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Show value of parent-teacher movementIs portrayed by president of organization By -MILDRED JARVIS President, P.-T. Association Increased interest is being shown in the Parent-Teacher association in Springville this winter. The association as-sociation now includes the high school as well as the elementary and primary grades. That means that every parent in Springville should be actively interested in the association, as well as every teacher. teach-er. No other organization in the city claims the membership of every parent and of every teacher. With such a membership the strength and influence of the association asso-ciation should be felt in each home, each school, and in the community. paramount interest, v,in education today, and his mental, moral,-physical, and social well-being must be assured if he is to become a productive pro-ductive member of our future civilization, civ-ilization, the parents and the home must be well informed in order to cooperate with the teacher and the school in solving the problems which are constantly arising. Appeal of P.-T. Movement To educators: 1. No improvement in school conditions is possible until a strong public opinion approves and demands de-mands it. No group can so successfully influence in-fluence public opinion and public A month ago a large and appreciative appre-ciative audience was in attendance when Prof. A. C. Lambert of the department of school administration administra-tion of the B. Y. U., gave a most instructive lecture on very vital problems concerning the schools and the homo. Every parent and teacher present felt a greater personal per-sonal responsibility to each child in the home and in the school. Tonight we are to be favored with another lecture which will be of interest to every wide-awake citizen. Prof. T. Earl Pardoe, head of the speech department of the B. Y. U., will be the speaker. With his years of training and experience ex-perience he will have something of real value to give us on reading and speech in our schools. We urge you all to take advantage of the opportunity of hearing him. That you might know the real significance of the Parent-Teacher association, that which we want it to come to mean to every parent and every teacher, we quote the following - from the Handbook of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers: Purpose of Association "If you want a child to be successful suc-cessful in life, give him splendid health, sanity cf vision, capacity for work, and a wholesome attitude toward life. Such work is true educationa edu-cationa joint partnership of the home, school and community a training not of the mind alone, but of every activity of the child. To realize this ideal we have found that the school cannot operate alone, unrelated to the home from which the child comes, or the community com-munity into which the child must fit himself in later life. There must be cooperation or partnership of home, school and community, and to meet this need no organization organiza-tion can function better than the parent-teacher association. It is necessary, in working out a program for such an organization, to keep in mind the fact that the organization will be of value only if it meets the needs of its particular particu-lar community, and attacks the problems of vital importance to the welfare of the children of the i local school and neighborhood. ) Since the - child's welfare is the school officials as an enthusiastic. Interested group of parents. No parents can be enthusiastic and interested in school improvements improve-ments unless they know conditions and possibilities for improvement. There is no better way to acquaint ac-quaint parents with school conditions condi-tions and arouse their interest in improvements than through a parent-teacher association which meets regularly to consider such matters. 2. The united strength of a group of parents and teachers is double i the' strength of an organization composed exclusively of either parents par-ents or teachers. 3. Full and free discussions of general school problems in a meeting meet-ing of parents and teachers often solves, without friction, petty individual indi-vidual difficulties. Discipline usually becomes easy when a child realizes that father, mother and teacher not only understand under-stand each other but are working together. Acquaintance with parents makes possible a more intelligent understanding under-standing on the part of the teacher teach-er of the children's nee'ds and potentialities. po-tentialities. Intelligent understanding by the parents of the work and methods of the school usually helps to develop a loyalty among the children, and the teacher's efforts become more fruitful. Holding regular meetings of parents par-ents and teachers on fixed dates saves time and energy. If parents are in sympathy with tho school authorities, desirable reforms re-forms are more eagily effected, as, for example, simplified dress, chaperoned chap-eroned events, and reform of other-extravagant other-extravagant pupil practices. If parents come to know the teadhers in a sympathetic way, the criticism of outsiders will be met by these parents and disposed of in its incipiency. The same will be true of tales carried home by the children. Parents who know will set children right in their judgment of work and management. This will make the teacher's task much easier. To parents: Such a meeting enables the par-continued par-continued on Pago FpurX VALUEOFP.T.A. TOLD BY OFFICIAL (Continued from Page One) ents to become acquainted with the schools, its teachers, and its work, thus making possible a more intelligent treatment of complaints and criticisms that may be brought home from ' time to time by the pupils. It enables the parents to become acquainted with one another in a new way in the presence of the teachers. They learn new aspects of the characters of their neighbors and come to understand better and deal more intelligently with the criticisms and complaints of thJ neighbors aimed at the school, the teachers and their methods. It enables the parents to cooperate co-operate intelligently with any new methods the school authorities are i introducing. It gives parents the assurance that their help is appreciated appre-ciated and is effective. Community betterment is more sure of achievement from this union of home and school. The program and discussions of such meetings open the eyes of many parents to opportunities and privileges they had never before realized. Parents come to recognize recog-nize their responsibilities not only to the school, but to the home as well." If through the conscientious efforts ef-forts of the school administrators, the teachers, and the parents, the children of our community can be given a more efficient training and a more wholesome attitude toward life, is a Parent-Teacher association associa-tion worth our support? Should we not sonse more fully our possibilities possi-bilities and our responsibilities to the children of our district.' Surely there is need of an awakening. |