The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
TO
ORGANIZE THURSDAY
CLOSER COOPERATION BE-
TWEEN SCHOOL, TEACHERS
AND PARENTS IS AIM.

A deservedly popular picture of a
few years agoshad for its background
IN ordinary village or city one-story
rrsidence with the usual front yard
outlined by a picket fence The gate
stands open and a little fellow with
book and tablet under his arm strides
nridefully and yet fearfully away
leaving mother behind standing just
outside the gate as if she would fol-
low him. The caption underneath is,
This Day | Share My Child With
Another"
The tendency of modern civilization
+, to thrust too many of the original
home duties upon organizations This
+, in part true of the public schools
which came into existence through
necessity of economy in time and eff
fciency. To get rid of rather than to
share the duty with the public school
has been too often the parental atti-
tude.
Recognition of the sharing of the
children the part of both parent and
teacher will solve many a problem in
our modern school and home relation
ships. Strange to say at first thought
at least, our various organizations
have come to recognize an outside re-
sponsibility sooner than the home.
The Kiwanis and Rotary clubs come
to frequent aid of the school in va
rious emergencies, the u. D. c. and
d. A. r. chapters have been inestim-
able value especially in emphasizing
the historical departments of school
activities, the W. c. T. u, how Ell
iectually cannot be fully estimated,
has rendered most valuable service
to our nation and the individual
through the school in the special in
terests it fosters, and the Woman S
club has found the school a particu-
larly productive field for various pro-
grams it chooses to propagate and
the variety and scope Of its activities
and usefulness are surprisingly won
derful and far-reaching. And so on
for the other federated clubs and 9TH
er organizations.
But most of those at least, worthy
though they are, have backing their
efforts a program of definite accom-
plishment for their organization rath-
err than the plan of entering onto full
partnership with teacher and pupil in
sharing their plans, problems, posi-
bilities 1t is left to the Parent Teach
err Association to fulfill this need, to
recognize the duty of sharing in all
the many-sided interests OF school
life. to function as mother who. I'M
derstands her child's peculiar cKarac-
teristics in cooperation with teacher
who needs to understand that nature
to be able to accomplish the deserved
training of this developing PERSONAL
ty.
The patrons of the Dawson schools
who have heretofore tried otherwise
10 meet this particular obligation to
child and teacher have come to be
Teve the PIT. A. the proper organi-
cation for the purpose and will meet
Thursday afternoon, February 10th, at
o'clock, in the high school audlto-
rum to organize and begin the asso-
cations work Then can they truly
say, To-day We Share Our Child With
Another" All friends and patrons OF
the school are urgently requested to
be present and help effect the organ
ization.
Our teachers who have been accus-
toned to this organizations aid are
sorelv missing it and welcome with
delight the prospects for an enthuslas-
tic effective PIT. A. Those taking an
active interest in the movement are
not given to doing things by halves.
so the association gives promise OF
success from the very beginning.
This together with the undiminiSh-
ed activities OF the other clubs who
are proving SO helpful should mean
much brighter prospects for better
school system in Dawson.