Evening star., 1940-11-12
CoveredUp Dinner Clothes Among Fashions Shown This
Parents Must
Visit Child
In School
Acquaintance With
Teachers Helps
The Student
By ANGELO PATRI.


If you have a child in school visit
his classroom this week, the one
week in the year set aside for the
better acquaintance and deeper un-
derstanding that ought to hold
between teachers and parents of
school pupils.
Rearing a child is a lifework
of the utmost Importance to the
family and the Nation and it does
seem that the responsibility it places
on both teachers and parents war
rants close association between
them. When you think that a
child lives in the school for the
best part of each day under the
influence of teaching, guided by its
principles, headed into life by its
forces, that parents ought to be
excited about what goes on there.
Few are A visit to the school is
rarely made until an emergency de-
mands it.
| Parents see the physician who
attends their child. They see and
they know something about the
qualities of the clergyman who is
in charge of their spiritual needs.
They usually are concerned about
the friends their children make.
Rarely do they know the teacher
who has, next to themselves, the
greatest possible influence on their
childs future.
Bobbie was not doing well In
school, so mother wrote notes to
the teacher. The teacher wrote back
to mother, and although the notes
were pointed and voluminous Bobbie
continued to do poorly until some
body in the school discovered that
both Bobbie and his teacher were
hard of hearing.
Instead of Bobbie being feeble
minded, as the teacher hinted, he
was bit deaf in one ear, and in
stead Of the teachers being a bad
tempered. impatient old crab, as his
mother thought her to be, she was
bit hard of hearing in the ear
next to Bobbie. Once they under
stood each other all was well, but
a whole term of unhappiness might
have been saved for all concerned
had the mother called on the
teacher by appointment and learned
to know her and her way with
children.
Knowing how a child looks in his
classroom beside his classmates is
revelation to most parents.
why, I never knew that Mary
| hella clnuy until cour hor
in class. Why, those children had
the examples worked and up on
their feet ready with the answer
before she got her pencil licked we'll
enough to put down the first figure.
never was so stunned in all my
life. There she sat, licking the
point of her pencil, and everybody
else raring to tell the answer. No
wonder the teacher said she was
slow. She's going to see the doctor
tomorrow morning"
Sometimes parents get a happy
surprise. One father, dragged re-
luctantly to school by his son on
whom he looked with discouraged
eye because of his low averages, was
moved to enthusiastic applause for
his boy when he heard him play
SOLO on the violin.
I'D never have believed it. He
can get all the Bs he likes. If he
can play like that he'll do. Never
would l have believed it, He is his
grandfather again. a musician"
Teachers become regular people
on close acquaintance. Children
under the influence of the school
and the teachers become strangely
efficient and wonderfully intelligent
so that seeing them together in
school becomes a startling and most
informing experience for the pa
rents. Go to your school this week
and see what happens there in
terms of your child
Mr.. Patri has prepared a
leaflet entitled, Fear" in which
he relates that fear can be a
protection and a menace. You
should read it. Send for it, ad-
dressing your request to Mr..
. Angelo Patri, care of The Evening
, Star, and inclose a elf-addressed
stamped (3-cent) envelope.
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