Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-26
Schools SURVEY
Outlines Needs

Hope of the future and bitterly
learned lessons of the past are re-
flected in the results of a survey
County School Superintendent E. l.
Hiteman conducted in an effort to
determine what parents want their
children to get from the schools of
Imperial county.
He conducted the survey at the
request Of the state department of
education. Similar surveys are being
conducted throughout the state.
IN brief the parents generally
wanted the schools to:
develop pleasing personalities.
2-Develop obedience and self
control
3-Develop a health program =
stressing cleanliness in body and
mind.
4-Develop cooperation.
5-Teach reading, writing and
arithmetic.
G-Teach children how to live in
q democracy.
ss7--Develop ways and means of
spending leisure time.
.81Develop children to grow emo
tionally as well as physically.
9-Teach children to think for
themselves.
DEFINITE IDEAS
AS revealed by the sllyey Hite-
man found that parents had
definite ideas of the manner in
which their wishes could be reached
and many of them presented a clear
understanding of the problems
facing school officials and the chill
dren themselves.
Under the major heading of per
sonality development" the following
facts were brought out in the
survey:
Citizenship tpractical demo-
cratic organization in school
!. To promote the development
and growth of the kind of citizen
our democracy needs in peace and
In war. To maintain and operate
a practical democratic organization
in the school as an institution. To
insure the quality of citizenship es-
sential to the winning of the peace.
To point the educational program
with special emphasis on vision,
courage, cooperation (teamwork,
loyalty, tolerance service and pre-
paration for postwar living.
B-Character:
l. To guide children morally,
spiritually sand mentally, thus de-
veloping honesty, dependability,
responsibility, helpfulness, courtesy,
reverence, truthfulness a n d
obedience
C+Health physical and mental:
l. To maintain physical and
social environment conducive to the
best physical and mental health.
2. To establish habits of personal
health and hygiene including ~knewl-
edge of nutrition and foods.
3. To improve the individual and
community life of the present and
future through physical education
activities; to establish positive,
vigorous, and abounding physical
health through the medium OF
strenuous body building activities.
4. To educate home and school to
the value of public health service
and available in their community.
D-Personal Goals and Ideals:
l. To develop within the child the
initiative or desire to attain both
Immediate and ultimate goals in
life.
2. To encourage students to set
up standards or goals to attain.
8. To develop within the student
a-sense of self-reliance and salts
faction.
E-Worthy Use of Leisure Time
/. The measure of man is not
s0ssmuch the vigor with which he
recoils from the task as the direc-
ton of the release. If he learned
in school to build something for
himself, to play a musical 'instru-
ment, to succeed as a dramatlst, to
create a comely design, to enjoy a
good book, to judge and execute
work of art, even if it be a bit OF
landscape gardening, or to con-
verse intelligently with friend, SO
that he springs toward distinctly
ennobling avocations as readily as
in the direction of mere physical
play, he is on the way toward the
fuller aspects of life. Where his
heart is, there will be his treasure.
1t Is well established fact that
crimes and misdemeanors in the
school and in the state are caused
by unused and misdirected energies.
Pupils should have training in
making up a budget of time, and OF
using it all profitably and enjoyably
SUGGESTIONS OFFERED
Interpretation of worldwide in
terdependence was one of the main
topics developed in the, survey.
These items were suggested -
A-Preparation For Post War
Living:
1. To learn that all people, every
where, are, first of all, human
beings like ourselves; and, being
human, they have certain rights,
problems, desires, and obligations
even as we.
2. To bring forth that learning
which will enable us TO live and
work together with all people in an
atmosphere of understanding, trust
and mutual respect. 49,,
8. To promote an understanding
of world problems through the study
of the habits and customes, eco
nornics and geography. the history
and traditions, government, and re-
ligion of every significant people on
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