Show interested parent answers supt bupt dear editor parents view analyzed is tho the caption under which appeared in last weeks issue bupt EM E M whitesides answer to my article in some weeks previous in which I 1 suggested ta ested that certain funda fundamental mental work iu in our school system seemed to be ne neglected lecter the supt bupt seems to have an intuition that I 1 was not honest in my expressions and facetiously accuses me of drawing an exaggerated ca cartoon artoon an and d of fighting in t windmills in my reply I 1 wish it understood that I 1 give mr whitesides credit for bein being honest in what lie he says I 1 do not object to the supt bupt s looking upon the picture I 1 drew as a cartoon since cartooning cartoon ing is one of the in most ost forc eible means of ex expressing pressing a ra general genera I 1 truth tho the term fi fighting 0 biting windmills is in a sense quite apropos since there seems to be consid considerable drable of the weather vano vane policy in the school system its first this way and that chat way I 1 or as the supt bupt admits to the right then to the left encumbered with a good many some things that retard and resist its progress supt bupt says that my argument in favor of thoroughness C drill nd moro more memory work rests on a of single in C le exaggerated case out 61 17 in the county pie he certainly would not expect me as a parent to mention other peoples children nor has he the right to assume that because others like my daughter were not mentioned there aro ara none I 1 assumed my seventh grade girl to be an avera average e in her grade because her report cards of last two or three years 0 give her cred it for from F to tov V G fair to very good in her classes this year hor her teacher tolls tells me she is a good fair average in ta the ae class taking these reports then and tes testing ti n her in reading spelling number work etc I 1 should have a fair example of the of i her class I 1 have leave talked with a good many parents since writing before and I 1 can assure our oar doubting supt honest fact no e exaggeration that I 1 am not lot alone i in n my complaints pla ints A very interested mother told mo me not long a ago 0 that her 2nd and grade boy got E excellent on his report in almost every study mouth month after month last year and that to use her own words the he dont know nothing she actual actually ly have patience to hoar him try to read A prominent anent business man of kaysville Kays ville not long ago remarked in my presence that in his experience with eighth 0 grade graduates and he had watched them closely lie he had found that not half of them could properly address an envelope ope to say nathin nothing 0 f writing a letter co correctly it was not my purpose in writ in ng my last article to argue that the he school system as a whole is not bettor better today than it was when I 1 went to school I 1 believe it has made great proc progress gress but I 1 am still convinced from futher inquiry amongst parents and teachers that drills in number work spelling 0 the rudiments of reading and memory work generally donot do not receive sufficient attention As a parent of course I 1 am not sufficiently posted upon the school work courses of study et etc C to say where the fault lies whether with the system or the teachers I 1 can only judge from results attained by my own own children and from inquiry amongst others I 1 have visited schools occasionally occasion alIv but like other parents not a as often as I 1 should I 1 believe that most patrons of the school in our farmin farming communities muni ties at least desire that the work be practical i in order to bo be practical it must be thorough 0 b ready and accurate interested |