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Show MRS. JARVIS GIVES VIEWS ONR T. A. "The purpose of the Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher association is to bring the school and the community closer together in order that through cooperative co-operative effort the public schools may become more effective and the interests of the child better safeguarded safe-guarded and advanced." Thus Mildred B. Jarvis, president of the Springville Parent-Teacher association, sets forth the purpose of an organization that is doing much to weld a finer cooperation between the home and the school than any other. "The home and the community must have direct and truthful information in-formation about the schools. The school must know the home and the community from- which its pupils come. Only where such knowledge is prevalent can there exist that cooperation to which the opening statement refers. An uninformed un-informed public is a hindrance to, the progress of the school, because be-cause schools cannot rise above the conception of their function by the social group. "Likewise school which is not familiar with the community and that which is rightfully theirs honest and intelligent interest in their individual growth and development. devel-opment. - "The- responsibility of promoting a condition wherein true cooperation coopera-tion may exist rests heavily upon the school administrators as well as on the parents. The public is a folio wer of leaders. It is only right that it should look to the district dis-trict superintendent, principal and teachers as leaders. Without a doubt these administrators find it less difficult to reach and hold the public when they take the initiative initia-tive in linking the school with the home and the community. The public will always respond to capable leadership." |