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nr'FTY PROGRAM,
50 COLBERT HIGH SCHOOL
The following program will be
\ , hy the Phi Gamma Literary
FiWay* October 24th, at the
Colbert High School Auditorium.
<. r? —Bv School
; t riptore-P>'l Wrk
Alton Herring
HiMtes— By Secretary
peadinir —Marguerite Sims
npUamatien —Howe Hampton
Dialogue— tiecil Hardman ami Su
eie Kate Kincaid
Recitation— Mildred Patterson
Declamation— Morris Herring
Phr-o Solo—Jeanette Steed
■Quartette —Annie Gillispie, Tenme
Mathews, Yates Ross, Edwin
Hart
dialogue. “Hasty Opinions'—By El
;0 Hardman, O’neil Griffeth,
Harold Griffeth, Nelta Butler.
WHAT PARENTS SHOULD LOOK
for IN visiting schools
Ont of the slogans for American
Education week, Nov. 17-28, is
•“Visit your schools today livery
school superintendent, principal, and
teacher in the country is continually
urging parents to visit the schools.
In fact, thousands of parents do visit
the schools each year—some on spe
cial occasions, as a school exhibit or
Friday afternoon exercise, and some
when the schools are engaged in the
regular classroom work. Whatever
the time of the visit may be, much
good should result. The home and
the school should be brought closer
together. It is evident that the
school can not assume full responsi
bility for the success of the pupils in
their work. The home must cooper
ate, If the parents visit the schools
they can better learn what is their
share of the responsibility in the ed
ucation of their children.
The effectiveness of the schools
of a community depends largely upon
the interest that the people tak4 in
them. In a community where par
ents visit the schools, become ac
quainted with the teachers and learn
all that they can about the condi
tions under which the teachers and
pupils work, there are likely to be
better schools than in the community
where no parent ever steps inside
the schoolhouse door.
Carping criticism often comes
from those persons who never look
inside a schoolroom but who depend
upon “gossip” for information,
first-hand information is always
best; therefore those parents who
are really interested in the schools
"dii visit them several times during
ach term.
Many parents do not visit the
schools because they feel that they
*re not competent to judge the class
room work. They say that teaching
is a profession and that the layman
should no more make suggestions to
the teachers as to methods of in
struction than he would to a physi-
Clan as to the kind and ouantity of
medicine to administer. All of this
15 but there are numerous rea
sons why parents should visit the
'chools. There are many things
htat they can observe.
Recently the Bureau of Education
addressed a letter to about 50 city
■chool superintendents asking them
■ parents should visit the schools,
wh. i they should observe, and what
•"■ ’'mation they should seek of the
Principals and teachers. The follow
‘ ’2 !s a summary of their replies:
Kea Son Parents Should Visit the
*• To keep in touch with the work
cf tH'r children.
0 fp
'■’ ! o encourage the teache r 3
3. To rrpt- infr,'-rpation a*
o‘‘ 0 ‘‘ ’" c work of the schools.
To 'how them to
J ( with the administration of
tf * school.
i *'e r>rpils to know that par
■ '‘hers
ti" and d'ar’olinß.
• jo hr ’orr e acau? : nted perron
' n teachers ar.d principals.
School Note?
7. To learn at firsthand the con
ditions under which their children
spend five hours a day.
8. To learn the problems children
must meet (course of study, easy
studies, difficult studies, time sched
ules, etc.)
i 9. To make it more possible for
school officials to interpret to par
ents the policies under which the
school operates.
10. To advise school authorities
as to the needs of the district as seen
ftrom the parent’s standpoint.
11. To assist in obtaining certain
things for the school that some dis
tricts seem unable to offer, such as
cafeteria Jfcpiipment, Victffolas, mo
tion picture equipment, etc.
12. To know the conditions and
needs of the school so that they may
intelligently defend the reputation
of the schools and assist in keeping
the schools from being commercial
ized and propaganized.
111. To view their children from
an angle other than that of the home
and thus be able to guide more
wisely their development.
14. In order that parents them
selves may understand and appreci
ate changes in courses of study.
15. To secure an accurate idea of
the objectives of modern education
and to find out how these objectives
are being workel out in practice.
16. To aid in developing the real
school spirit in the community.
What to Observe
1. The sanitary condition of the
school building
2. The general discipline and man
agement of the school.
8. The attitude of the teacher
toward the children.
4. The attitude of the children
toward the teacher.
5. The sis.e of the classes.
6. The supply of supplementary
material as maps, dictionaries, etc.
7. The physical conditions under
which teachers and pupils are work
ing.
8. Facilities offered for the de
velopment of the health of the chil
dren—playgrounds, nuTses’ quar
ters, etc.
9. To what extent their own chil
dren participate in school activities.
10. Equipment of school especial
ly as relates to library, gymnasium,
shop instructional material, etc.
Information Parents Should Seek
1. What parents can do to help
the school.
2. Whether any had habits have
been noted in pupils.
3. What is the general school suc
cess of the child.
4. Are the teachers’ salaries ade
quate.
" 5. What are the qualifications
demanded of the teaching force.
6. General policies of the schcoi
department.
7. Specific facts about parents’
own children.
8. Per capita cost as compared
With that of other cities.
9. Whether the child is working
up to his full capacity as deternined
by intelligence and educational tests.
10. What are the vocational ten
dencies of the child if any are man
ifest.
]l. Purooses of the various
■courses of study.
