Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-08

entirety for school purposes to provide
the facilities now needed.
g.: What method of providing these
facilities do you favor?
Between Home and
school.
I .o !, How often do you visit your
2. Do you know all of the teachers of
your child?
g. Do you always endeavor to adjust
with the teacher, first. all problems
which arise?
A. Do you always commend where
commentator is due?
5. Does there seem to be an atmos-
phere of harmony. cooperation and
helpfulness in your SCHOOL,. II not,
why?
Read "A schoolmaster of the Great
City" Angelo Patri-Macmillan.
The purpose of the sequence Of
this plan is that we should know %
the kind of education we want. t2)
the kind of instruction which will in
! sure 1T. CD the buildings and facili-
ties necessary for its operation, and
"a that only through our co-opera-
tion can 1t ever be secured or oper-
ated successfully.
Some of the suggestions submitted
should receive immediate considera-
tion and constitute near program:
others are easily distinguishable as a
far program"
1t is very desirable that each Par
ent-Teacher Association should make
yearly thorough study of the needs
of It's school and report fully to the
District association In order that a uni
ned program may be presented to
school authorities.
Few ofsus realize the real share of
our homes in the educa ton of our
children. Can the school teach as
much In one year as the home can in
twenty? Out of the 10000 hours be-
tween birth and the age of legal ma
turity. the child spends an average of
only 1000 hours in school. The rest
are passed in the home or in the
see from these figures how little
| must be the influence of the school
In the lives of our children. The
home was the first and still is the
| most important institution for the
education of children. All other
agencies OF education, however inn
rortant, however well organized. are
only secondary and supplementary to
the home and all of them do their
work best when they remember this
| and cooperate with the home. How
ever efficient our schools may be our
children can never be fully and
| rightly educated until the homes do
their part intelligently and faith
fully.
10000 undernourished school children
of New York that their children can
be restored to robust health Ahrough
proper feeding and exercise. Dr. Royal
s. Copeland. city health commissioner.
formed special nutrition class.
Twentv-nine of the pupils gained a
total of twenty-seven pounds during
the first week of the course of Sc
lected diet and mild exercise. Par
, ents of Washington take note of these
4 obi
normal
The Parent-Teacher Association is
! a group of parents and teachers
banded together to bring into closer
relationship two of the most impor-
| tant factors in community life-the
home and school-upon which success
or failure Of our national life de-
ponds. Home and school inseparable
! make the community; the community
the state; the state. the nation. 1t is
an organization auxiliary to the pub
! lie schools and is educat ionaI, non
sectarian and non-partisan. Its pur-
pose Is unity. cooperation and eff
cheney. Its aim is mental moral
physical and spiritual development of
the child in church, home. school and
state. 1t is the means of promoting
the best interests of the teachers and
children of our public schools. 1t
awakens the entire community to a
sense Of responsibility to childhood,
This Is the platform of the District
OF Columbia Congress Of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations, and Is
! founded on love, free from CONNER
cialism. unhampered by political or
religious bias. We Cooperate with
all organizations in the interest of
child welfare. but are not affiliated
with any.
Not only do the public schools in
the District of Columbia have moth
ers' clubs and parent-teacher associa :
tions, but we also have the ST PanI
Mothers Club of the Methodist
Church. which meets on the first Fri
day in the month at the home of a
member at o'clock in the evening
Mrs Fred Briggs Is president of the
association. Mrs. r. C. Carter and
Mrs Roy II. Wiseman are the dele
gates to the Congress of Mothers
This organization has been in exist :
ence for several years and has bean
doing wonderful work for good.
On Monday. April Q, the Edmonds
Mothers Club will meet in the school
at 3:45. Mrs j. H Fritz. the nrasj-
dent, Will. preside and Mrs. Virginia
White Speel will be the speaker.
The Peabody Parent-Teacber Az
ISOLATION will meet on Tuesday ar
2:S0. This will be a business meetinr
ana there Will be no speaker.
The Brightwood Park Parent