| Show SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MONEY ono pupil in new york acted as the family bank where do school children get all the money they take to school was asked a new york teacher who was worrying over the frequent thefts from the pupils in her room 1 I don t know she said the situ atlon la puzzling it Is a fact that almost every child brings money to school many of them have only a cent to buy a doughnut 0 a stick of candy but others carry surprisingly large sums biot long ago the charge of theft were so frequent in my room that I 1 tried to stop this universal carrying of money I 1 asked the moth era not to give their children money during school hours except in cases where it was really needed to buy luncheon many of them promised to cut off the allowance but the small coins continued to circulate just the same A few mothers declared that they gave the children money tor eaf keeping I 1 learned that one girl in my class came to school day after day with from 20 to 30 pinned in her clothes the father spent everything he could lay his hands on and as the little girl a garments were the only place where he could never find the money she was converted into the family bank the plan seemed to work so tar as y the spendthrift father was concerned but it worried the teacher |
