The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-01
CUT OUT THE HOME WORK.

In the grade schools of certain city consid-
cradle petty thieving annoyed teachers and par
from lockers or desks. One indignant mother
whose daughter reported the loss of her new
gym shoes wrote to the papers about 1t and
voiced demand that the schools give more
attention to instruction in morals. The lady
probably believes in noble experiments. An
other contributor to the symposium intimated
that the teachers were to blame because they
encouraged carelessness or something. Finally
a teacher jumped In and elucidated the prob
lem. 1t all goes back to the homework
Seems lot Of parents or good natured I'M
cles and aunties can't forget their own child
hood. They have deplorable habit Of helping
Jonquil and Bartholomew with their home
work. In fact, well trained parents do prac-
tically all of 1t, and then Jonk and Bart proud
ly carry the finished product to school and basls
in the teachers smiles and get fine marks and
make the school proud of them. And all the
time time the teachers who are getting by with
1t Is system of adult education they are pro-
noting. But 1t is the system on which tho
school is run and the board. creature Of pa
tronage and instrument Of graft, frowns on any
disturbance Of the cut and dried system, so
that even IL a teacher here and there were sick
and tired Of the silly business he or she Is pow
erless to say or do anything about 1t. In such
politically we'll creased machine q mere
| teacher Is In no position to start q one-man re-
bellion.
should have nothing to say about the mat
| ter If the moral depravity due to homework
We're the only objection Health Is my province
am not concerned about morals. For health's
sake every sensible parent should put his foot
| down hard at the first Eruption Of the evil
scotch 1t the very first time Jonquil or Bart
drags home load Of lessons that should be
done at school.
AS an innocent bystander have been OBJ.
serving this homework evil for years. have
found that the best grade schools and high
| schools have the least homework or none at all
while the poorest schools with the least com.
petent teaching staff have the most homework
| 1t Is the poor alibi Of broken down pedagogy
I have noticed, too, that In schools where
homework Is couRtenanced teachers or princi.
| NJ
schoolday fdde-faddling. They evidently feel
that the children's time Is not worth much
| got lot Of time at home to make up for what
the teacher or principal 80 prodigally squan-
| ders in school?
A business man or woman knows that It ID
| unwise to carry business home. Why can't the
same common sense be applied to this home
or II Il s
| then lengthen the school day.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
| Strangers Need Doctors.
We are newcomers here ana while we have
not required medical attention so far, we won.
der what we should do five did need q physi.
| can (Mrs II. Il. To
4 Answer-The local County Medical society
probably has an office or bureau for informa.
directory and ask the bureau for the names Of
reputable physicians or specialists.
Use our Elbow
Please send me the proper method to clear
the wax from the inner ear canal. IN. Il. LIZ
| Answer-Clean It out once In $50 years ant
use only your elbow In the ear canal It Is dan
gerous to attempt to remove wax from the ea
canal, until your physician has taught you how
Ordinary external washing is alls that norma
persons require.
The Ills Called isheumatlsm
I understand you have treatment 70
chronic disabling rheumatism. "a. H. Fly
AnSwer-T haven't. Send a dime Ono
stamps) and stamped envelope bearing you
address: and ask for the booklet THE III
Called rheumatism" II gives the best sugses
tions can offer about treatment.
Copyright, 1888, John r. Ollie Coz