12. Reasons for making or not
making changes in course of study.
13. Finances of school district,
tax rate, indebtedness, etc.
14. Is pupil in course best suited
to his capacity and needs.
15. Does puoil show any special
aptitudes; disabilities.
1(5. Has pupil too many outside
activities.
17. Is pupil courteous and helpful
18. Does pupil enter into a suffi
j eient number of student activities.
i J 9. What provisions ere made
j for backward and for superior cbil
;dren.
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HOUSES and LOTS
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W. L. HARDM *iN
|9-18’tf Colbert, Ga..
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THE OAftlELavtlxe MONITOR. DANIELSVILLE. GEORGIA.
This Week
By Avi'bui: Lirwbcs’ta
NATION Of IMBICILES.
GOOD START, BAD liND.
WASHINGTON’S TENTH.
RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.
TO BE RICH AND USEFUL
At Dayton a lighter-thar-air fly
ing machine carried up with it a
small airplane, as a fish hawk car
ries up a fish. Two thousand feet,
up the little airplane was released
by .the big Zeppelin and went fly
ing off on its own account. That’s
interesting in this country which
has made no preparation to meet
the danger of invasion through the
air.
Imagine a similar machine, ten
times as b g, leaving the coast of
Asia, o” Europe, carrying beneath
it a dozen high powered bombing
machines. Imagine that big ship
coming out of the early morning
sky, releasing itr brood of swift
destroyers to wreck cities the
mother ship and the little ships sub
sequently landing on safe neutral
ground in Canada.
This nation will have the world’s
greatest fighting fleet of airships
soon, or (he United States of 1924
will be known in later history aa
“THE NATION OF IMBECILES.”
In the Middle Ages not only
men but animals were tried for
murder when they killed a human
being and, if ‘/guilty,” were exe
cuted. On a certain occasion a sow,
with her litter of suckling pigs, had
killed and eaten a young ch'ld. The
sow irocher and her offspring were
tried in court. The sow was con
demned to death, the little p>igs were
spared, on the ground that “be
cr.ust of t.’-pir extreme youth they
could not be held responsible.”
borve murderers have been
h r "'g l ! 'n the United States, with
intelligence not, far above that of
the suckling) pigs spared by mediae
val justice.
Among letters by George Wash
ington, to be sold in. London, one to
his Philadelphia dentist tells how
much trou! ;e Washington had with
his false teeth. They were strung
on wires ar.d got loose. They
looked about as natural, when he
wore them, as a set oi smail golf
balls, being cut out of solid ivory.
Civilization does not realize what
it owes to dentists and oculists,
good false teeth and good spec
tacles.
Think of the ancient Greeks, to
whom false teeth and eyeglasses
v/ere unknown. The marvel is that
so many of them lived to be old.
In a California decision, the Stute
Attorney-General forbids, in public
schools, even the Lord’s Prayer, in
the way of religion. There is no
doubt that the public school system
should teach the three R’s and other
positive knowledge, leaving religi
ous teaching to the discretion of
parents.
It is wise to keep all religious
teaching or favoritism out of pub
lic schools. On the other hand, it
is unwise, and an outrageous inter
ference with the rights of parents
to tell them that they cannot, at
their own expense, send their chil
dren to private or parochial schools
where religion is taught—provided
that educational requirements are
uiet.
Young man, do you want to be
rich and useful? Learn something
about electricity and try to invent
a light storage battery. Electricity,
which in itself weighs nothing, will
not always be carried about stored
in heavy metal, weighing as much
as the vehicle that the electricity
propels.
Don’t be discouraged by the fact
that you are not an electrical engi
neer or a scientist. Sometimes
knowing too much about a thing
prevents Beeing its possibilities
clearly. . , , ~
The man who invented the sew
ing machine couldn’t sew. His
whole idea was putting the needle s
“eye” at the point, of the needle in
stead of at the other end. An ex
pert seamstress svouhi have Eaid,
“That’s nonsense.”
A Filinh,o laborer, working in the
Hamakua sugar mill, in dead of bu
bonic plague in Hawaii.
rats infested with tho
plague have been caught.
How ‘-000 wUI our eTalted civili
zation, which gVky spends thou
c-ands of millions to kill other hu
v h--ngs. soerr’ h few neces
sary - llions to get rid of rats rmd
other dlsease-aprcaaing vermin l
Best Shoe Repairing at
Reasonable Prices. We havent
an agent in Comer hut we give
you his commission in quality
and workmanship. Try us once
and you will continue.
Yours for Service and Quality
Blue Ribbon Shoe Shop
156 College ave, Athens, (ia.
To Tits Members of Tiie Georgia Gntton
Growers Go-Oparetivo Association
We have necessary blank for
your use in and raw ing and ralts on As
sociatioa for advances on your cot
ton, also have a supply of shipping
tags, and will be pleased to have
*
you handle your cotton through
this bank.
We will draw your drafts,
and pay you cash on take draft for
deposit; without charge.
All business appreciated.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
The Peoples Bank
Comer Oa.
Child ren Cry for
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of
Proven directions on ea<di pack.ige. Physicians everywhere recommend ft*
Euigies, Wagons, Fane implements
MOWESS, RAKES, REPAH3, GRAIN 021113, PLOWS, BELLINC,
FAIRBANXS-MORSE ENGINES
NORRIS HARDWARE 6c IMPLEMENT CO*
'37A Broad St. Athens, Ua.