Evening star., 1943-08-29


Board of Education Threefold Plan
By JESSE C. sUTER.
Adult, Not Juvenile Delinquency MAY Be the Problem
Exploring the socaIed discussed juvenile delin-
problem solution ncnes one to reach the
conclusion that the real probeno ad,t and ot i s,;
quency systematic and conscientious
get at the bottom of the problem analysis
the required solutions.
In Illuminating by Henry Graan DOYLE pres
cent OF the Board OF Education in the Chevy
Chase Citizen there is told the under way
by the school board to attack the problem practical
fective The handling the matter
wartime and immediate postwar problems
The plan is threeod the step being study by school
oeials OF the problem in the Junior high
the formation in school community composed of
school people parents and leaders in the community is
the appointment of twide committee advisory
OF Education on the problems of the child.
The Advisory Committee is of representatives
religious faiths the home the social agencies recreation
leaders officials of the Health Department. Court Police
Department Education The president of the
board the chairman of the committee
Studies under the first have
supplied interesting information junior high
schools opinion greatest
causes of juvenile delinquency Consolidated
greatest causes Of juvenile de-
nquency in this order Lack of discipline
ken homes g. insufficient effort at home
the junior high schools were: Lack
OF discipline in the home Broken homes Bad environment
With overcrowded living conditions close fourth
These reports showed that juvenile delinquency
itself In the form truancy dsrespec and dsordery
school.
suggested by the teachers to reduce the deln-
placed particular emphasis throughout system
wholesome supervised recreation. should be
responsibilities g. Stronger dis
cpne the discipline Closer
cooperation between home and school, Closer
vision Of the child in the home
discussion says MANY parents feel that
strict discipline hurts children them
childish instincts therefore shield
things disageeabe including hard work There unkindnes
to children greater than turning them
individuals things
not been made to stick to job until it is finished
THE discipline of magnificent
of young they
dangerous heroic tasks without ncng
homes disciplined and ready to take their places in civilian life
Is necessary that they not find home slightly
that through lack parental SUPERVISION spending
through discipline are not their
equals in meeting the problems of the postwar period
"As stated beginning" Doyle "he
hreefod plan of the Board of Education will play
In the training young people
citizens but the first responsibility children
Homes where mothers and fathers together that children
are disciplined that they attend church. that they
conditions and wholesome food that they proper recreation
are now, as always, the strength of country"
Evidence supports the findings in the
studies the first step of the plan
case one citizen on this problem
writes to this observer problem appears
in of thwart our efforts Or
children who are delinouen come from the homes o drunken
ents insufficient (wretched)
This problem, while probably under the
peculiar wartime conditions by something the
District OF Columbia Damage school and private property
berry and other the
subject of deep by Department the Juvenile
Court and the school officials.
downtown business Office has been annoved freouenv
by the entrance things
generally and all the
The police would be called scamper avay
When the policemen asked they grab
OF those boys and take them their parents
would do good the would cor
recting them Then, they why into
court Here the policeman explained that
that he would have to loaf around the Juvenile long
time his time off and then the nothing
would be done with the culprit for his bad
situation the policeman confessed that he feeling
court really regarded the officer arrestng the
boy
The president of the Board
that OF the others indicates clearly that problem
one OF Juvenile delinquency but that parents
are the real delinquens
The injunction is laid down in the
proverbs Train child the should
old ne will not depart from it, Proverb xx6) The
ton OF course that the training the
cooperation of the clergy and the teachers
Some wise philosopher has said that the
child should begin with the grandparents
cuene Of parents Of today said
and training OF the grandparents
There an increased Importance solving problem
and for all time when is are
the grandparents OF the future Unless
On the proper foundation and they right direction