Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-10-07
Demonstration Aids in WHIP
ing Out Delinquency.

New York.-Ten cities in which
three-year demonstrations Of visiting
teacher work have been completed I'M
der the auspices Of the commonwealth
fund program for the prevention of de-
linquency have determined to continue
the use Of visiting teachers as regular
feature Of their public school systems.
According to Howard W. Nudd, di-
rector Of the Public Educational asso-
citation of New York city and chairman
OF the national committee on visiting
teachers which has administered these
demonstrations, the communities thus
convinced Of the value of the visiting
teacher and planning to continue her
services include Burlington, Vt, Lin
coin, Neb. Richmond, Va. Red Bank,
N j.; Kalamazoo, Mich; Sioux City,
Iowa Bluetield, W. Va; Sioux Falls,
S, D.; Warren, Ohio, and Hutchinson,
Kan.
Meanwhile, demonstrations are being
continued by the national committee on
visiting teachers in the following COM
munities: Berkeley, Cal; Birming-
nam, Ala; Boone county, Missouri;
Butte, Mont; Charlotte, N. c.; CHS
holm, Mimi. Gainesville, Pa; Column
bus, Ga. Detroit, Mich. Durham, N.
g.; Eugene, Ore; Huron county, Ohio;
Omaha, Neb. Pocatello, Idaho; Ra-
cine, Wis; Rochester, Pa; Rock
Springs, Wyo.; San Diego, CAL; Tue
son, Ariz.; Tulsa, Okla.
Appointed by Committee.
When the work is finished in these
cities the thirty visiting teacher dem
Onstrations under the commonwealth
fund program will have been COM
pleted. Under the arrangements made
for these demonstrations the visiting
teachers were appointed by the ma
tional committee on visiting teachers
subject to the approval of the local
authorities; in each case the national
committee pays two-thirds of the sal
airy for a three-year period and pro-
vides funds for certain additional ex-
penses, while the remainder of the sal
airy is paid by the local school board.
Several hundred cities have made APP
plication for demonstrations under this
plan, but the thirty communities pro-
vided for in the original grant from
the commonwealth fund having been
chosen, no further applications are now
being considered.
Including the visiting teachers ap-
pointed by the national committee for
these demonstrations there are now al
together 1856 visiting teachers in the
United States working in GA cities and
g counties scattered through "a states.
These figures are given by Mr. Nudd
in a chapter on the history, purpose
and scope of the visitlng-teacher move
ment, which he contributes to "The
Problem Child in School," a volume of
visiting teacher case narratives by
Mary b. Sayles, just published by the
Joint Committee on Methods of Pre-
venting Delinquency, Inc, of so East
Forty-second street, New York city.
Describing the visiting teacher as a
specialist in the schools who devotes
herself to the problems of unadjusted
children, Mr.. Nudd, in the article above
referred to, points that every teacher,
every social worker, and many a
parent is familiar with the problem
child-the boy or girl whose school
progress or whose reactions to normal
requirements point toward later ineffi-
cheney, delinquency, or some other fail
ure in personal or social adjustment.
What is the trouble with such children,
and what can be done for them? How
can the school obtain and utilize a
knowledge of the forces that are affect
ing their success, and give them in
fullest measure the benefits of their
educational experience? Puzzles or
pests at home, in school, or elsewhere