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Show i HER WELL-MERITED REPROOF Rebuke of Boston Teacher Must Almost Al-most Have Broken the Heart of Little Sammy Parker. A well-known educator tells of a school of advanced ideas in Boston, wherein no pupil is ever punished in any way, the individuality of every child being held too sacred for repression. repres-sion. One day, it appears, soon after her entrance into this school, one little girl came home with a face wet with tears and her mouth covered with blood. The mother was greatly alarmed, and, taking the child into her arms, asked what had happened. The story of what had happened was sobbed out to the sympathetic mother. One Sammy Parker, it seemed, had struck the little girl and knocked out a couple of teeth. When the unfortunate youngster had been restored to equanimity her father, fa-ther, who had in the meantime put in an appearance, naturally enough wanted want-ed to know how the teacher had dealt with Sammy. "She didn't do anything." "Well, what did she say?" , "She called Sammy to her desk and said: 'Samuel, don't you know that was very antisocial?' " Harper's Magazine. |