Evening star., 1924-11-30
Parent-Teacher Activities

This column Is conducted by the
District Of Columbia Congress of Par
ent-Teacher Associations, branch OF
the National Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
All notices for this column must be
In the hands OF the chairman by noon
on the Wednesday preceding the Sun
day on which publication is desired
Address Mrs j. N. Saunders, 361S Por-
ter street northwest.
The Christmas fair of the District
of Columbia Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations will be held in
the Rochambeau, sl5 Connecticut ave
nue., December s. Mrs. Gertrude
Bischoff is the general chairman. The
object is to raise funds with which to
carry on the work Of the organiza-
ton. Tea will be served during the
afternoon and evening. The chair
men in charge of the different tables
are as follows:
Aprons. Mrs. F. D. Morris. president
Of the Woodburn Parent-Teacher As
sociation; arrangements. Mrs. E. w.
Patterson, president of the Wallach-
tea table, Mrs. A. J. Baker, president
Park View Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion; candy table, Mrs. G. NJ. Lady.
president Peabody -Holton Parent
Teacher Associations: wishing tree,
Mrs. c. H. Knight, Bradley Parent
Teacher Association; fancy work ta-
Bile, Mrs Edward Flanagan, Bright
wood Park Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion; cake table, Mrs. j. Fl. Fritz pres
tdent Edmonds Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation; delicatessen table, Mrs. Ed
win Bowling. John Burroughs Parent
Teacher Association.
Gen. S. T. Ansell, newly elected
president, will preside at the meeting
of the d. c. Public School Association
in the boardroom of the District
Building next Wednesday at 8 pm.
The membership chairman, Mrs.
Andrew Stewart, reports that the
Bennings ParentTeacher Associa-
tion had the largest attendance at
the October meeting of the District
of Columbia Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations, and that the
i.angdon Parent-Teacher Association
had the highest record at the Novem-
Der meeting, with the Edmonds
close second.
The lack of an assembly hall in the
hew junior high schools has been the
cause of much criticism on the part
of the parents of the pupils attend
ing these schools. At recent meet
ing of the Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion in one of these buildings the
parents had to sit in a long. narrow
hall in such a way that it was almost
impossible to hear the speakers.
Causes of Absence in One Grade
OF Fifteen Public Schools in wash
II H. II nf
pamphlet written by DR.. Louise Tay
lor-Jones and published by the United
States Public Health Service.
Money spent for salaries of timer
ant supervising teachers of art
music. physical training, etc, who
visit the classrooms only once in two,
three or four weeks, is money vast
ed" was stated by Dean w. c. Rued-
ger of the Teachers College, George
Washington University, at the Amer
lean Education week rally on Platoon
schools. THE curriculum compatible
with the requirements of the complex
social conditions of the present day
has" he said, far outgrown the ad
ministrative and organization provi-
sions for intoxicating it either eff
ticiently or economically.
The opponents of the platoon
school admit the value of the en-
riched curriculum and of partial de-
decentralization, but for some rea-
son object to the organization or
program which keeps in constant use
every facility the school plant
affords"
Like DR.. William NJ. Davidson of
Pittsburgh and many others among
the country'S outstanding educators,
Dean Ruediger regards the platoon
school as the biggest and finest ad-
vance of the century in elementary
education.
A statement issued in connection
with it's Education week program by
District Congress of ParentTeacher
Associations and addressed to every
local president was:
NO new building or enlargement
has been provided with an assembly
hall since 1920 except the Eastern
High School, and only one other (the
E. v. Brown addition) since 1917. Not
even the two newly constructed junior
high schools Oangley and Macfar
land, 1929 have been provided with
assembly halls. The following ele-
mentary schools have been enlarged
TO l6 or more rooms without provid-
ing them with assembly halls: Eaton,
Monroe, Takoma, West, Petworth,
wheatley and Buchanan, all opened in
1921 or 1922; and the Garrison and
Lovejoy colored school enlargements
in 1924. The enlargements of the
Burrville and Deanwood colored
schools to IL rooms each; the new s.
room buildings Burroughs, Kings
man, new Bell colored, Bancroft, Ray