Show scholastic FADS AND FANCIES by REV JONES 1 I CORRIGAN S 13 boton t C coneg 11 9 is largely responsible for our inefficient M schools the teachers energies are scattered too much college C entrance boards and professors of freshmen in the colleges are wondering why boys and girls newly arrived from high school cannot write simple english sentences the fads fada find and fancies of the mag unification program have squandered valuable time that should b have ave been devoted to educational essential american individualism must make a stand against further enlargement of state functions in the schools the mam ma magnification m ficat iori process ha has progressed so far alread already y that roan man functions p roper proper to the ho home nc hav leavo been ta taken kenover over by the schools not only have we free schools and free books but free lunch free clothes and free transportation in the schools the state inoculates the children against smallpox insures them against toothache examines thorn them for eyestrain searches their inward parts for adenoids aden then there are trained nurses to inspect their food to supery supervise ise their digestion to feel their eulac to test their sputum the trend is clearly socialistic itis it is weakening their sturdy american individualism without which democracy dies magnification is responsible for our luxurious expensive high school plants when thousands of our younger children are still housed in mi miserable i ser portables it is expensive wasteful and inefficient it is a vicious policy resulting from paternal ignorance or indifference to school diat matters if 11 taxes are high and the cost of living is A high the m magnification am of the state in the educational sphere is a partial explanation of both |