The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-09-17
Cooperation Of Parents
Asked by Supt. w. Kohl

throughout the entire school life
Too often students drift along with
out realizing the significance of the
situation in which they travel un
guided and, since they go through
high school but once, it is impor
tant that they be guided by the
home and by the school. There
fore, since the Junior High School
age is experimental age, then the
Senior High School must offer more
specialized courses which in turn
should give opportunity for re-
search and background for the
student. Thus those who go on to
college or university have the re.
quisite for good work in those in
stitutions, while those who only go
through high school will have got
ten the most out of their High
School course.
The new curriculum just received
from the State Department stresses
the Importance of individual work,
careful guidance and more exact
measurement of the pupils abili-
ties through a well set up testing
program. The job of living is an
individual task though one may be
a member of social group. The
experience of the student should
provide for the adjusting of him
self to the world as an individual.
Therefore it is this need that the
newly reorganized viewpoint in edu-
cation hopes to fill.
Mentalities in school fall gener-
ally into three groups and it is
teaching these A. B. c groups, as
they are called, that is known as
the three levels teaching. This pro-
cedure is being inaugurated in the
Sank Center Schools. Bright pupils
should be given opportunity to
read and to enrich their back
ground in subject. Likewise the
other two groups should be given
an opportunity to assimilate as
much as possible.
Often parents cause hardship on
their children by insisting that
their abilities are such that the
work done in school should COM
pare with the brightest and some
time with the slowest. The school
should have records to show the
mental abilities as well as the
scholastic work done by the pupils.
The ideal situation in education is
that the pupils and students should
work without unreasonable pres
sure from home and teachers.
In the matter of choice of course,
it is considered good logic and
common sense that when a certain
course has been chosen by an in
dividual he must follow it through
to the end. One of the worst evils
in our high school education is
that so many students graduate
with patched up courses and hence
they become misfits from the
standpoint of having good back
ground.
It is good sound advise to let
your child take only four subjects
every year for four years and have
him get a thorough grounding in
every subject with good back
ground in all subjects, than have
him take five or six and get just
the minimum essentials Of each
course. The demands made Of edu-
cation today calls for more than
the skeleton Of a high school
course. It is enriched content that
leads to culture and intelligence.
The State Department of Educa-
ton has stressed absuiutely that
there is to be no merchandising
or overlapping in the matter of
taking subjects. That is freshman
should take his own prescribed
course and is not allowed to take
sophomore subjects; nor a sopho-
more is not allowed to take junior
subjects, etc. Therefore this ruling
is made for the purpose of keeping
the indidiual within the realm of
his mental ability and study hab-
its. A student enrolled in a certain
class may take one subject with
class below him. Beginning with
this year, a rule is in effect where
by student will be forbidden the
privilege of graduation if the pre-
scribed course of study is not
strictly adhered to. Only in cases
where the work in high school is
to be completed in a private school
or when in a larger high school
the subject placement may be diff
ferent. In other words, though we
are trying to adjust the difficult
ties to the point Of complete sat
isfaction, we must adhere to stand
ards. Those students who plan to
graduate from the Sank Centre
High School should remain chan
nelled and follow the course as
chosen.
The matter of character educa-
ton cannot be stressed too greatly
these days. A course Is now under
way for introduction into our
schools. We have begun the teach
ing of certain principles of char
acter by giving to each pupil and
student enrolled in our schools
character card. The teachers are
using this card as a basis for our
discipline and character stimula-
ton. The parents should cooperate
by insisting that their children