The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22
KNOW YOUR OWN SCHOOLS.


the development of any child, are mother, father
and teachers. It is Just possible that we have
placed them in the wrong order and that IN
LOT of cases it should read teacher, mother
and father" but the three considered together
make up most of the important elements In
the training of any boy or girl. 1t is out OF the
question to overlook anyone OF these II you
hope TO have the boy or girl get the right klnd
of development.
We have been living pretty fast IN recent
years and lot of the good Of the olden days
has been crowded out by some OF the question:
able good of the present time. Its possible
that we have grown better and wiser, out we
have forgotten some things.
One of these things is frequent visits to the
school where YOUR boy or your girl is trying
to get an education. 1t may be that you con-
slider it little boresome to go over and spend
an hour or two with the teachers and the chill
dren once in awhile, but a lot of the Important
things in life are boresome.
Do you happen to know the name OF your
bows teacher? Can you say Good Morning
to her when you meet her on the street? Has
she ever visited your home? Have you ever
talked with her about the future of that boy
or girl or showed any interest in the environ
ments thrown about them in the school room.
Possibly you have been overlooking this one
best bet to make the development OF your chill
dren along lines most pleasing to you. Ii you
have you can get back into the right course
this week.
1t is 'Visit the Schools Week and a most
cordial invitation has been issued to everyone
in Kenosha to make use of the week IN getting
better acquainted with the schools. It's worth
while to take advantage Of the invitation.
A good school can be made lot better if it
gets into close touch with good home. Teach
ers and fathers and mothers should be close
friends and counselors. The education OF
boy and girl goes forward best when the teach
er knows all there is to know about the boy or
girl and the best way to get this information
is from the parents.
Parental interest should find it's first ex-
preston in interest in the school, where the
children attend. It matters not whether it is
public or parochial school. You should know
all there is to know about it. You should know
the teachers well enough to ask them to come
over to the house to dinner sometime. You are
working with the teacher to make your chill
dren better fitted to do something and to be
something and the teacher is entitled to a
little kindly interest. 1t is pretty hard for you
to supplement school work at home, if you are
entirely ignorant of the work which is done in
the school
1t may be years since you visited the school.
1t may be that your only memory of such
visit was not particularly pleasing, but possibly
these new times have brought changes in the
schools and you owe it to the children to know
these changes in order that you may adopt
your part of the program to the school part.
Visit the school week should be made the
most important week in the year. 1t can be
made the basis for great advance in the
schools in Kenosha. School officers want con-
gtructive and not destructive criticism. You
cannot give constructive criticism unless you
know what you are talking about.
Visit the schools tomorrow and see to it that
bther people visit them during the week.