, however, that the best of
these institutions are now picking
their students and judge almost en-
tirely on scholarship. Some, espe-
cially Stanford University, are now
taking less than half of the grad
uates of accredited high schools that
apply for entrance. Two of our
class of 1928, Walter Green and Ed
ward Pence, applied for admission
to this university this year and both
were accepted. This is an honor to
both boys as they are just out of
high school and are very young for
university students.
TEACHING CORPS
First grade-Ida Hergesheimer.
First and Second grades-Fern Dee.
Second grade-Pauline Mitchell.
Third grade-Ailie Lahtinen
Third and Fourth grades-Kather-i
inc Tautfest.
Fourth grade-Melvena Tautfest.
Fifth grade-Ruby Riddle.
Fifth and Sixth grades-Gladys Mar
cellus.
Sixth grade-Amsel MeKern.
Seventh grade-Mabel Clark.
Seventh and Eighth grades-Lucilel
Updegraft.
Eighth grade-Luella Sillivan.
Music and Art-Helen Wetherell.
Palmer.
Languages in high sehool-Nellie M.
Anderson.
English and Library-Helen Scott
History Matte Groefsema.
Commercial-Bertha E. Hays.
Science and Athletics - Harry R.
Rankley.
and High School Prin-
cipal-J. J. Simpson. i
Observation-Disclosures H. Nixon Ii
1t is hoped that parents and pa {
irons will visit school and become Z
acquainted with those who are en- 9
trusted with the instruction of their /
children.
COOPERATION
We live in a time when coopera- +
ion is receiving a great amount of +
attention. The writer and our teach 8
rs have keenly appreciated that al +
most every parent means to and does +
five a good measure of help in help
ng to secure results in school. It
S very true, however, that this
chool as well as others have a few
Who hinder the progress and welfare
# their children by doing and say s
ng things which undermine the s
hild's faith in his teacher and causel n
lim to not do his best in his work.
his sometimes results in failure to W
e promoted and again the blame is o.
ut in the wrong place. We realize e
hat we are all human and are not 81
erfect. Teachers are instructed to m
ever let their personal feelings in
luence their dealings with their b,
tudents or in any way influence n,
hem in making grades or determin- OF
ng promotions. 1t is an undeniable p,
act that most teachers. the same as +,
II ObnCI Anu1NIuudlb uEdliuR Mltul lp
he public, have some who are not cc
ltisfied with their work. If those to
issatisfied ones would come to the 81
sacher in a friendly way and talk tn
yer the situation with reference to mi
ne student concerned there would nj
ssult an understanding that would ov
ear up nine tenths of all misunder- ch
and hard feelings. 1t is eli
n unfortunate fact that there are
any schools that are hampered and m
-iticized adversely so much that sp
ley never satisfy regardless of who a.
in charge or who the teachers are. M
he responsibility for a successful n,
hool rests about evenly on parents tn
id patrons on one side and on the as
hool board and those in charge Of al
lie schools on the other When an m,
1usua1 story is heard about school 81;
, teachers it is usually best to find III
1t whether there is a germ of truth so
it or none at all before passing it in.
/. Gossip, in school matters, as
ell as in others, often does a world Or
harm and makes innocent ones tht